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The recent post I posted on tools being unfairly acquired fired a little ambiguity surrounding the message. My concern was someone having say a tool collection with value of £5,000 and someone telling the owner that they weren't worth hardly anything and offering £50 with the intention

An email from a friend struck me recently and I responded by calling the number he gave me.  "Tools for sale", are the three words that struck me in the email, and then, "violin maker," too. The tools were a mile from where I live and

I look through my journals of ten years ago and enjoy reading what I was doing on the equivalent day compared to today. Ten years ago I was teaching and making. Believe it or not I was teaching two classes at once and I was making a cello with Joseph

For me, craft has and always will be the art of work in action, no matter the work type. Craft brings order to the whole of life. It’s highly addictive, self-perpetuating and sustainable and more than that it is a powerful way of expressing who we are as people,

Yes, I flew into Tel Aviv last night late and arrived in Jerusalem at 2am. At 9am my class in traditional handwork began and throughout the day we had the most amazing exchange of hands-on hand tool woodworking reaching way into every corner of Gil's workshop. Mishael Levron