More on Making – Design Concepts
…my early signature details. The rails separating the drawers comprised hidden aspects to the internal joinery but through tenons cross-wedged on the outside. I have always liked this feature because…
…my early signature details. The rails separating the drawers comprised hidden aspects to the internal joinery but through tenons cross-wedged on the outside. I have always liked this feature because…
…they can’t comprehend. Remember that they cannot even see what I am talking about let alone understand how anyone can want to work with their hands and produce skilled and…
…strokes each man made and what I thought to be irreconcilable damage left from the machine planers or hand planes was immediately transformed into a silky smoothness that felt, well,…
…on their own, but you know, there comes a point when you do feel competent and you know what you made is good. I was 17 when that happened. I…
I look through my journals of ten years ago and enjoy reading what I was doing on the equivalent day compared to today. Ten years ago I was teaching and…
Someone asked me to comment on the Stanley 62 bevel up plane and give my view. I suspect it will be the same as any bevel up plane of its…
…too often we fail to realise that clamps misaligned to the long axis of the rails will clamp frames out of square because they will compress the stile fibres into…
…I used a more viscous super-glue (Cyanoacrylate) and accelerator to set the glue almost immediately on contact. It worked perfectly first time. Applying the glue to one half and spraying…
…come or go or to “set your stall out”. You own everything. This is the wonderful thing about being a lifestyle woodworker, otherwise known as an amateur. You get to…
…not to own a copy lathe or a CNC router to make for me that which I can do well in a minute or two by my freewill and freehand….
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