Pricing Your Work
…size and it sells for £1.25 here in the UK. Trying to compete with such a price when the makers own the forest and a million spoons might come from…
…size and it sells for £1.25 here in the UK. Trying to compete with such a price when the makers own the forest and a million spoons might come from…
It’s not too early to prepare for the coming of cold days and evenings of low light, low energy levels. The days are shortening now so prepare yourselves. In a…
…was a red meranti from the Philippines. It’s a common enough wood here in the UK. Stain it and it can look like sapele or even mahogany. It doesn’t take…
…what component size, what components will suit what project and then what wood matches the envisaged project. I calculate that of the dozens of pieces needed to furnish my house…
…learned to work with it and not against it. Tabletops are a good example of ‘floating’ panels. Most often we anchor them to an under frame on legs, posts or…
…to teach and train too. Over the past two years I have worked alongside Izzy who has been so diligent to set up our Common Woodworking website at commonwoodworking.com. Over…
…to look at both what we make and how we make. I am sure it might well irk the puritan traditionalists to consider third party components to hold things we…
…week. We went back to the bench dozens of times when after examination the teacher kept telling us, ‘Not good enough, not good enough’. We had all kinds of equipment…
…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…
…for centuries. It’s nice to think something might be too good for burning. Wood scraps often make it to my special woods. A gathering of unique pieces that are common…
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