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…the middle of each benchtop. I reminded them that tomorrow they would be back in the real world and everyone smiled. Bench planes were stowed and chisels placed in the…
…the middle of each benchtop. I reminded them that tomorrow they would be back in the real world and everyone smiled. Bench planes were stowed and chisels placed in the…
…For My Garden Bench Parts So it’s oak. It’s 5″ thick and you need 3 1/2″. There is no doubt that the bandsaw makes shorter work of ripping it to…
…yet another email from someone who followed the YouTube Bench-build and built his first bench. It stood testimony to his sense of wellbeing. I felt his pride for him. Why…
…a corner against a something will almost always break. When we are in making mode we are constantly shifting the pieces from benchtop to vise, across the benchtop to leave…
…of woodworking craftsmen. That’s beside the point. My copy of the original About 40 years ago I saw tools in a chest beneath a bench of a man I knew…
Day four goes well again! Today passed quickly yet again and before we knew it we were sweeping masses of hand plane shavings from the workshop floor and benches. It’s…
…passed in a heartbeat. Much faster than I thought they would and before I knew it I was sitting on a bench by the pond getting my journal up to…
…my courses whether it’s through hands-on around my bench or hands-on at your own bench in the garage or wherever. We are taking it back. No longer will woodworking be…
Taking a break from the workshop, the bench and tools, is always hard for me to do but absence supposedly makes the heart grow fonder and work is and always…
…machine procedure rarely steps out of its comfort zone even though that brain capably functions multidimensionally. 6,500 students have stood opposite me around my bench for three decades, from 7-year-olds…