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A Guide Like No Other I'm more an advocate for freehand sharpening because of the speed and efficiency it gives me. My chisel and plane irons come 95% that way, and I'm more an advocate for developing methods that rely on our developing skill and mastery

It's the way that the grain twists and turns and then, at an abrupt arris, the growth rings people sometimes call annual rings take off at unpredictable angles as though unable to make up their minds when they grew in their wildness. And then, just as abruptly, without

I finally concluded my dressing table/work desk or whatever use you care to put to it that names it. Realistically, it's about two weeks work, so no point starting it as a Christmas present now. My weeks are around six day-weeks of 60 hours. This piece comprises

In the closing of yet another work week, and I have closed 3,120 of them to date, that's 18,720 working days, I find myself filled with gratitude. I doubt that out of all of those days, I have had 100 sick days or any of those

. . . Hand Surgery Update It's been a year since the surgery on my hands. One doctor said don't do it and another said do. The conflict was the timing. I continued without surgery for three additional years, and then the time came that seemed right to me.

In woodworking, we often encounter multiple components requiring a dozen shoulder lines to joints that must be equidistant within a tight fraction of a millimetre. A pencil mark may well be an adequate first guide, but splitting the line is not definitive enough. T what point do you decide to

The things we woodworkers do to jig up for a tablesaw process or all the more to expedite cuts with a power router is phenomenal. If we'd mastered using just a few hand tools, setting them, training our bodies and minds to use them, life would be so