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Tools I'm Grateful For—Honourable Mention #1

Tools I'm Grateful For—Honourable Mention #1

The Shoulder Plane There are obvious tools I am grateful for that, for the main part, need no mention. A hammer to drive nails, a chisel hammer and mallet, tools for which there is no substitute, but then there are those well worth honourable mention because I did not include

What I Enjoy In Amateurism

What I Enjoy In Amateurism

Say amateur to most and the reaction expresses the opposite to how I feel in using the word. Often it's suggestive of a sort of diminished ability, but negative connotation or not, justified or not, there is no reason to take over a positive to turn it into

Vlog #4 Was Great Fun

Vlog #4 Was Great Fun

I enjoyed Vlog #4 very much and having it as a premier gave me the chance to interact for half an hour or so. This is a new challenge for me but in many ways not so different to what I already do in writing my blog, being at one

George and the Puthering Dust

Some days were made longer by the repetitive elements in the projects. Joinery often comprises subassemblies of frames, be they the replication of same-sized frames or individually sized ones. The pile of frame stock on the pallet truck was six feet high four feet wide and the lengths varied from

Filming the Cot Making

Filming the Cot Making

This week I made an oak baby's cot, or at least I began making my granddaughter's cot for when she arrives. It's oak, only because I had saved some specially figured oak for something special and what could be more special than a new

When Someone Asks How Do You Hold a Plane...

When Someone Asks How Do You Hold a Plane...

...You Will Say Some say this way is correct. It's the only way... ...Then you will say but I have been taught that this is a better way... ...and then this way, now this, and this, and this, and this, and this....... But when the wood takes me

Seeing the Art in Hand Planing—Part III

Seeing the Art in Hand Planing—Part III

I hear how others express this or that about the using of hand planes. It's as if there is but one way to hold the plane, one height at which to plane, one angle at which to plane, and so on and so forth. I'm sure