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Here is another view from my workshops at Penrhyn Castle’s New Legacy School of Woodworking on the Saturday before I left for New York. Isn’t it just preciously lovely to see fields of golden daffodils nodding their heads in wind-tossed cluster groups like this? I thought that you

I am finishing up some work here at the North Wales School today and preparing for my return to New York and the new school opening in a couple of weeks. I will also be covering the Northeast Woodworking Association show for articles and such and then demoing at the

My life hinges with steely solidity through a linkage of ancient ways to a working past and a lineage of craftsmen working wood day in day out. For decades and centuries the men wielded their axes and pulled their strokes with another to stretch the massive saws across the tree&

I was able to work on the side rails of the rocking chair again today. I didn't have as much time s I thought I would to work on this and i sill have a table to complete but perhaps I will do that in New York next

I bought an eBay Disston last week, amongst some others I had bought. It looked a little rugged with larger teeth than seemed natural for so fine a saw, but £10.50 didn’t seem too much for an original 10” Disston #5 brass-backed saw. I own one of these

Controlling our working world There are a few of responses to posts recently that may lead people to see me in the wrong context. One is that I live an “idyllic life” (and I know what they mean) when in fact I simply strive to make the most of the

First off this is a view from my Penrhyn Castle workshop, looking out over the Great Orme, Llandudno here in North Wales. More people came into the workshop as I worked. Many from foreign climes; Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, China, Ireland, perhaps other parts of Europe, I couldn't tell.