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I think it is often a difficult time of year for many, especially is this so at the close of long periods of uncertainty, isolation and diversely different pockets of unrest. Current unpredictabilities of unrest defies much of what we have known in our individual cultures. It seems we have

I spent some time with UK woodworking magazine editor, Nick Gibbs who is co-founder of Quercus, which dedicates its content to articles on working wood by hand. Nick contacted me to see if he could arrange to interview me about my life working wood as a full-time lifelong woodworker. Nick

You are always so supportive of all that we do and we wanted to let you know that news about our new router plane instructional video was one of our most popular ever. When we asked who would be interested in a kit of component metal parts we did get

Another George story begins with, "What you doing, boy?" as in 1965, aged 15, I crosscut a 4 by 8 with a brand new Canadian Disston (don't get one) handsaw. The saw seemed constantly to drift out of square despite the squared-across lines I'd

. . . with a slight tweak here and another tweak there, you might just amaze yourself. I regularly hear from people that they struggle to get their western saws to work smoothly. I have been preparing some saw articles to try to help. Many of you swear by your Japanese pull-stroke saws

This is another time of year that maybe parallels the end of the last one. We did so much work in the face of issues we mostly had never faced before. My hands continued finding work to promote hand working with wood and so many of you followed to gain

I'd been unloading for about two hours. The truckload of kiln-dried, Russian redwood was some of the most beautiful pine I had ever seen. Sixteen footers of knot-free wood in sections 8" wide and 3-4" wide. These sections and lengths were generally too long and heavy