In the Beginning
…compare. Value by service is not something manufacturers really want. The Stanley utility knife and the safety razor were designed to dispense with skills to sharpen but more than that…
…compare. Value by service is not something manufacturers really want. The Stanley utility knife and the safety razor were designed to dispense with skills to sharpen but more than that…
…interaction with a few friends and a couple or more hours watching, talking and listening to my friend Marty for the woodworking insights of a man completing a violin. A…
…and it has a good sized handle I really like. Some years ago I spoke to Lee Valley Tools about producing a dovetail saw and they were coming up with…
…mass made on a more commercial level. My product line was developed to make money and though I was careful with every piece I ever made and put myself into…
…way out of commercialism and begin to start out pioneering a new direction. Leaving the USA and my beloved Texas, with the rebirth that often comes from living in a…
…craft and handwork. Across from me is a man that makes many types of components for cars. It’s a small compact business with different machines he operates from his computer….
Refining and fitting next. Please don’t think that this plane is difficult and complicated to make. It’s not. Curve-soled, round-soled, straight-soled and hollow-soled planes all come via the same patterns…
…Product reviews and machine tests are in fact advertisements for the companies presenting their products for test. That shouldn’t need saying but anyone coming into the craft may not realize…
…match what we hope for in the opening experience. I liken this to getting out in nature by camping out but glamping in a yurt with all home comforts matching…
…the most determined to give up. The way you skew a skew chisel might be compared to engaging the wind and water in sailing, one disoriented sail can pull you…
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