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A week or two ago it seemed like a good idea to make a second workbench and give it to someone under 25 years old here at the last show….
A week or two ago it seemed like a good idea to make a second workbench and give it to someone under 25 years old here at the last show….
…4 and 4 1/2, and I’ve heard you talk about using a jack plane, but even throughout the workbench build, we never saw you straighten stock with a jointer. Nor…
…at my fingertips. The tools, the ones I use constantly, are pens and pencils stood in jars on my workbench, on my desk and on my dining table. They live…
…coming week we have a couple of things happening as we conclude the bookcase. We will be painting the bookcase and the pine workbench stool using milk paint so I…
…holds such clarity; the workbenches and hand tools, with bright sunshine spilling over the workshop from the north-facing windows. It was a clarity I never felt about any aspect of…
…higher levels of fulfillment as they work their bodies, develop muscle and relieve tensions from work-related stress by the whole body and mind experience at the workbench. Many too, thankfully…
…as the sports fanatics are bombarded with fast-talking sports commenters shouting out quite meaningless hype in just-released results and I see my tools on the workbench and ten items resulting…
Yesterday Phil finished his workbench stool and it looks very nice now he’s done. I was just about to finish the last of five bookshelves as a medley of useful…
…workbench somehow carries deep, enriching meaning. I have put food on my table and raised my children from a one-wage income family throughout my married life. Times can be lean,…
…Uncertain of any future I found an apprenticeship and suddenly, behind the workbench, I discovered craft and the art of work. I found interest in everything surrounding my bench and…
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