Latest

A mixed gaggle of geese  and boxes in oak and pine and mahogany enrich my life. Here are some of the projects soon to follow. I have made some of these for years and soon you will be making them too. In the last project online (below right) we made

Thanks to my wife, Joseph, Abraham, Katrina and my friends beyond my family who work wood, support my work and bless me with friendship and care, this is the closing day of my year's classes. The year has been full of challenges because our goals have seemed impossible,

Busy start with a full foundational class at the Penrhyn workshops today. Full of aspiration, this class was made to succeed even on the first day and that’s how it felt to me. One thing that differs between the US workshops and the UK is that in the US,

I was glad for today. A  few of us got together to work with wood and I finished off a few small projects before getting ready for the class tomorrow. I made a chisel box for my bench well. Two inches deep so that it sits below the benchtops. I

I have relied on a Stanley #4 1/2 smoothing plane for forty years plus. Next to the #4, this plane sits squarely in my tool chests where ever I go and work. I need them both, but can manage adequately with either one. I like the light, versatile weight