In the Beginning
…both. Making has always been a serious part of my life. I picked it for that reason. Metal, wood, leather, fibres. It’s all the same. Craft takes two-dimensionality from its…
…both. Making has always been a serious part of my life. I picked it for that reason. Metal, wood, leather, fibres. It’s all the same. Craft takes two-dimensionality from its…
…I think, I read in an issue of Fine Woodworking where a person wrote to FW for an answer on an aspect of chairmaking. The question went: Q: I’m making…
…ended up redirecting my energies to different channels of work that took out the physical demand my furniture-making with hand tools relies constantly on. Many in my audience worldwide advised…
Making this rocking chair has been rich reward for me. I’ve created some unusual and unlikely methods that contradict tradition and wisdom, lightened up the design, and simplified the alternative…
…making, the sharpness of my tools that are sharpened before they become in any way consciously dull and because the tools I use are customised by me for me. The…
We just concluded the opening woodworkingmasterclasses series on dovetail making. I customized the intro projects to make them interesting because I thought making them had greater value as an opening…
I wrote recently on beech wood and spoke of what I might see and describe as more soulless methods of making in the sense and mix of it giving very…
…poor-man’s tool for making the pins to dead size at no cost. It’s one thing making the dowels but making the square ends and fitting them to the recess might…
…something special about making a workbench no matter how many you have made. Including the workbench building classes, making workbenches for the schools I have started and then building benches…
These twins came together this week. In the process of design, I go to great lengths to ensure we don’t have too many issues in the filming of making them…
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