Lea leaves us for Slovakia tomorrow
…I’m sure there is significance in the question, but I have learned all too often that people assume one thing when it can be entirely another. The month has passed…
…I’m sure there is significance in the question, but I have learned all too often that people assume one thing when it can be entirely another. The month has passed…
…prop the branch held and on close examination I saw that it was completely healed and solid. It remained so until we moved on and returned to the UK a…
…spoke of him and to him. George considered him a man of substantial character and an example of excellence whereas others seemed to despise his stand for right. When the…
…completing so many things before the Christmas deadlines. I think pacing yourself is important but I also think that without pressure we often under achieve. Making realistic goals helps us…
…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…
…beginning. All of this work is still time consuming and tedious, whether free– or repetitive pattern. My examinations reveal the same oversight by the master carver. The carvings in the…
…method wasn’t common or at all necessary in today’s woodworking any more. Or was it? It was when I saw that air-nailers had become common that I reintroduced the nail-cum-drill-bit…
…freely between the layers) and air-dried. Seasoning allows the wood to move according to the gradual release of moisture. This is the reason that air-dried wood is more stable after…
…an opposition. Well, all of that’s true, but it was the combination of opposing grains together that gave me the greatest opposition even though, as in the case of the…
…has made and sold several pieces now, this was his very first commission. Today’s weather will be a true test for its stability on Bangor High street. Phil once worked…
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