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We finished the three-day foundational I this evening and loved every minute of the time we experienced together discovering real woodworking. On Monday I start Foundational II - no rest for the busy. here are some photographs. This was the quietest class ever. Intense and conscientious, quiet and diligent, enjoying

Great second day of a full UK class yesterday and what a lovely day we had. The workshop is different each than the previous day. I am grateful, it’s true, but it’s even more than that. We worked together each day, learned new things, worked new things and

Small rabbets from two Veritas Tools - adapting a plow plane and marking/mortise gauge I have some inlaid stock to make for a picture frame and as in times past I have needed to create inlay in wooden stock rather than inlay premade inlay. In other words, I wanted

I have another full class here in the UK that starts Thursday. The wood is cut and sized and the tools ready to go. I have ordered two new vises for two new benches I made and I want to see how well these vises work in light of the

More beeches topped and lopped while I was gone, and oak limbs heartless, hollowed-out that lasted decades and so above endangered paths must go but yet it saddens me to see so many lofty homes were lost and that they couldn’t stay where they just fell and lay, but

A day studying ecclesiastical craft work is always humbling. The good thing is that you encounter many diverse crafts in one location and often the surrounding streets. Lofty sandstone arches vault four stories above to peak in perfect symmetry - the result of men's hands chiselling and sawing