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Cultural influences on crafts and craft work Of all of the places I visit to look at the work of our fore-bearing woodworkers, some of my favourites are those that depict a cultural way of life that encapsulates a sort of a sustainable wholeness we might seldom see today. By

Simple design concepts lead to prototypes and on to production The first piece I ever made representative of a fully  jointed piece and one that represented my first furniture-type piece was a four-piece wall shelf with two sides and two shelves. My parents gave it back to me just before

Bailey-pattern planes were designed by Leonard Bailey designed planes and worked for the Stanley company. From here on and throughout the series of articles, I will refer to this plane as the Stanley plane. I do not recommend modern Stanley planes of any type and I will cover this in