Working Wood at Weekends
…five or six decades. The machines seem to have lost a little of their early 80s “power” and woodworkers started searching for a bit more depth, more skill and more…
…five or six decades. The machines seem to have lost a little of their early 80s “power” and woodworkers started searching for a bit more depth, more skill and more…
…they come over. Any #1’s going for a song anywhere? My newest addition is an I Sorby swing brace I bought a couple of gouges and a 1/2” socketed chisel…
…a trace of what was. The docks do have working vessels that still transport slate and slate waste for road base and pathways and such. Some search the mussel beds…
…my thoughts and I commend the basic pre-70’s Stanley and Record planes to anyone in search of a good plane. They need no retrofit irons except for preference or if…
Question: Hello I am looking for a bit of advice. I have been into woodworking for 5+ years but it has always involved power tools. Recently I started building small…
…like In recent years, through my research, I have stocked up on lesser known planes like Woden and I Sorby; because they fascinated me. I have a collection of Woden…
Surely craft and working with your hands defies the status quo. I think there is more to becoming an artisan than just hobbyism. I see it when people come to…
…say I am a teacher but that’s not the case. I’m really a craftsman that works mostly using only his hands and one that made the decision to search out…
…for our research and trialing shortly. That’s for when we expand training on chairmaking some time down the road. Tomorrow it’s new beginnings and that means more wood, different tools…
…store the tools we do our research and revision in. Many of the ones I own now are still stateside USA, but one day we will auction them off I…
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