My Kitchen Board, the Redwood and Sycamores
…craftsmen joiners and cabinet makers. I remember making sink drainers from sycamore 45 years ago and running the draining channels with 3/4″ hollows. this spoon is sycamore too. I can…
…craftsmen joiners and cabinet makers. I remember making sink drainers from sycamore 45 years ago and running the draining channels with 3/4″ hollows. this spoon is sycamore too. I can…
…Auriou rasps from Highland Hardware in Atlanta, Georgia because I have some serious blogs coming up on making pieces that need good quality tools that will remove the wood fast….
Shaping axes and scrapers for spoon making and carving Shaping an axe to carve with is necessary because they really don’t come fit for purpose usually. Today we do the…
Now that we have completed the spoon making we can look at saw horses and the traditions of a pair I have made since I was about 16 years old….
…in the wood I was cutting. Gouges of course are much needed for spoon making work and carving bowls. We’ve tested two out over a long enough period to be…
…and the industrialists mass making one-size-fits-all saw making that cannot be sharpened. But that’s just me. Sharing what I do it wasn’t easy to give up on some aspects of…
The first videos for making the Paul Sellers’ walking canes, sticks and staffs are up and ongoing on woodworkingasterclasses.com. Back in the early 1990’s making these proved a financial lifesaver…
…the difference is uniting the word money with making. You see most any business is about money making, but some businesses are about making furniture and violins and boats, canoes,…
I don’t think that we should ever lose sight of some basic but very interesting realities with regard to the craft of hand-making furniture and other woodwork. How often do…
…something as, well, making a sale. What a strange thing to say, ‘making a sale’. In my world of making to date I have spent over 16,500 ten-hour days, that’s…
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