Beyond Noise—Silence
…My strike with the mallet compels the chisel in a way that excludes aggressiveness. Aggression creates its own unique noise according to the tool and tools in use and the…
…My strike with the mallet compels the chisel in a way that excludes aggressiveness. Aggression creates its own unique noise according to the tool and tools in use and the…
…around the globe. Who wouldn’t feel constantly buoyed up. There are other bonuses in my life that I never just want to let slip by. In Israel I listened to…
…as a fully commercial product. It’s also true that beyond the run of the mill manufacturers there are the specialist makers who have established themselves by developing every kind of…
Yup! Here it is. It seemed a long time coming but drawings, cutting list and episode one just went out and I hope you enjoy this as much as I…
…Hawking at the same institution. Christopher Wren, T.S Elliot. The list never ends of course because not all made it onto the charts of fame. The common threads woven throughout all…
…building the workbench has established the down-to-earth workbench everyone needed to get seriously into hand tools. Seeing pictures coming in of complete and part completed benches is my great reward….
…how they perceive craft work like mine. They listened to the voices, real and perceived, that it makes no sense. It just cannot be done and worse still, there is…
…books from the local library. Sat at the tables naming the tools I needed. I would sketch woodgrain. Colour the grain on the paper with poorly matched watercolour paints to…
…a new design I want to try and a project genesis quickly comes together in multiple dimensions. I look through the workshop door, listen to the shavings crushing underneath my…
…placing my tools in the exact spot where I want them. Some have reasoned differently and made comments about how this or that works better. It made me aware that…