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A man baited me with a question and I didn't resist. I'd just done a remarkable demonstration of cutting a twin-tailed, two-minute dovetail to a perfect fit for an audience of 200 who cheered and clapped when I'd done. what made it the more

Finishing means beginning again. I take wood from stacks and racks, search the small offcuts kept in case for suitable sections that might work for this rail or that stile and soon my rough-sawn stock leans standing by my bench. I begin truing up the first face of each one,

I've written so much about my using hand tools in my daily woodworking through the years, as a full-time maker my reasoning is sound. Combining writing with teaching many thousands in my woodworking classes one-on-one (over 6,500 to date) enabled me to better understand the need. I

It seems such a small thing, a simple thing. Not worth too much, even, but it's yours. You bought it with a whole week's wage. It cost you something, you see, that plane. I was 15 back in 1965 and it cost me a week'

. . . But Maybe Ever-more Sure In the beginning of my woodworking, I was never really sure in my working that the outcome would match the expectation and less so the demand of a boss. The chisel's twist from the line, an awkward blow that glanced off sideways somehow. These

I scrape a lot, and I mean a lot and most days scraping is part of mu=y daily ritual in dealing with hardwoods like oak, sycamore, cherry, maple, walnut, ash, teak and so many more. Scraper is of course a misnomer for what a card or cabinet scraper is

More on hinges. Those things that just hang in open space to fill a space and keep out the enemies of life and let friends in and out as desired yet something that is so taken for granted. Everyone pretty much ignores gates and doors except the man that makes