Measuring successes
…and started three woodworking schools, all of which are successful. I have trained nearly 4,000 woodworkers and yet been a real woodworker all of my life. This all began with…
…and started three woodworking schools, all of which are successful. I have trained nearly 4,000 woodworkers and yet been a real woodworker all of my life. This all began with…
…wood for workbenches and a bench made using the methods and design that follow will last you for at least a century and more. So let’s get started. As you…
…made and sold at least a hundred such benches and used the same style made from the same or similar materials for the different schools I have started through the…
…tenon and handsaws, one of the best makers I have enjoyed the work of is Robert Groves who started making saws in 1770. I have owned one 14” tenon saw…
Apprenticing Phil Adams Two weeks ago Phil Adams started his apprenticeship with me and quickly settled in at his bench making a range of spoons and spatulas to sell…
…wonderful. As a boy in school I was shown this method and indeed we were trained that way, but once I left school and started to chop mortises in the…
…physical limits of tools and over exuberant in their quest to achieve could bend or snap thinner chisels. My main thrust in real woodworking is to eliminate the obstacles that…
…chisel form the USA I looked at the Narex brand because I had had such good results from the Narex bevel-edged chisels since we started to use them at the…
…as most do, but when it comes to power it should be redefined within the realms of woodworking. On the one hand power woodworking gives us an electrical or mechanical…
…as successes stand in clamps by each bench. As we started to suddenly apply finish to each of the projects, my success becomes evident too. Saw strokes no longer jarr…