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Creating New-genre Crafting Artisans - Investing in the Future

Creating New-genre Crafting Artisans - Investing in the Future

They Arrived From All Over The class arrived ready and raring to go yesterday and of course it’s pretty much none stop from beginning to end. It seems at first that everything revolved around the least obvious tool of all the square because planing is always very much at

Does Plane Iron Flatness Really Matter? This Blog Could Save You Hours

Does Plane Iron Flatness Really Matter? This Blog Could Save You Hours

It takes something to change our minds and yet a paradigm shift can be what it takes to really simplify what others complicate on our behalf. I am impressed with flatness. I know many companies establish some very sophisticated equipment to create flattened surfaces to plane irons and chisels within

Planes I Like to Work With

Planes I Like to Work With

I have so many planes now and use different ones throughout the day. I tend to keep the older and more worn ones I have bought near by because I feel an affinity with something that has so obviously been well used, cared for and feels the same as my

Welcome to Penrhyn Castle and New Legacy School of Woodworking

Welcome to Penrhyn Castle and New Legacy School of Woodworking

Drive carefully everyone. It’s a full class and we are looking forward to your being with us here at New Legacy. Most likely you will be traveling along the A55 to the turnoff for Bangor and then you will follow the A5 toward the city. This is where this

A New Class Begins - 9 Days of Pure Woodworking

A New Class Begins - 9 Days of Pure Woodworking

This weekend a workshop begins to introduce students to the foundations of working wood with hand tools. One or two of the people coming may have been here before, but most will not. I love to teach this workshop because it so demystifies woodworking and the work I do every

Here's the Scoop - Start Carving a Future

Here's the Scoop - Start Carving a Future

Carve by hand those things you care the most about It's not rocket science starting to carve, a little imagination, a few hand tools, but it can change the course of someone's life when you spend a few afternoon hours a day with your children in

Thank YOU world!

Thank YOU world!

I once lived more permanently in the USA and started teaching woodworking and furniture making on a local level in small town outside of San Antonio, Texas. It started with just a handful of people and was sponsored by the Texas Arts and Crafts Foundation. That small intro birthed a