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This is always a highlight for me and it is for attendees too. It has been for almost twenty years. I have made hundreds of these and maybe one day I should make one blindfolded. As I said in a previous blog, creating a simple dovetailed box like this bespeaks

When you buy a horse you look generally at its overall appearance as an initial indication of its condition but then you always look at the teeth. It can be the same with saws. I have tried in most cases to revue new and used hand tools after a legitimate

I took my noontime walk and a walk in the woods on my way home. The daffodils are beginning to fill the fields and woodlands around Penrhyn Castle. Some land has order and structure.         I like this some of the time, but I like the wilder woodlands better. Manicured woodland

Today we made dovetailed corners to boxes. The process of establishing such specific order hitherto didn’t exist in the lives of the students to the degree that it did today. These are patterns rarely strayed from for decades and centuries because the process evolved by sequential necessities that laid

This has nothing to do with my post here but I thought that this moon would bless you all. I took the picture at 3am as I saw it through my bedroom window this morning.                       Imagine learning anything to take a break from stress. It works! The cell phone stops,

It’s often hard to convey the transition hand tool woodworking enthusiasts go through to become competent creatives in the unique world of working wood by hand. I dwell on this as I walk between the benches and think of the people who will come to the school this morning