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I still receive an occasional comment from someone who knows me not at all and knows nothing of my work beyond just having seen me saw down a dovetail angle. With my gent's saw still poised, they're advising me that a power router will do this

What hand tool woodworking gives me. I remember passing John's workbench one evening a week or less ago. It was dark, but the light from my work area cast a soft blush on the end of his toolbox carcass. I wasn't examining his dovetails, it was

Two and a half months have passed already, imagine! We makers just keep making and making keeps us both safe and sane. I've got three rockers under my belt, together with all the 12 new episodes it takes to make one. Plus, I also have one of my

It started with a few lines of graphite on the first page of a plain drawing pad. I never use graph paper to draw on. Too many little squares and lines. I don't need scale at this point, just my own lines and shapes. The shapeless moved from

Working on the four rocking chairs I've just been making made me conscious of exavctly how often I reach for not one plane but four, not one saw but seven, not one spokeshave but four, maybe five, and I could go on. Of course, I could manage with

I recall someone telling me that I had to teach to make a living from my craft because I couldn't and no one else could actually make a living from working with their hands. He didn't know that that was the case and nor could he.

When I arrived in the USA the first thing I did was purchase a shop full of power equipment. Like most in the trade, woodworking was mostly about efficiency and efficiency comes by using machines for every cut. Though I too relied on power to expedite my work, in some