Making the More of Things
…information for anyone starting out as well as exercises; here’s the link for projects and helps in providing clear instruction and support common woodworking.com . We follow up with woodworking…
…information for anyone starting out as well as exercises; here’s the link for projects and helps in providing clear instruction and support common woodworking.com . We follow up with woodworking…
…and CEO of the Canadian company Lee Valley & Veritas. Mr Lee birthed the company that became the woodworker’s household name throughout North America with many stores in his native…
…large pores, oak, readily compress whereas others just don’t compress in any measure at all. Most of our temperate woods, both hard and soft, will compress and it’s getting to…
…the opportunity to make any true comparisons on a variety of tools inntruly practical ways before they commit to a purchase and even then this might not be enough. The…
I think sometimes, often, we fail to see the unionising of different joints, failing to devise our own types but then how best to combine them in projects. My research…
…from that then I would likely die from starvation. Now that I have the completed design fleshed out into a completed, fully tested version, I could start to make a…
…its true power. Resolve can mean to melt, dissolve, reduce to liquid; separate into component parts; alter, alter in form or nature by application of physical process. In the intransitive…
…is completely natural and comes from the excreted juices of the lac bug. Some lacquers come from tree roots and again are completely natural. Sprayed, rubbed or brushed, these are…
…soon find rest in; the only time wood is truly organised is when it comes together as a composition in a finished piece of well-crafted work. Storm-split wood defies man’s…
…is compression bruising that shows that the tenons were deliberately cut over width by a surprising amount. In this case the depressed internal surfaces are 1/16” compressed. That seems a…
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