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Perseverance is everything, especially in the face of adversity. The book above is one of 34 we plan to print that I have written over the past twenty years. It's taken me 20 years to get to this dream point but all the machines for printing and publishing

...90% of woodworking is knowing how to fix your mistakes. When a man starts working wood to live off what he earns, making becomes a resource to others. This is mostly because what he makes improves the life of another in some way, large or small. Being a solution is

There is an exclusivity I see in all walks of life where one group disregards others who don't feel as the other group or groups do. It's funny how we use the term 'exclusive' to describe something ultra special. 'He's wearing

...55 years later. I told you the story about the man who ended up with gappy mitres to his architraves. How George helped me to see the true picture. Here is the story if you missed it. Well, I recalled this when I saw this gap in a hinge on

It was George that taught me so much at the bench over the years. But it wasn't so much about the woodworking as it was about human kindness. I've told you how a couple of the other men at the other benches were often disparaging about

I often find that the small and ordinary can take on the large to become more than extraordinary. My toolbox here is one I designed and developed and perfected to displace the plywood-skinned versions that cropped up around the Second World War up until say the 1980s where and when

Well, is there a future for apprenticing? Not much of one. I lament the reality that many who would learn the craft and art of furniture-making must get the basics by spending £30,000 on a degree course often taught by people who never made a living from doing it