Apprenticing simplicity – keep it simple
There is no doubt Sam has developed skills quickly over the 30 or so days he’s been here. This week he’ll finish making his first workbench and he has his…
There is no doubt Sam has developed skills quickly over the 30 or so days he’s been here. This week he’ll finish making his first workbench and he has his…
…shows with these few tools on top of a joiner’s workbench in Mesquite, Texas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kansas City, Kansas. Places like that. They were mostly the salesmen who sold machine…
…platform. Otherwise we jack benches up to suit and have some extra tall ones. There is an issue surrounding sharpening at workbench normal height, hence this post. We have a…
…date Sam’s completed a foundational course making many different things ranging from spatulas and cutting boards to toolboxes, workbenches and currently an oak rocking chair. We, that’s us that work…
…and other components, which makes this plane type lighter than it’s cast iron and steel counterparts. There is no comparable difference in functionality at the workbench and if ploughed grooves…
…builds projects for final installation in homes, offices and other commercial buildings in a workshop and at a workbench. It doesn’t necessarily mean he uses only hand methods or any…
…carries that same sense as a workshop with workbenches and vises, tools waiting for use and wood stacked and racked, so I roll with the punches knowing that they just…
…of which are a his workbench and his rocking chair. I have been working with Sam in the background of my shop now for six months. He has made many…
Five workbenches for five different people making, myself, John, Hannah, Katrina and Jack. The only machine needed is the very least invasive; a 16″ bandsaw for resizing wood. The rest…
…videos I was able introduce concepts of using the router plane for tasks unmentioned before. Mostly this happened when I used my poor-man’s router to make my workbench on the…
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