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Questions answered - Painting projects Q: I was wondering of you could talk a little bit on painting your pieces.  The tool chest you finished recently and many of the boxes have a lovely paint job, at least from the photos.  I apologize if you mentioned this somewhere.  I did

Texture comes from life moving through generations, centuries, culture-defining events and is the wear of life in work, made goods and life itself. We have texture in us that presents our identity as this or that being. We are known by our personal texture, we make texture and live in

St Fagans National History Museum In my research this week I have found myself more and more looking for texture of the lives of craftsmen and women from times past and thereby found myself time and time again contenting myself with a different view. I see hundreds of pieces of

Rabbeting without a rabbet plane - rebate UK Someone wrote me and asked me if there was a way he could run a rebate to stock without a machine and special planes. There is a way I use quite often that works fine. It may take a couple of practice

A visit to Cardiff Castle Penrhyn Castle has much in common with Cardiff castle in one thing alone. The manorial house aspects of what was built was built on the poverty of miners and quarrymen labouring above and below ground  for a pittance of a below-subsistence level wage. What we