Future emerging artisanry for all
Our educating culture has spent over fifty years dumbing down craft education to mere hobbies or pastimes despite the reality that all children and young people of every age when…
Our educating culture has spent over fifty years dumbing down craft education to mere hobbies or pastimes despite the reality that all children and young people of every age when…
Since you asked for suggestions; I would really like to get some advice on blockplanes and your take on them. I imagine that a low angle one would be handy?…
Paul, Met you at the Baltimore show and really enjoyed conversing with you. I signed up for the April class the other day. Really looking forward to that. Anyway, you…
Shooting boards Shooting boards from times past came in all shapes and sizes. In 2006 I wrote an article for Popular Woodworking (USA). They only wanted three pages but it…
Don’t neglect quiet times walking in the woods or the park near your work. Even on weekends in the woodshop it’s always good to connect with the wood in its…
Raising panels again with #4 plane I spent more time in the workshop working on my US toolbox. I made the framed lid by running the grooves, mortise and tenoning…
Axe Hard, steel Swinging, cutting, splitting Log, large, rive, spindle Shaving, chiseling, shaping Soft, smooth Wood…
A bevy of planes made by Phil Edwards I have told you that all metal planes bend and can be flexed in use. It’s only a thousandth on a jack…
Showing the strength of a splined joint FYI. This for those who watched me making the moulded and mitred joint. A few weeks ago I experimented with the strength of…
Sharpening and honing a #80 scraper There are those who want to sharpen their #80 scrapers and are intimidated by the prospect. It takes a certain confidence to freehand them…