Posts Tagged ‘Christmas projects and gifts’
Walking canes, and hiking staffs – Great Christmas gifts
I wrote of my stick making days here some three months back and no one should question that making a cane for someone, buying a hand made cane for someone, carries with it a sense of care and love for craftwork that goes beyond what might otherwise be an Asian import of standard equipment for…
Read MoreUnique Christmas Gifts and Decoration – Making Faceted Stars
Today I designed a new dovetail template I think everyone will like. I designed it six months ago actually but haven’t had the time to make it. It’s fairly radical I think. Different and highly functional. I also looked over the stars ready for the blog and decided to make the same one we recently…
Read MoreSharpening – Don’t Dismiss Two-sided Plates for Christmas Gifts
Christmas is very near and sharpening looms high on the agenda for any hand tool enthusiast and real woodworking demands it. This would be a good time to state your needs and perhaps acquire your sharpening plate ready for the New Year and the woodworkingmasterclasses.com training. I have one of these EZE-Lap two sided plates…
Read MoreBuying Tools for Christmas Gifts
Buying tools for Christmas gifts makes gift-buying quick and simple, especially through eBay and online buying. This is the reality of woodworking. The price can be matched to any budget from a few pounds and on into the hundreds. I am glad there are so many Stanley 4s and 4 1/2s on eBay I wanted…
Read MoreA Perfect Christmas Gift Set – Last Minute Suggestion
On tools for Christmas Presents Wood is an inexpensive commodity even though we do complain about the prices we pay. It’s cheap in this one way; from a short board of wood and with three tools like those in this blog, you can make several projects ranging from cutting boards to spatulas and walking sticks…
Read MoreVideo with some small Christmas projects
A week or so ago I posted in a three-hand tool gift set as an introduction to woodworking for someone you know and you want to get them started. Here are four projects with three tools in a 30 minute video to watch with the kids and the grandkids that are quick and simple as something to do over…
Read MoreSome Thoughts for Christmas Gifts
This past year some things have impressed me. Tools, equipment, books. I used a C.K. Square awl for many years and then they switched maker and the square bit snapped on many of their awls so I had to abandon them. C.K. probably changed to make 10 pence more per awl. I was given a…
Read MoreTwo Possible Stocking Stuffers for Christmas Gifts
I recently blogged about saw handle sizing because many handles since the last World War often became undefined, utilitarian and too big for anything but brutish work. That’s true of most hand tools that are mass made. Some of you responded with suggestions for high-end saws ranging in price between £100 – £200 per saw…
Read MoreMaking a Shining Star for Christmas Decor
Christmas in the US starts after Thanksgiving Thursday for the busiest shopping day of the year (USA), but for those of us living around the rest of the globe making gifts and decor begins when we find half a day to do it. To give you a heads-up we made this video for Woodworking Masterclasses…
Read More3 Weeks to Christmas
It was Christmas day in the workhouse……so here we are.
Read Moreon 10 Projects to Make'It’s just a shame that all the things you make are so old fashioned and out of date looking.' ... Quite apart from the tautology - 'out of date' and 'old fashioned' - you've gotta…
on Edge Sharpening Under £10I have been using a set of the Chinese plates for a couple of years now - I mount mine individually on paddles kind of like a strop, but that's just my preference. A couple of thin…
on The Importance of CraftHasan, maybe you could teach just one young person to love wood and all its wonders, do you have one person that shows interest? Invite them in to see one project, enthusiasm creat…
on 10 Projects to MakeSimon , Personally I find your comments not only ignorant but tactless and insulting. Where might we find your contributions or are you only limited to negative critique ? Have you…
on 10 Projects to MakeWhen I thought I would have time it still fills up. My daughter works at a fabric store where they've been making face mask kits. She's brought several home. So it's been sewing to…
on Sharp TalkingI'm lucky, i had a good teacher who taught me to sharpen freestyle by hand. It was not all that easy to get the hang of it, but once you've got it, its easy and it saves all that f…
on My 400,000 Subscriber YouTube GiveawayNot really a subscriber, chances are about nil. Just completed a large Tool Cabinet to hold 90% of my hand tools. Getting ready to build a Til for all the hand planes, next....alre…