Work Brings Life to Masses
…yet go back a hundred or so years ago and working from home, growing your food, animals, making things to support a modest agrarian life, all of this was once…
…yet go back a hundred or so years ago and working from home, growing your food, animals, making things to support a modest agrarian life, all of this was once…
…off the surfaces. I cannot express the pure joy at making a door and frame using traditional joinery and installing it the same day. Was it hard work? Of course…
…complexities of not just making the joints but ways of awkward working that avoided damage when the completed joint needed planing, assembling, clamping or dismantling. A ground scallop converse to…
…with too much set, about three times too much, and with teeth stamped out by machine and filed by machine. Such saw-making is sadly lacking the quality only hand filing…
Last year we made a series on making a wall-hung tool cabinet using hand tools and the whole process involved many elements to help woodworkers develop various woodworking and cabinet…
…do. Indeed, the saws now totally produced by machine came to closely match those made by the Eastern masters in traditional Japanese saw making but in a matter of minutes…
…month trying to meet all of the deadlines and making sure I wasn’t the bottleneck to others completing their work and keeping to schedule. Putting tools away sharp and ready,…
I once lived more permanently in the USA and started teaching woodworking and furniture making on a local level in small town outside of San Antonio, Texas. It started with…
I’ve been making boxes all day today, to stock up for customers coming through the workshop. But I also went to buy some wood from my local wood supplier, Richard…
…my free time in the evenings and weekends to make my days longer and extended beyond my working hours of making, and teaching and building to build a more secure…