Nostalgia or No?
…wooden components. I tried to imagine what would have come up with the Mary Rose had everything m[been made from MDF. Of course it’s a hideously characterless product developed yet…
…wooden components. I tried to imagine what would have come up with the Mary Rose had everything m[been made from MDF. Of course it’s a hideously characterless product developed yet…
…track. Though our audience comprises both professional and amateur woodworkers, the largest percentage of western woodworkers at least are indeed amateurs and the majority of them work in their single-car…
…USA, say around 1995, the majority of students coming to my class were over 50 and then the majority of those were indeed over 60, from more professional backgrounds and…
…is still lovely. I love that the moving parts are hand wrought races or hardened metal to hardened metal. Not complicated, just wear resistant. How can a handsaw handle evolve…
…good report but can’t. I’m now thinking Kunz #80 cabinet scraper and Two Cherries “Professional Quality” gent’s dovetail saw. Just how do suppliers do such devastating things? I know, it’s…
…is fitting for me to lead you and others along a similar passage. Unless you are commercial maker, something I never considered myself to be, or worse, a professional, also…
…free. That’s why commerce and so called professionals like to use MDF. MDF may lead to the kind of characterless products hiding under the guise of some sort of ‘Scandinavian’…
…achieve, and wanted to become woodworkers with skill. Most of my American students had very comprehensive workshops but most of them knew that they were machinists of wood and did…
…they all delivered some of the highest quality craftsmanship regardless of the dirt they stood on. It’s unfortunate that those levels of fine craftsmanship, craftsmanship commonly held amongst the more…
…see if you have nothing to compare to you might accept such lack of common sense stating as some kind of dark arts wisdom. Self experimentation, trial and error, will…
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