Obsessing Flatness Can be Unreal
…plane irons, spokeshave irons are the primary edge tools in working with wood for furniture making. I’ll leave out draw knives and axes here — we don’t really use them…
…plane irons, spokeshave irons are the primary edge tools in working with wood for furniture making. I’ll leave out draw knives and axes here — we don’t really use them…
…instrument in the same room. Time stops for some Violin making knows no such thing as time constraint in the realms others might find at least. A bit like making…
…without the idea of personally making money from them or future ones. I’m thinking this to be a benevolent piece. I want to give them away or if they are…
…is all about. Making furniture that absolutely fits in every room that’s there and that for me as a maker designer means designing the pieces to fit the space and…
…size on up to large chests and even cases like the ones I am making now, the saw kerf adds good advantage; there are the fibrous surfaces which translates into…
…to me, it’s also much more than that. Mostly the world has changed drastically and people seem less engaged in the making of things and therefore less apt to care…
Christmas in the US starts after Thanksgiving Thursday for the busiest shopping day of the year (USA), but for those of us living around the rest of the globe making…
…hand tools and making the three most commonly used woodworking joints. The school was to grow to a year-round school in a matter of just months. All the benches and…
…joints and not assembly parts for mass making, there has to be the question of personal integrity. The line for me is drawn here. If I am making a piece…
…like that? Well, no, it isn’t. Not at all. More that, within this sphere of life, making and creating something equips me to cope. Somehow, for decades to date, the…
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