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How can you measure it, bottle it, sell it? Often, at different points in my life, I have found myself setting out in one direction only to find myself somehow going full circle and ending up at the very point where I successfully began. The first workshop I ever owned

It's coming together. We have already filmed several videos and I'm adding the missing bits as we go. This week I have been building my shelves for the wall behind me whenever I had a free minute or two. It's hard to workout why

Hand routers come in a wide range of types and sizes, wood and metal ones work the same and there are advantages as always to wood on wood. You shouldn't think that the ones with adjustable depth control or superior to the pinch-adjust types nor that metal routers

When I was 14 I made my first keyhole plate (pic here). Well, four of them actually. I used them to hang the wall shelf I was making for my parents. They are not hard to make and at 14 they would be considered especially fun.  I replicated my schoolboy

From my Journal Entry May 2018 My morning bursts open in my head as I walk the river paths through green fields and to my work. Ideas waken in quick successive twists, curves and curls, spinning, spinning, swirling from my brain reminding me of shavings that twist from my plane.

I rarely like other people to pick up or move my wood. We woodworkers are like packrats when it comes to what wood we have and it's surprising where we acquire it from or how, what we actually have with regards to wood types and sizes and so