Crispness
…left and the bend on the other. Crispness comes in things we least expect––and then too, as if to surprise us the more, at times we least expect. There comes…
…left and the bend on the other. Crispness comes in things we least expect––and then too, as if to surprise us the more, at times we least expect. There comes…
…from wooden components together. Violin makers still use hide glue in making traditional instruments like violins and cellos and also for repairing them. Why is that? Simple really; these instruments…
…work and design was never repeated. Mostly design was dumbed down to what comes easily off a machine. That’s what machines and CNC efforts have reduced creativity and life art…
…oak for a good combination in providing heat for free. I liked to harvest the wood from wind-blown trees which were plentiful in south Texas. Juniperus ashei (Ashe Juniper) is…
…Hopefully that information will be unbiased and free, easily assimilated into the new-genre woodworker and put an end to a pluralist confusion surrounding working workbenches driven and steered by gurus…
…myself, but most of the guys who fawn over hand woodworking have never even finished a complete piece, where I finish many in a single week.” I receive such comments…
I have never yet seen a machine cut recess that gets as flaw-free a surface as the spear-point bit (I’m sure they are out there but not as affordable as…
…Open House weekend and combined with the day to day demands of our effort that can come at a price as you all will know. Paul’s not exempt from the…
…that comes from the whole tree. This is wholly misleading. Crotch-grain and the wood surrounding knots and so on is wood in tension and compression caused by the weight of…
. . . by their cover. My wood stacks come from long planks that needed straightening for joints before joints could be made. The joints rely on straight edges to…
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