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More related to Creative Workspace Well, back to work today when all others are taking their rest on Bank Holidays. As if the banks need holidays. Yesterday's visit to Woodfest still resonates with mixed feelings. Here are some more thoughts I wanted to share: A timberframed building comprises

My creative workspace   In a field or a tent I sometimes shudder because rain, grass and people damage fine workmanship. Twenty stroking hands on a newly finished pintail duck can cause irreparable damage to weeks of hand work. Master decoy carver Gerry Sanger creates texture to his feathers in the

Woodfest 2011 North Wales Today I made it to the 2011 WoodfestWales at Kinmel Estate, St George, North Wales. A woodworking event I've looked forward to for months. I chose not to be a demonstrator this year and being on my own meant I could sit and talk

I don’t think many know the origin of the bow saw. By that I mean the first date a man bent the sapling stem of new growth to stretch a steel saw blade between two extremes. My gut feeling is that the stem was already bent in growth, as

I have worked in workshops with massive machine tenoners large enough to cut both sides of the tenon on an 8" x 12" beam in one pass and it comes out perfectly parallel with shoulders perfectly square ever time. Truth is that I really detested the whole set

Pine, spruce and fir I’ve worked with many different types of pine throughout every one of my 48 years since I picked up my first piece of Russian redwood to carve a boat from. Whereas people generally consider pine (and other such softwoods) second-rate soft wood, or, worse still,