More of My Beginnings As a Craftsman, Teacher and Educator
…2 foot by 5 foot workbench and two dozen hand tools in a small toolbox I felt just right. Some people outright laughed at me whereas others chuckled, giggled, smirked…
…2 foot by 5 foot workbench and two dozen hand tools in a small toolbox I felt just right. Some people outright laughed at me whereas others chuckled, giggled, smirked…
…what we have taught thus far. Tool cupboards and dining chairs, tool chests and toolboxes, clocks, pencil boxes. The of course there are the tools and techniques I learned as…
…on Common Woodworking, we recommend the following projects: Desktop Organiser Wallclock How to Make a Table When building the workbench, you will need a support so we recommend making some trestles first….
…Made in the USA. Within three years all of the stickers were gone, replaced with Made in China. I was still there making 25 years on. My sticker said British…
…a boy-toy of old as some erroneously say. Thankfully, back then, they were thinking differently. No “big boy toys” or Prizecut toolbox saws, Ergo and, stupidly, Cobra and, even more…
…have a saleable commodity. If we had a choice, mine would be the opening of a toolbox sealed by a man sometime in the late 1800s. One day these tools…
…who might think that they could never do it for a host of reasons including not having money, ability, learning disorders and so on. The toolbox i am building from…
…the toolboxes to bed and started the rocking chair, but I also dismantled some large pallet wood for building my winter garden project, a new greenhouse. This will be 8…
…political unrest with three-day workweeks and the threat of nuclear war twixt the then world powers. What’s changed? I was glad though for one thing–my craft of woodworking and making…
…soft blush on the end of his toolbox carcass. I wasn’t examining his dovetails, it was a certain level of perfection that caught my eye. Perfection for me comes in…
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