Walking creative walks
The workshop seems empty today. I enjoyed finishing up a few outstanding projects and meeting the visitors. Sold a piece too. People really like the Hope Chest but I can’t…
The workshop seems empty today. I enjoyed finishing up a few outstanding projects and meeting the visitors. Sold a piece too. People really like the Hope Chest but I can’t…
…much on fashioning the creative workspace as they do on projects. It’s an ideal that grows with you and evolves according to your work. Customising need not occur all at…
…used a crayon to darken one edge. This contrast makes the distant batten easier to sight in. We call these two sticks winding sticks. They guarantee twist free projects of…
…In situations like this it’s typical to place the tenons and the mortises in the centre of leg and rail. Other projects work on one-third and one-quarter principles surrounding issues…
…pre-machine age and making such projects day in day out I would indeed use a heavy weight traditional mortise chisel. I worked on two large doors for the National Trust’s…
…with just ten hand tools and three joints you can make thousands of projects ranging from wooden boxes to four-poster beds and coffee tables to dining chairs of every type….
Our preparation workshop is a three day workshop that covers the essentials of hand tool woodworking in readiness to begin the three major projects I described in an almearlier post….
…are honed on the projects and joinery skills develop with each joint for tool boxes, chairs and tables. In just four weeks tomorrow they will sit in their rockers with…
…counter the culture group analytics, I present a simple alternative as an immediate solution to get stuff in the vise and made into projects. It works, and it has for…
…tool chests. Hard to do with their other projects but in a couple of days I will post pictures of this. This week we will have their coffee tables done…