Obsessing Flatness Can be Unreal
…a perfect edge and a single shaving as a result of compulsivity. They are not interested in using the plane as I might when fitting and trimming, surfacing for a…
…a perfect edge and a single shaving as a result of compulsivity. They are not interested in using the plane as I might when fitting and trimming, surfacing for a…
. . . better, more comfortably and more steadily! The beefy, muscled arms bulb up into massive balloons and the knuckles whiten the more stroke on stroke. The rest of…
…as crafting artisans, we must begin at some point to exercise our whole being on a more than regular basis. Competitive Sport I’m competitive, but not at all a…
…are made, I don’t necessarily want to endorse products that lead to unemployment and so on. I highly respect domestic companies on any continent that sets a standard, doesn’t compromise…
…In those days I’d work long days in the wilderness watching for out wild boar and snakes of every kind. I learned to sense danger as I worked with come-alongs…
…in awe of how the wood worked and then experienced admirable qualities of strength, resilience, colour and grain configuration. Yew is common enough as a tree, but it’s less commonly…
…tails first as a matter of course. Understand that though we call through dovetails common dovetails, it is relatively more common to cut half-lap dovetails than through or common dovetails….
…finishes hard. 7:The famed and abandoned multi combination planes were a poor substitute for moulding planes dedicate d to task and shape. The idea was that the combination plane had…
…Much of what we teach comes from decades of training passed down that will only come this way. Here is the link to a guaranteed future for craftsmanship internationally. …
…I have always said that life is like wood, it comes with knots in it. Well, in picking out our wood, it comes with much more than a few knots….
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