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Yesterday, I took the table from the garage and into the house dining area of the new kitchen. I was pretty thrilled and I am glad I was. Why am I glad? It never left me, that the thrill of delivering a new piece, no matter where, is just an

I sip my tea while it's hot. It's first thing, around six, and I'm always first in through force of habit. I contemplate the things I need to do today, tomorrow and then for the week. This week I will take the dining table

I think grain is a deceptive substance, unpredictable and predictable in both its unpredictability and its predictability. When you least expect it, it nose dives, in a split cut, half the tenon or dovetail disappears. When the grain circumnavigates a knot and we think it will never plane on one

There is less written about wood than you might think. Oh, there are tomes in works by academics and organisations but what helps woodworkers should be a simple down-to-earth visual for people to see why we must plane and saw and split and pare cut wood differently according to something

It's not unusual for people new to woodworking to be averse to taking risks as they develop their desire to work wood. The uncertainty of outcome feeds into our fear of any kind of failure and of course, we're often involved with a material that generally

By the lake, a well-worn walkway slips and slides underfoot as I search the still water's edge for voles. They seem less prevalent now, the different types, than when I saw them every day along the quite rivers and streams of my youth. In the mornings, I often

I have loved mesquite since I first met with back in 1984. I mistakenly thought it to be a Mahogany variety, perhaps Sapele, something like that, but it was too dense, too hard for those woods. I didn't work with it again until two or three years later