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It was the tap-tapping of the tails into the recesses between the pins with the end of a one-inch chisel I remember the most. George had shown me this but did not leave it there. He'd explained Newton's Third Law that for every action (force) in

Toolboxes as actual boxes would once have been more tool chests. The portability of tools from workshop to customer was essential to most makers and indeed to the old men I worked with who spoke of handcarts loaded with wood and their tool chests, stepladders and sawhorses to go to

Today I made again and yesterday the work took on yet another full, unfaltering day in an exchange of all the hand tools I use. Work parcels itself out into tasks with starts and stops to embrace each diverse function. The tasks are all distinct and though different, they each

In this thing called 'progress', we often consider the lower price to be our gain. That would be called progress in many camps, maybe most. In the reality of life, what's now called the shrink-economy would have at one time been called simply a con. Why

There can be no doubt that finishing is an art form and gaining mastery in the application of the different types takes time. That said, manufacturers have gone to great lengths to give us products that ease the process. No one should be afraid of ruining their great and labour-intensive

I'm never quite sure. I used to think Record's steel sash clamps of old for joinery were the best but my mind changed through the years and I wouldn't really want them near my furniture these days. Then, living in the USA, I used

Last week was a lead-in week to more full-time working where I tested different parts to my body to see what could and would not work and to see what I could and could not do. This was all in relation to pain surrounding my ribs being broken and the