Educating Lazy Owners . . .
…day-to-day. We make not competitively but individually according to various dynamics. Someone once said to me, “You can’t compete with Walmart!” I waited for a few seconds, looked them in…
…day-to-day. We make not competitively but individually according to various dynamics. Someone once said to me, “You can’t compete with Walmart!” I waited for a few seconds, looked them in…
…that lay silently unfathomed in fibres they will never know of nor understand. So, yet again, I needed the wood and could well use the discarded and free resource offered…
I’ve commented on inexpensive tools available to woodworkers because sometimes it is false economy to buy something that seems cheap because it seems inevitable that the tool or equipment will…
…Woodworking Shows show. It’s an eBay find for £8 – $12. This plane is and always was an amazing tool in and of itself with no retrofits of metal components…
…to look at both what we make and how we make. I am sure it might well irk the puritan traditionalists to consider third party components to hold things we…
…wide. I stood it on end, slipped cardboard between the car and the pallet, tilted the pallet and slid it easily onto my roof bars. At the shop, I reversed…
. . . the Plane With Teeth Here’s another rambling from my mid-night, overtime excursions where I explore issues once common to woodworkers and write best twixt 3 am and…
…I can expand on some things a littler more with my reasoning here too. Also, go to commonwoodworking.com if you are new to or relatively new to hand tool woodworking….
…example, would you reach for a Veritas router over your Stanley #71? Or one of their custom planes over your Stanley #4? As you say, this is not an either/or…
My favourite ideas have come from my teaching my craft, working with my apprentices and then too with students on courses where they just weren’t getting it but thought that…
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