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...It's On its Way (the YT Video) and You Shouldn't Live and Work Without One! For a few weeks there I had to do that very thing with my new workbench. And I must say it was a strain for me because I have relied on

The workshop rang with loud singing, singing full-voiced, deep. The men sang all day, old songs I learned along the way as we planed and sawed, quick wristed, smooth actions in time with the notes of songs. I tried singing low and I did, a bit, now and then, high,

I was surprised by my surprise to the response to the blog post All In a Day's Recovery. It was in some ways touching and then somewhat saddening too. After seeing the response, since I wrote the draft below, I was further surprised that so many had different

Many things affect our ability to work wood. As a kid of 13 my experiences were mixed. I learned first that woodworking planes like the #4 Stanley or Record didn't work; that they didn't smooth wood but hacked it. I learned that thick, black, heavy pencil

Taking Control Saturday is the beginning of the weekend for most, at least in our western culture it is. It's a two-day culmination after a week's worth of work and it's  the restoration period allocated for the body and mind for recovery work that

All images of the tool chest below are the work of student woodworker Hannah Matthews who has trained with me part time for the past 18 months. I know this about woodworking, something I've had to work with with people I've trained on a closer level,

I looked at works of art in made goods designed for work, work almost always by unknown makers yet often with maker's names stamped on or print-applied in some way say by way of a tag, embossed plaque or then too in a casting of iron. Many of