What a Week!
…the house keys from the previous owners and I couldn’t think of anything else but a dream is finally coming to pass! Walking around the house with Joseph made me…
…the house keys from the previous owners and I couldn’t think of anything else but a dream is finally coming to pass! Walking around the house with Joseph made me…
…as crafting artisans, we must begin at some point to exercise our whole being on a more than regular basis. Competitive Sport I’m competitive, but not at all a…
…building the workbench has established the down-to-earth workbench everyone needed to get seriously into hand tools. Seeing pictures coming in of complete and part completed benches is my great reward….
…if they are out there in the hills somewhere. I have no competition except low prices offered by big box stores and dealers of furniture, which is no competition at…
…form or video, on woodworkingmasterclasses.com or commonwoodworking.com. It is my belief that anyone new to woodworking that is willing to invest in a cluster of secondhand tools, some wood, and…
…‘n’ a strummin’ (but mostly ‘chewin the fat‘) at the end of a woodworking show. I began to see that was common to me was not at all common to…
…wider the tenon the longer the mortise hole. It is common practice to use twin tenons at around 6” in width. So when you approach that width you begin…
I think planing wood is quite a troublesome and complex aspect of our working of wood but the good thing is that for every fibre-tearing, grain-ripping stroke of negative pain…
…reward of good work isn’t the financial income at all. Income has no measure compared to the enjoyment you gain from seeing something completed come from a tree. You start…
…When wood married metal in the making of tools more specialised makers adopted specific areas of making that raised the bar in their craft. By competitive making, those who made…
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