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Of course you can't uncare because  'uncare' is not a verb, and generally we use 'uncaring' as the typical adjective. But I used uncare to encourage you to think about something that has increasingly troubled me and it ties in I think with the

Your responses to the last blog came as no surprise. As people accept the ever more mundane of mass making, skills automatically become dumbed down. Manufacturers that once had loyalty on a more local level have gradually sold out and what we thought was still being made domestically by local

I listened to a BBC Radio 4 programme with a presenter named Jenny Murray talking about 17 crafts on the 'Red Endangered List', where certain crafts are in danger of disappearing. Of course we have seen crafts disappear because there was no use for them anymore. John Seymour

An abandoned wardrobe lay bereft of its doors on a burn pile and I tugged on it to lift one end from the pallets below as if the pallets deserved to be there but the massive wardrobe didn't. It was pine, only pine! I remember hearing the man

I once found a mid 19th Century Henry Disston handsaw being sold on eBay and bought it. `it's a lovely saw and my favourite of all. It's nott a common item and few will own this one particular type. It’s very lovely. My Disston is

In the last month I taught workshops in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel, filmed a new multipart series that fully updates my most current version on building my home woodworking workbench, taught a nine-day workshop here in the UK (just completed) and indeed kept up with the day to day

One or two of you have suggested I consider looking at some different makers of the age, those who are investing time and effort to develop new handsaws. Thank you for your input. Well, I do like what you suggested and the saws do look nice and well made so,