WOMANIST WISDOM IN THE WOOD SHOP
WOMANIST WISDOM IN THE WOOD SHOP
This is part 1 of a 2 part series regarding the world’s African roots.
• Absorption – a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid.
Terra nullius or … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Now that I’ve claimed a seat on the dovetailing bandwagon, I have to set up my practice. I need to get a grip. A moxon vise will help satisfy that requirement.
The vise, a double-jawed clamp, is temporarily affixed … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Just what did we fight for? Refresh my memory, please. It’s Veterans Day, right?
Women and men spent months, years, or a lifetime protecting this country’s ideals around the world. I was told we were fighting for freedom of … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
In my experience, tools travel better in their own traveling rolls, pouches, wraps, and sacks. Then, at anytime, they can be loaded in a canvas or leather toolmaker’s bag.
This arrangement makes me, and the tools I carry, more … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
For many people on the planet, halloween and its attendant activities will soon be here. For me still… I can’t do it. Here is why. In my mind and memory, it is truly “all hallow’s eve… 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Oh those tools! If you added a chisel to your tool kit and used it… and used it… and used it, you are wondering why it takes more effort to push the tool along the wood. Is it slipping … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Old tools like the North Brothers Yankee 1003 are irresistible. This hand-cranked bench drill press was patented in 1905. Having seen a handful of these tools in old barns and junk heaps, I want to know how such a … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Early on, before I embraced the magic of hand tools, I had a different dream. I imagined that I’d have a fully outfitted workshop. In it would be the biggest and best woodworking machines and power tools. I wanted … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
This especially resonates with me today.
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So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud shadows, passes over your … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
For some people, shop made tools are not desirable options. After all, a lot of the fun in woodworking is showing off your new tools and wood shop to your woodworking friends. Conventional thinking considers a shop full of … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
As a seamstress, I’m familiar with the saying: she who dies with the most fabric wins. Personally, I don’t want that much fabric.
As a woodworker, I don’t want the biggest stash of hand tools, either. Is a … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
