A day in church – Chester cathedral
…building itself is Christian or not is for dispute. The work of hands is a man’s form of honour and worship. He works within a sphere no other can, decides…
…building itself is Christian or not is for dispute. The work of hands is a man’s form of honour and worship. He works within a sphere no other can, decides…
I’m currently in the middle of making two toolboxes, to replicate the building of one completed by Joseph and I in 2003. It’s not a small amount of work to…
…of my toolboxes and tool chests I use frame-and-panel, a method also very traditional, but of course it would be pointless to do a replication if you change everything because…
Last week, before the woodworking show in New Jersey, I glued up my new tool chest and had hoped to make the last drawer before the show was over but…
…maintenance, checked on the building work at the house, and the garden and then too the garden workshop and so on. The major building work is almost done. The window…
I am preparing wood for my next chest, which is my version of a Shaker-style hope chest. This one has similar features to the one in the blog, but dovetailed…
…building is the more important factor because, of course, my day involves many other things like designing router planes, spending time teaching my granddaughter to use hand tools and such…
…everyday items to building complete workshops. It looks really daunting but I would love to learn the basics and build on from there, hopefully fulfilling a goal of being able…
Building a Cabinet Maker’s Tool Chest The tool chest preparations as a woodworkingmasterclasses series are well underway and having seen the projects in the Gallery here I am sure you…
Toolboxes as actual boxes would once have been more tool chests. The portability of tools from workshop to customer was essential to most makers and indeed to the old men…