To Exercise or Not?
…mean spirited making children lose heart by the insistence on rote repetition. Week on week the children were discouraged and by the time the kids got to a project they…
…mean spirited making children lose heart by the insistence on rote repetition. Week on week the children were discouraged and by the time the kids got to a project they…
…saddened by the creativity of a man that would spend half a day making jigs for machines to cut dovetails that could have been completed by hand in no more…
…much time. In making these you make four (or more) at once so I think making them hits the mark for me. I wanted something new, unseen and novel so…
…when I picked up my plane to swipe of shavings I found myself yet again out in the stratosphere soaring for an hour. It’s when I start making joints with…
…design first, and then long-term wear. And it’s plate tapers too, like the more modern taper-ground saws of the 1900s, but this one tapers by wear not from its making….
I designed this tool box as an apprentice project for training them in door making , box making construction, drawer making, raised panel construction. From fitting recessed hinges to lock…
…do yet, but he is a willing apprentice artisan and that makes all the difference. Chairmaking is one aspect of furniture making I find most woodworkers avoid, mostly because of…
…fine instrument making to furniture making and more. Why, until then, the term was never used I don’t know, but now, at last, my students got it. We went for…
I am almost through the series on making a beautiful stepladder. What makes a stepladder beautiful? It’s beautiful because I made it with my own hands, my own power, my…
… A Garden Bench I’m making a garden bench. So far it’s taken me a day to cut all the wood, plane it, cut the parts out, joint the 10…
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