Contributing to the Real Woodworking Campaign
Am I less of a realist if I choose life working as a craftsman and reject mass making methods, products, methods and materials? That’s what people, thankfully only a few…
Am I less of a realist if I choose life working as a craftsman and reject mass making methods, products, methods and materials? That’s what people, thankfully only a few…
…is right and wrong with their tool. I give them six months to correct any error and if they do make corrections I recommend the tool without the statement of…
…I listened and watched and the woodworker took a knife from his pocket, a bobbin of cotton string and a needle from a tobacco tin and then took off one…
…tools to test out and compare. I don’t think that I would always listen to magazine gurus and forum debates and neither would I altogether dismiss what they say either….
…one to buy is this or that maker, I am afraid we would lose more woodworkers in the confusion of biased opinion and pluralist choices than we would gain. …
…why and we can’t often explain the whys and the wherefores, but wood, work, tools (not machines but real tools) and other related equipment must somehow connect for us. …
…now than yesterday. I watch, listen. They do too. The atmosphere was charged with expectation yesterday. Today its different. Anticipation is different than hope. Hope was what they came with…
Should I tell you that a plain Jane #4 plane with no retrofit irons, specialist cap irons or dead flat soles is of equal value to the beastly heavyweights engineers…
…Most people look back in time as they enter, smell, watch and listen. A man stayed behind after the others left. He held out his hand and said, “I have…
…the confinement governed by efficient workability. Creating order is often something the individualist artisan resists as much as cleaning up and putting things away. Factors that govern many decisions are…