My Garage Workshop Excites Me
…my saws held on my right towards the end of the workbench for instance, my sharpening plate shelf, my bench drawer. In between fitting out my workshop I have continued…
…my saws held on my right towards the end of the workbench for instance, my sharpening plate shelf, my bench drawer. In between fitting out my workshop I have continued…
…pass and made a second one identically with no changes. It’s holding up better than fine. It will outlast me. My birch plywood workbenches made from high-grade plywood are really…
…thinking, ‘This I can do. I just have to work out how!’ A piece of steel flat stock lies waiting on my workbench. I drill it. Cut out a piece…
…protected me, shielded me, encouraged me. From the other side of the workbench he reached his long arms to my new plane and said come here. We dismantled the plane…
…my machines second, pulled my hand tools to the fore and wondered how I could live without them, my workbench and my woodworking. I couldn’t. Crossing the line was to…
…talking about the outer jaw when it closes onto the ‘fixed’ jaw—the one attached rigidly and immovably to the fore edge of the workbench top. In either case, this uneven…
…said in all the years he had consciously known me at my workbench as a furniture maker he’d noticed there were always pieces dotted around that went from apparent trash…
…Bill. This was the character George possessed. Over the weeks George and I sat with Bill for our lunch break in a threesome at the end of Bill’s workbench. We…
…desire to let people know what they have come to know. At the workbench this is rarely expressed and I believe that is because people tend to be more private…
…The leaves and seeds are falling now. I gather leaves from maples alongside seeds. Then I compose them as picture kaleidoscope images I can rearrange somewhere near my workbench. I…
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