Real Woodworking Just Grows and Grows
…look at the testimonies of others I stand truly amazed. Working on my new laptop desk for an upcoming woodworking masterclasses series. I glued up the the base frame to…
…look at the testimonies of others I stand truly amazed. Working on my new laptop desk for an upcoming woodworking masterclasses series. I glued up the the base frame to…
…exist. there is great wisdom in interviewing someone through a bench test. great wisdom. So the question is answered in your comments. Perspective is everything. Finding the balance, different strokes…
…that the once new and innovative quick-release vises from Britain stood the test of time to become the accepted and traditional vice and your third hand becomes complete, whole and…
A couple of months have passed since we mentioned the new Spear & Jackson saws I tested out, refined and upgraded to create dedicated rip and crosscut saws. Someone wrote…
…tails find recess and come to rest. I don’t have that freedom yet. Or do I. Thinking these things through is important. Two man many decades ago, a century or…
I’ve commented on inexpensive tools available to woodworkers because sometimes it is false economy to buy something that seems cheap because it seems inevitable that the tool or equipment will…
…for something finely crafted and are indeed blessed by refinement such as these hand wrought things gave to us. Some are sculpted planes finely made as examples from ebony and…
…testing and so on. Here at the Castle is a major collection of art work and furnishings not the least of which is a Rembrandt worth £60m. The property is…
…makers died out with their planes, but evidently there are some examples here to attest to their quality. I do use my Sorby planes most days for different functions of…
…to life’s problems, but my stock answer always is this. Life is just like wood, it comes with knots in it. Controversy ebbs and flows around bevel-up and bevel down…
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