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You can always hear the nostalgic words, “I love the smell of wood.” as people come into the workshop throughout the day. The next comment will usually be something like, “I loved woodworking in school as a boy.” For most of the men saying that, that was sadly the last

We woodworkers have great expectations when it comes to our work, whether it's part of our full-time occupation or weekends in the garage workshop. Most often we indeed turn to and rely on woodworking magazines for inspiration, education, news surrounding woodworking and woodworkers and of course new products

The answer is yes, my workbench will carry any of the Coronet lathes easily and will indeed be vibration free to boot. I have my Record lathe mounted on one of the school workbenches for when I need to turn something and even yesterday I made buttons for a cardigan

I had wanted to post this picture at the time of the article I posted in an earlier blog here. The credit for the photograph goes to Fine Woodworking and particularly Thomas McKenna. I found the article very inspiring throughout and thought it could be aspirational to read about the

I try to visit Bluesky Cafe when I can, and actually, I find the cafe conducive to writing. The staff are always focussed and helpful and though I am not a vegetarian, they do the best vegetarian (nut) burgers on the planet. Of course their tea blend is my favourite

New Sharpening benches - at last I found a use for a lower bench height. Two reasons for a lower bench than 38", sharpening hand tools and scraping. I am into reuse of rejected materials and two solid core (solid hardwood core) fire-resistant door centres were being discarded by