Harrogate’s North of England Woodworking Show
…hardwood as well as medieval furniture using riven wood and only traditional hand tools such as froes, axes wooden bench planes and such he researches his pieces to discover their…
…hardwood as well as medieval furniture using riven wood and only traditional hand tools such as froes, axes wooden bench planes and such he researches his pieces to discover their…
…was. We sat and talked about texture surrounding us from the floor to the roof and wall to wall. Timberframed mortised and tenoned oak, adzed, axed, planed, scraped, pinned and…
…care little for polished benches that don’t invite work and even though I take great care not to axe into or chisel the surfaces, I find slick, highly finished bench…
…know who cut the first tree or made the first home beyond native Americans, but I know it must have seemed quite awesome to hear the first axe blow resound…
…centuries the men wielded their axes and pulled their strokes with another to stretch the massive saws across the tree’s girth. So too trees reach down and up, spread root…
In a culture where most men now punch keyboards rather than swing an axe, write with a pen or dig a ditch, and where many men are dubbed big kids…
…axe and some oversized spoon augers to shape a pair of clogs from two sticks of firewood. It was both inspiring and very informing, but more than that it was…
…tree and kept it until it was the size he needed. Once the axe (ax USA) fell the tree died and he knew that in his limited sphere existing on…
…a massive line of axes by Granfors. Not quite so impressive visually but equally core to fine woodworking is the nuts and bolts stuff we need for refining our work….
…worth. For once it’s severed from its root by axe and saw the tree no longer thriving by its heartfelt beat yields its rising sap to wait…