Vocationally called to work wood
With a nine-day workshop coming up, my thoughts drift between filming and teaching and my life as a working craftsman, apprenticeships and so on. When I was young, I could…
With a nine-day workshop coming up, my thoughts drift between filming and teaching and my life as a working craftsman, apprenticeships and so on. When I was young, I could…
I spent yet another day working against time but relaxed in my work. The pieces are slowly but surely coming together and I feel the contentment as each joints seats…
…people coming to the beautiful North Wales mountains and seaside and many stayed here at the Castle all day long. We inside the Castle and in between bouts of filming…
…years ago because we felt it would compromise our work testing tools and giving our findings here. Two or more camps in woodworking I see that today there are two…
…ecosystem all of the components are interrelated beneath the protection of the canopy of the forest. An understory exists within and beneath which fertile life coexists to build up and…
…on. Notes accompanied by drawings records my thoughts on such specific issues. I don’t think that this is a common practice but today I can testify to the absolute value…
…goes around come around So, here we are. As with fashion, we’ve come full circle. I think that we have at last turned a corner when you see that men…
…not to tell others. It was so freeing to see people’s eyes opened to new ways of working wood that have stood the test of time, yet been confused and…
…smoothing plane. I now pick it up with equal favouritism to some of my longterm user planes and that without compromise at all. Remember this was the one that for…
…temperature ranges, so should gluing up be avoided in such spaces? Answer: This question comes up frequently enough and is a concern in various parts of the UK and…
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