Is a delightful stop motion animation movie about how artisans from antiquity to the dawn of the industrial age carried out design – in a nutshell, arithmetic trumped the simple geometric relationships of natural — that rational numbers. ...
[twentytwenty] [/twentytwenty] We don’t watch a lot of TV, but we do like to watch those Fixer Upper shows, due mainly because of the ideas they inspire in us, and February seems to be a good month, in this part of the world, to work inside on house...
Two additional, specialized, planes to add to your tool chest – – the Scrub Plane and the Toothing Plane. The Scrub Plane (Stanley No 40) is used to remove large quantities of wood in a short period of time. Working diagonally or across the grain. It is...
I am not a handtool purest – I use power tools when needed, but there are many traditional hand tool only woodworkers out there, perhaps the most well known is Roy Underhill of the Woodwright Shop. But this week I stumbled upon Chop with Chris. Chris is a...
Latest project is a custom oak kitchen cabinet. As with all my projects, I start with a sketch, usually on any piece of paper I have at hand – With this sketch, I discuss with the client any changes and confirm measurements, and then go from there… With...
I was asked today where the picture at the bottom of the newsletter is from? It is actually a cropped image form Plate 11 from A.J. Roubo’s “L’Art du menuisier” You may recall this is the gentleman who’s bench I modeled mine on in the French Bench Build. Here is...
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