Restoring maker’s tools
…Pristine! It is a treasure and an example of mastery in handmaking hand tools. It was made by C S Johnson of Sheffield. All of Vicente’s tools were his grandfather’s…
…Pristine! It is a treasure and an example of mastery in handmaking hand tools. It was made by C S Johnson of Sheffield. All of Vicente’s tools were his grandfather’s…
…Busy people come and go and here I am eating breakfast and starting my day at 10am. It’s nice to get your cup refilled at no cost past the first…
…with this Canadian company of toolmakers. There’s a human element of care and carefulness, of orderliness in the workplace and much more. As I walked through the manufacturing facility I…
…woodworking strike for us folks. In Mike’s booth there are dozens of examples of his sculpting and carving skills. You rarely see this many pieces in one place and he…
I recall a time when a chest over 200 years old made from solid oak by the hands of a craftsman would have been revered as an example of the…
…world of industry and commerce or perhaps those mysterious worlds of entrepreneurial enterprise where words and phrases enhance self-esteem and free thinking movers and shakers write about but do nothing…
…Woodworking Shows show. It’s an eBay find for £8 – $12. This plane is and always was an amazing tool in and of itself with no retrofits of metal components…
…or not, in certain ways. As a very brief example most men working wood a hundred years ago sharpened their own saws. If, like me, they used a simple saw…
…could see what I expect from an eBay supplier. Both of the planes were indeed good examples of what I wanted to show them and I dismantled the #4 immediately…
…science lab or a fitted kitchen. Fancy woods and complex tool boxes are more often examples if fine work beyond the skill of those discovering themselves and so I will…
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