● A Dovetail for Breakfast
Practicing laying out and cutting dovetail joints isn’t much of a challenge. Becoming good at it is the real competition. Against who, you might say? Myself, of course.
Each … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Beyond A Simple Life
Change is the hardest thing to accept when you fear what comes as a result of it.
A Movie
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
The Scene
● What I Wish For
Midnight:01
Change. Is a word.
Nothing lasts forever. Change is life and everything in it… changes. I heard those words in my very impressionable first years when my father … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● African Roots – Anchoring
This is part 2 of a 2 part series regarding the world’s African roots.
• Anchoring: a concept in behavioral economics, which states that people often make decisions based … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● African Roots – Absorption
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Moxon Vise: the Fourth Hand
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Refresh my Memory
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Rolls, Pouches, Wraps, and Sacks
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.… 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● October Flower
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Catch Up Sharpening
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
◾️ North Brothers Yankee 1003
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● The Magic of Hand Tools
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞