If You blink. . .
…mass making. I think it is funny that many makers come up with the dream of designing and making and then go into something called production to make their fortune…
…mass making. I think it is funny that many makers come up with the dream of designing and making and then go into something called production to make their fortune…
…making wooden spoons and spatulas. You feel inspired and walk away with an idea. ten, fifteen, twenty years later they are working with your grandchildren taking the exact same steps…
…a three-year furniture making programs say that they didn’t know how to sharpen a ripcut saw of any kind. This of course is the simplest of all saw sharpening methods….
…gain, mostly it was always tipped in their favour not mine. In fact I would always lose money on the deal because money and making personal gain was never the…
…is right. Unfortunately the alignment of the blade in relation to both wheels is usually a fine balance and it takes a little time gain confidence making adjustments. The spring…
…their making was, well, quite the ordinary thing to do. Everyone but everyone made. It was a taken-for-granted thing that people did, everywhere, make things. Today an engineer sets up…
…machine making is not the same as hand making. Meaning the two realms of hand work and machine work are nothing in any way like each other and so the…
…corners, circling the items that would equip me for making my first wooden spoons and spatulas from a wood I’d never known till that year, mesquite. Today, Highland Hardware is…
I once lived more permanently in the USA and started teaching woodworking and furniture making on a local level in small town outside of San Antonio, Texas. It started with…
…Winter could make a living from making and designing boxes alone. One of my spoons. It’s at the bench in small gatherings where priceless time spans the distances of time…
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