Milling Oak…
…Compression from between my fingers and thumbs. Though at first I had no register recorded to make comparisons to. They, George, at first anyway, chuckled. “What do you think you’re…
…Compression from between my fingers and thumbs. Though at first I had no register recorded to make comparisons to. They, George, at first anyway, chuckled. “What do you think you’re…
…We have come to some level of conclusion that we already present good study course materials via our Common Woodworking site and indeed Woodworking Masterclasses too, but we need to…
…come into tandem with my lifestyle woodworking. It’s the search; I love the hunt. That search-eye that spies out the wood and stops you on your bike to detour. So…
…time that I as a woodworker skilled in hand work was somehow relieved from the pressures of competitiveness. That there was no competition between handwork and machine work because the…
…antiquity of the buildings in a bemusing sort of way but I search out the twin tenons on 4″ thick stiles and then just how much quarter-sawn oak was used…
…of that side of things replaced the need of craft skills more than anything. Texturing wood comes in many forms to identify the maker in his or her work. It’s…
I so enjoyed the show yesterday and I think the visitors did too by all accounts. Of course this has always been a commercial show with vendors bringing product to…
…a present generation. This means copious note making and measuring the details of life meticulously and searching out for the many small nuances a particular craftsman had and left behind…
I filed scrapers today, preparing for new work this coming week. I generally sharpen four at once because they get hot and I never liked anything but my fingers, thumbs…
…The clarity comes by my aligning every element of my being in every cutting stroke. In this I tune modulation and search out resonance for a pulse beat sound and…
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