● Roubo and Me – Part 2
In the last post, Roubo and Me – part 1, I was working on a workbench based on Roubo’s plate 11 drawings. Did it come to fruition?
● Roubo and Me – Part 1
Years before I had a woodworking bench, I used a work table made of a hinged, folded sheet of 3/4″ plywood on two shop made sawhorses. This was the … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Kwanzaa and the End of a Decade
In light of the extraordinary times you, I, and the world are experiencing, I am offering, with gratitude today, this post which I wrote at the end of … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Cultural Heritage Repossessed
Most scholars of history, no matter who or what they claim as their cultural heritage, trust.
They trust facts validated by experts in their respective fields. Doubt and uncertainty … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
◾️ Prince of a Frame Saw
A frustrating practice in the shop is “whittling” down a thicker piece of wood to get a thin panel of wood or veneer. It takes a lot of work … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Back in the Wood Shop – part 1
This is my recollection of how I settled in after I got back to the wood shop – part 1. Rarely does an interruption in my general routine take … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Finding My Club
Acting on the desire to start a blog, let alone about woodworking, is a dilemma itself. You hear that you should establish a club or start a blog to … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Student Becomes the Teacher
We are born students in a classroom. For some of us, mama and papa are our first teachers. Life is the classroom. Life is the subject.
I find … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞