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I'm convinced that sawing and planing is much more than separating a single piece of wood into two or more pieces, and that planing is more than levelling and smoothing. I know that a lot of people woodworking have the more pragmatic dogma that surely the end result

Is watching glue dry the same as watching and waiting for paint to dry; both have a way of postponing progress, when both, in their own way, are actually the progressing action of moving things forward. The inference in the common saying, "It's like watching paint dry.

The handle for the dressing table/computer desk came on a spur of the moment. I definitely did not want to buy something in, and I didn't want to turn them on the lathe, though that is always an option. I saw a couple of strips of offcuts

I designed the doorknob below in early January 2009 for a special job I was engaged in, but a friend turner actually turned the six I needed. This one is the original prototype. The woods are ebony and oak and whereas it's the ebony that's more

This is my dovetailed housing dado. I think you will like trying it out. Another joint emerges from a maker who's conscious of loss in handwork to his craft. In the moment, he decides on a new-ish joint. It's an off-the-cuff decision made in seconds intended

... The Hidden Gems of pure joy in creating your own hand-cut joinery can seem all the more lost in the modernity of today's methodology surrounding joint making and joinery, but when the hands cut and shape every part using the maker's energy, something changes forever in

In thinking about a new USA President about to come, I was reminded of a Craft Fair on the weekend of Thanksgiving in 2008 where I sat with a man, a friend, who I had known for eighteen years. We were having a nice chat when a message came to