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Legs, Blueskies and textured life

Legs, Blueskies and textured life

I turned for a living at one time, combining my furniture making skills with lathe turning gave me bread and butter turnings I sold from the studio at my workshop and this gave me additional small-scale products I sold for income. I chose my home and workshop on a tourist

Here's my mallet

Here's my mallet

Who said, "Speak softly and carry a big mallet."? I forgot to give details of this some time back when I promised to give details of the best wooden mallet I ever came across. An elderly woodsman from Cheshire showed me a beautiful mallet that’s now buried

My current project

My current project

My day in the workshop My current project is a coffee table, Arts and Crafts, oak and made utterly by hand. Most of you will recognise it as the coffee table we have been filming for the woodworking masterclasses we’ve been videoing over the past few weeks of the

Planing foursquare stock video now on YouTube

We posted a video from our woodworkingmasterclass.com series on planing rough sawn stock foursquare using a number 4 Stanley smoothing plane and a longer 5 1/2 jack on YouTube. This video helps people to understand the logical process in using basic bench planing methods and techniques to straighten

Vocationally called to work wood

Vocationally called to work wood

With a nine-day workshop coming up, my thoughts drift between filming and teaching and my life as a working craftsman, apprenticeships and so on. When I was young, I could have applied for a dozen apprenticeships with as many companies and probably have been taken on and that's

Another Woodworking Masterclasses video up

I hope that you can join us and that you do get the picture that we pass on skills and techniques for free through some of our Woodworking Masterclasses online. Go to our online broadcast here and then hit the appropriate button to simply register at no cost and then

Real woodworking begins with real people

Real woodworking begins with real people

Paul, I just wanted to say a big thank you for the wonderful weekend course at Penhryn castle. The time went so quickly and it was informative, relaxing and thoroughly enjoyable. I loved your approach to the course and your views on life in general. Much of what you said