My essential tools
…wood, I have isolated the simplest tools I use for a variety of tasks such as bowl carving, making spoons, scraping and so on. The next category is the joinery…
…wood, I have isolated the simplest tools I use for a variety of tasks such as bowl carving, making spoons, scraping and so on. The next category is the joinery…
… With these oak stiles I will form new doors at Penrhyn Castle Oak cutting boards, spoons and spatulas are some of my favorite things for the kitchen as…
…and the damp cellar. Waste not want not. Imagine how many spoons John will make with this gouge and for just a few shillings. Sorry, pence. I would that I…
This 1 1/4″ woodworking gouge has an out canal and is used for carving scalloped work like wooden bowls and spoons. This was made by Thos Ibbotson who was a…
…tangs and the steel used has good edge-retention qualities. They are lovely to use and are ideal spoon-making gouges. I paid less than £4 per gouge. The gouge slips in…
…and her minute-by-minute input. Perhaps that’s why making something from raw wood or a piece of damp clay, some reeds from the riverbank with our hands means something. The workshop finished…
These two knives are used in animal husbandry, to clean and trim the hooves of sheep and goats of different types or breeds. They have stainless steel blades and both…
…special about carving spoons from riven stock using limbs and stems and letting the chips fall right there on the woodland floor and that’s what we enjoyed about being a…
…chair, but magic falls far short. Drifting further back to 1965 I remember making tea for ten men many decades my senior and discovering that two teaspoons of tea in…
…with never an issue of workability and they shaped and cut everything from cutting boards, spoons and spatulas to cello, violin and guitar parts for about 25 years or so…