Times Change Craft
…ever-shifting culture to pave a way to betterment. My reasons too have changed. As a perpetual maker, I began to shift, not from making but to expand in my making…
…ever-shifting culture to pave a way to betterment. My reasons too have changed. As a perpetual maker, I began to shift, not from making but to expand in my making…
…I will make again. I’m working through the booklets I wrote 15 and 20-plus years ago as is John. He is just about finishing up making five-pointed stars as I…
…issues to stay and keep others safe. From the bench to the stars, inlaid coasters and now the joiner’s traveling toolbox, John has regained his passion to perform. So far…
…something as, well, making a sale. What a strange thing to say, ‘making a sale’. In my world of making to date I have spent over 16,500 ten-hour days, that’s…
…when I decided that mass-making and using mass-making methods gelled much less with the lifestyle I was aiming for. I felt that equipment like power routers seemed less and less…
…of plane making by deskilling the methods and types of production. The evolution of mass-making, as it so often does, reduced the care a craftsman might place on his and…
I don’t think that we should ever lose sight of some basic but very interesting realities with regard to the craft of hand-making furniture and other woodwork. How often do…
Two and a half months have passed already, imagine! We makers just keep making and making keeps us both safe and sane. I’ve got three rockers under my belt, together…
…making the rocking chair and the toolbox and the coffee table. That’s what this blog is about. Sharing your workspace, time, wood and tools with others and making friends creates…
…woodworkers learned part or the whole of what they know from watching others, reading about it or following one-on-one instruction. There is nothing wrong with that. From making half a…