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It's not too complicated. You can see where things took hold - when we began losing our hand skills. Well, it's not so much that we lost them, or lost them forever, more that the potential for developing such skills took a nose dive for a

Ever since I started blogging I have never felt on my own and that's because of how you've always responded through the years. No matter what methods you use to make wood work for you, it does not take long to find likeminded people to unite

Give me an empty space, a blank sheet of paper, a pencil and such and before a few minutes have passed lines seem to appear from nowhere. When I go into a home, an office a business I am 'space aware' and as we all know, 'nature

He reaches across the workbench for a plane and says, 'Let's get crackin' then." His plane's a Woden. Well used, well worn, well 'broken in'. Mine's new, narrow, a #4 Stanley. He'd loaned me his when I

It's a long and narrow garden. Straight lines, squared off. No imagination, easy maintenance. I really like gardens with secret corners and surprises to draw your interest. It was a quick and simple thing to mow the grass. Coming out of retirement The new house presents additional work

We often use guides in my actual work and then, or especially, in my teaching others be that via video or in classes one on one. In the past it was simple enough to get my students to cut their tenons to the parallel guide lines because, after all, they