George Goes the Extra Mile
…believe in it, Paul. Believe in yourself!” Drawing things out on wood as a note has become common all through my life. The plane works as an eraser for a…
…believe in it, Paul. Believe in yourself!” Drawing things out on wood as a note has become common all through my life. The plane works as an eraser for a…
…of magazine. Editors’ choice comes usually from someone who never really worked wood. A good example in the past was Fine Woodworking, but there were others too. Not with every…
…revolved around those elements that made my life a complete dedication to craft and the art of work; indeed, perhaps something that truly expressed the combining of whole-life daily activity….
…the critical components will be ‘free’ or ‘floating’ parts where some of the cponents are minimally a=or totally unharnessed. Tabletops can be the most ‘free’ parts in a piece in…
…free to expand and contract throughout its life and so it ‘floats’ in and out according to the relative humidity of the atmosphere surrounding the piece. Other panels are also…
…components. Metal, wood. plastic and composition materials ranging from bamboo resin bonded nutshells hybridise designs and much more. Chairs never cease to amaze me. But the one chair that does…
…a community and especially for the fine work they produced. Of course as machines evolved and became commercially available they started using them and even developing their own, but what…
…spewing stuff out to bring the price down to compete with companies whose sole business was a form of mass-making or another. This is a danger for us all. When…
…of all three components. The wood to all three components obviously compresses because the pressure is indeed is intense. The peg bends, compresses at the step between the wall misalignments…
…skills nor manual labour, they both require dexterity that comes through rote repetition with regular maintenance exercise. I doubt anyone could survive too well without computer skills to direct the…
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