You, The Woodworker! Yes You!
…self study and research put real flesh on the bones. Here is the outcome of another persons work. She has about 250 hours of mixed work in the making and…
…self study and research put real flesh on the bones. Here is the outcome of another persons work. She has about 250 hours of mixed work in the making and…
As a boy I peered into tool chests filled with some of the most beautiful tools ever made in the history of tool making. They were all hand made, of…
…that, well, just get, hmm, is pilfered the word I’m looking for or does that diminish the reality of straight-out thievery? In my life making and teaching, training others and…
…handsaw. I feel a certain pride in what we are all doing because somehow it validates what I once could only dreamed of. Making woodworkers is as much a creative…
…integrity of real wood. If you are indeed making ‘fashionable’ styles, that are built for disposability, IKEA but not just IKEA, then there is a place for it. Otherwise, it…
…diverse forms ranging from bow making and making fishing rods to furniture making and wood turning. In their case it was their hobby and not a means of support to…
Assumptions often mislead us; our own and others. In a world more and more devoid of crafting artisans, men and women making to live by, working as I have and…
…money from a mass-making market. In essence, what is mostly needed and will better place us is to go to the origin to see exactly what the spirit of intent…
…they say it if you are just making one of something. The work I do is never mass made so I choose not to use equipment designed for mass-making because…
…saw, mortising machine, tenoner, and others. This, for me, does not constitute nor does it mean handmade at all. Mostly, it more likely means hand-assembled. Not too unlike making your…
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