One door closes and many more open
…Hard to imagine but back then, in that first class, I never thought the outreach would be so wide. An email comes in now and again from someone I taught…
…Hard to imagine but back then, in that first class, I never thought the outreach would be so wide. An email comes in now and again from someone I taught…
Where do I get a flattening plate? Note: Links in this article are for UK It looks like the thing to search for is a granite surface plate. The other…
…though it was the lesser common type on the larger size. I wanted a wider bevel-edged chisel made by Marples or Ward—what might now be referred to as a ‘vintage‘…
…everything to unload it. Unusually, the pallet was screwed together with sheetrock screws. Dismantling was a five-minute job and then the screws too will come in useful. Passing through a…
…occupation. You decide the reasons. Lack of time, time is money, fierce competition, lack of good materials, machine-only methods, unskilled labour. The list can go on. I think it is…
…to go. The issue for me comes when business woodworkers abandon all handwork and then diss hand methods without ever having tried hand methods. I met a serious furniture maker…
. . . shadows of the past. I’m often surprised by the clarity we have when something we did in the past comes back to us with such clarity yet…
…You see, people pass from bench to bench and watch each other as they work in a machine-free environment. Interaction is much greater and camaraderie come from them talking to…
…difference in quality between the two planes I tested, but I only tested one plane from each maker so it could be that one was the best they ever made…
…were. Because I had personally trained around 6,500 people in hands-on workshops, I realised that the questions online were the same questions people had when they came to classes. “I’m…
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