I skipped Pennsbury yesterday and spent the day carving instead. When I began my Chippendale chair project, I under estimated how much I would enjoy carving. Sounds a little funny...
A shooting board is one of the most essential accessories for a handplane , everyone should have one. But not every woodworker is confident enough to build one or isn’t...
ON THE 21ST OF JANUARY 2008 TIMBER FLOODED THE SMALL SEASIDE TOWN OF WORTHING WEST SUSSEX ENGLAND. 2000 TONS OF MIX TIMBER MAINLY 6 X 2 INCH HIT US.AND BUILDERS FROM...
I’m near Philadelphia this week teaching at Acanthus Workshops. This is Chuck Bender’s woodworking school. (You know Chuck, he wrote the “Carving Spanish Feet” article in [...]
SOME OF THE COBALT TOOLS I USE TO TURN PLUS SOMETIMES I USE THE ZEUS BOOK FOR FINER GRINDING FOR INTRICATE TURNING ITS THE IDEAL TOOL ROOM BOOK.THIS VERSION IS...
I have three favorite jokes. One of them starts out with, “What’s brown and sticky?” The second one is from journalism school. It goes like so: “People complain about bias...
In the world of backsaws, almost all the modern makers have perfected their version of a dovetail saw. But when it comes to tenon saws, things are all over the...
You’d think I’d know better. But being in desperate need of one place where I could store and easily access all my music CDs, I was seduced by the clearance...
Growing up in Arkansas, it seemed we had two kinds of wood: yellow pine and pine that was yellow. I didn’t really start to understand the crazy diversity of lumber...
