It Was A Humbling Thing

I don't follow but two others online. One is a cafe I haven't been able to go back to because I no longer live near to it and the other is a support for those with a disability. But I clicked on an Instagram account of someone following me and saw something I had not realised. The first thing I saw was my triple diamond plate set up according to the pattern I gave and have used for around 30 years. The plates were held in a QR vise and I became more intrigued.

From there I realised that this woodworker had identically made the carrier for the diamond plates I was using too. He'd recessed them into the board as per my 2013 blog on how to do it but probably followed my video from 2017 here: sharpening plate holder. From there I went up the images and found the wall shelf from 1963 when I made my first woodworking project in school woodworking and replicated it for a new instructional.

As I went through the dozens of images I saw the Wall Hung Tool Cabinet followed by the complex tool chest (that wasn't so complicated) we made for woodworking masterclasses.

And there was one of these but painted a different colour rather than graphite.

Passing through the months and years we went from saw horses to the workbench, and a myriad of other pieces he'd diligently worked through alongside everyday issues around sharpening every tool using only hand methods. This man alone proved the efficacy of my early intent, the one I'd wondered about in 2010 when I asked myself if this could ever work; that we could be training others around the world on a distance-learning program hitherto not done. So here we are!