Despite my butchering of their language last year, the German tool company Dictum asked me to return this week to teach two classes at its new workshop in Niederalteich, a small village in [...]
TO ALL YOU YOUNG SCHOOL LEAVERS .WHO ARE THINKING OF GOING INTO CONSTRUCTION..I DO KNOW THE JOB RATE IS LOW FOR JOBS WORLD WIDE EVEN HERE IN THE UK..BUT IN MY EXPERIENCE. IF YOU DO GO [...]
SIMPLE WEEKEND PROJECT. SIMPLE TOOLS PLUS A KNOWLEDGE OF WOOD WORK.. ANY DIY MAN CAN DO THIS.. COST IF YOU USE RECLAIMED TIMBER $3 CHEAP PLUS YOUR TIME…2 HOURS MAX TO [...]
SCAFFOLD PLANKS THAT WERE MACHINED EARLIER,HAVE COME IN HANDY AS STAIR TREADS.RECLAIMED TIMBER ALWAYS COMES IN HANDY FOR ANY JOB IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR GOING TO DO WITH IT..…
SLIDING BLOCK ,SAME AS OTHER BUT WITH BLOCK.THIS SLIDES UP AND DOWN THIS CAN BE MADE FROM DIFFERENT WOODS BUT THIS IS JUST A TRIAL PIECE.WELL IT IS FRIDAY .ALL PIECES SOLID TIMBER AS ALWAYS NO [...]
THESE ARE FROM THE TIMBER YARD,EVERY OTHER DAY WHATS OVER FROM THE RADIAL SAW THEY THROW AWAY SO HAVE ASKED IF I COULD HAVE ODDS AND ENDS.GOT THESE PINE SLICES 9 INCH X 12+ INCHES LONG X 3 TO 5 [...]
PINE 4X4 INCH BLOCKS AND A WOOD LATHE..WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH OFF CUTS.OF 4X4 INCH POST.ONCE LATHE IS SET UP AND BLOCKS CUT TO SIZE.TAKES 5 MINUTES .TO MAKE ONE.WITH LOADING BLOCKS ONTO LATHE YOU [...]
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH OLD SKATEBOARDS. A GOOD OLD CLEAN UP TO BARE WOOD THEN .MAYBE STAIR CASE TREADS…..???? IDEAS FROM AROUND THE WORLD…..SKATE BOARDING IN THE UK IS COMING [...]
After hours and hours and hours of work (please, some kind soul, send Vodka), I was finally able to get “Handplane Essentials,” by Christopher Schwarz, into a PDF format that plays [...]
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