Ramblings again
…in the zone of making to make me efficient throughout my work. My ability to freehand gave me the edge over those using machine-only methods in many key areas like…
…in the zone of making to make me efficient throughout my work. My ability to freehand gave me the edge over those using machine-only methods in many key areas like…
…the bulk of making was making using hand tools and you quickly see the economy of making using body energy only. The unseen parts beneath drawers and the insides of…
…be the best. My reason for passing it on was of course to ensure its future in the tradition of would be craftsmen making their own as had happened with…
…with the grace of a swan. There are times when I think of a loss that happened in years past when the grieving brought healing and my making resumed. A…
…when I decided that mass-making and using mass-making methods gelled much less with the lifestyle I was aiming for. I felt that equipment like power routers seemed less and less…
This week I made an oak baby’s cot, or at least I began making my granddaughter’s cot for when she arrives. It’s oak, only because I had saved some specially…
…of plane making by deskilling the methods and types of production. The evolution of mass-making, as it so often does, reduced the care a craftsman might place on his and…
…woodworkers we’ve done for years. Furniture making, woodworking and wood turning have always been my great passion and of course that also includes carpentry and bench joinery too. It’s comprehensive…
…I made (and others filmed its making) it in about 2 hours, replete with half-lap dovetails, housing dadoes and a through-tenoned back. Tonight it’s glued up and in the clamps…
…curve of a fine gouge and the spokeshave, has been my way out from mass making and the mass making methodology surrounding it. It, my lifestyle creating lovely things, has…
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