Search Results for: My minimalist tool list

…the list comprises the normal individual tools I might use for laying out joints, followed then by tools to cut them with, surface plane and perhaps keep the tools sharp…

…that communication is more about listening than whatever I might say. Mostly it’s something I’ve learnt from working with my wood and especially that using my hand tools. I have…

…tools were diminishing and the almighty so-called power-tool woodworking was rushing ahead completely unchallenged and seemingly unstoppable. At that time, when I arrived stateside in the mid to late 1980s,…

…shelves, ledges, tills, sills, inside cupboards and drawers and inside the tools themselves. We don’t get very much dust because of this protocol. Tools and tool care There are different…

…neat and admirable backdrop too. But we thought it actually gives people following us the wrong impression. My message for three decades has been more minimalist in terms of what…

…second book, Essential Woodworking Hand Tools. There is a story in that too. Perhaps I will get to it later. The three-legged stool above came from eight hand tools. They…

…perhaps. I’m joking, but my tools do give me a measure of security, just not volumes of them. Many of these tools were indeed collectable and though tools that I…