My Book: A Life of Woodworking Is Coming Together
…soon find rest in; the only time wood is truly organised is when it comes together as a composition in a finished piece of well-crafted work. Storm-split wood defies man’s…
…soon find rest in; the only time wood is truly organised is when it comes together as a composition in a finished piece of well-crafted work. Storm-split wood defies man’s…
…I have always said that life is like wood, it comes with knots in it. Well, in picking out our wood, it comes with much more than a few knots….
This week I have worked substantially with two tools used in woodworking and sometimes in other materials like stone and plastic. One is definitively known as a rasp. Rasps come…
Many of you on a more local level said that you hoped to come by and visit us when we were more settled and that’s just about where we are….
…both planes and like their apron plane especially, because it’s simple and compact and the most common need for a block plane, and the reason they were often called an…
…finishes hard. 7:The famed and abandoned multi combination planes were a poor substitute for moulding planes dedicate d to task and shape. The idea was that the combination plane had…
…as their hands help one another and their minds combine to resolve problems in the wood and tools they work with. This was common in the workplace where I served…
…completed our month-long furniture making course. The continued course will expand over the months and years ahead until completed. Foundational and Two-day Discovering Woodworking Courses Beyond the three month program…
…is a single task, but to cut a housing dado and fit the two components comprises several steps that are indeed many different skills. The skill of holding a knife…
…there in different containers. I have support implements I sketch, draw and write with as enhancing leads, inks and pastels, backups for colour, texture and special line making. Art comes…
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