I Bought This Saw
…handle, with my own yet to come, so as many owners did not stamp their names, it could well be more. Firstly I planed of the damaged horn with a…
…handle, with my own yet to come, so as many owners did not stamp their names, it could well be more. Firstly I planed of the damaged horn with a…
…When my bench looks like the picture above I immediately clean up and I never procrastinate on the issue. Mostly it’s following a period of working diligently for an hour…
…attitude for apprenticing and to come under the authority of those who would take me under their wings and make me what I was not. Coming into an apprenticeship thinking…
…and pronunciations and the English ways: sidewalk = pavement; pavement = road, carpark = parking lot and then you come to stain. Many US woodworkers refer to finish as stain…
…with a more spongy resistance where the wood compresses markedly until the compressing wood springs back into the cutting edge. Think Newton’s law of third motion. The hardness of a…
…than perhaps commission work does. All too often commissions have price limits and deadlines. making some pieces without a sale using wood no one else has ever seen allows a…
Out at the Wood Centre this coming Saturday Phil and I hold our second English workshop, a full-day on sharpening and restoring planes and saws. It’s another packed class of…
…is some of the dilemma I have found in my research. I recently discovered that my friend Tom had found a local sharpening company that used and sold saw files…
…come out with a decent looking saw and compete in an open market. Joel Finkel and I tested out the LN and the S&J together. This article prefaces the comparison…
…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…
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