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It is a remarkable thing to me, an older man, an old man, seeing where everyone is around the world that reads my blog. People watching my videos afar, looking at what I type up and then sending me messages. I post a blog one day in the morning and

In silence they smiled. Uncommon, occasional and always silently. It was the silence somehow that spoke the most-the inaudible loudness of it that loudly spoke of an inordinate joy and the funny thing about it was this, in the silence of that occasional, uncommon smile, others around knew about it,

...A Treasure Finds Usefulness In a New One It's an unusual piece, scarce really, I've never seen one like it before. It's a mortise gauge with a threaded adjustment visible in the stem. It's unusual because the stem is rebated on both

An unfolding lifestyle Soon to start yet another video training series so this week I've been looking into and prototyping to that end—one of my favourite things to do. I like what's coming from the chisel edge and the saw teeth. It feels good. Angled

It's the practicality daily woodworking brings: exceptional practicality! A question is raised quite often about dovetail sizing. Is there a formula woodworkers use, an industry standard? Because we don't always make them often enough we can find the issues surrounding sizing and proportion confusing; pin size

Go Do It "I can't saw straight to a line." 'No,' I said. "I was the worst in class in school." 'You couldn't be. Everyone else says the same.' I replied. "I couldn't get the