I remember Mr Cheapy arriving in his blue minivan, and I mean the true Mini minivan–two seats in the front, touching both door windows with your shoulders, and the meter behind being a flat-floored, tin-sided van with no frills, padding or anything else. It was always loaded with tools, many seconds quality with minor defects …
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In my other real garage workshop, the one at Sellers’ home, I found myself fighting several issues surrounding systemic dampness permeating everything from the single-skin brick walls to concrete floors with no damp proof membrane, a bad drainage system that simply stopped at ground level and the internal level of the garage floor being at …
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“Boy!” Jack Collins shouted from his bench at the far end of the shop. I sprang to a run from a gentle saunter and George’s, “Woohoo!” encouraged me to ‘Go quick‘. “Clean up!” His arm’s wide sweep meant the whole shop needed the shavings swept up, bagged and then burned. I was glad it was …
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Below are the only tools I used for making the furniture pieces for Sellers’ Home. I am putting this list in one place with some minor explanations for everyone to consider how my work continues to reach and influence woodworkers around the world. The important thing for me has been to show how an ordinary …
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Knife Hinges can be intimidating at first glance but if you take a systematic approach to installing them, it’s a breeze. And your results will be predictable and perfect every time.
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Walnut I looked after I planed. Glimpsed first. Stopped. Looked again as if looking back at what caught my eye, stopped me in my tracks. And lifted the wood closer to look inside the pores I’d just opened with my plane’s last stroke to where no man had ever seen before, been before and I …
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Door handle, tool handle, handling a workload and even your handle as in the name you go by all link to the human hand with which we grip, hold, seize, snatch and grab. Thimble came from the word thumb and spindle from the word spin. In our work as makers of furniture and woodenware or …
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His hands were as big as he was tall “Plates of meat!” the other men called ‘em. They swallowed the plane handle inside those mits and I defied any grain or knot to answer back when he swiped it along the length and breadth of an ugly board of wood beit oak, walnut, cherry or …
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Over the years I have seen how rehandling existing handles can markedly improve the efficiency and energy of hand tools and customising them reduces the energy it takes to use them. The ultra-inexpensive Spear & Jackson 9500R traditional skew back panel saw, 22″ x 10pts costing £16 with free delivery via Amazon.co.uk is the most …
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It takes about half an hour to reshape a chisel handle of the type I have been using for the past years. The ones I am using and changing here I have only been using for about a year but they are identical to my twelve-year-old Aldi chisels you seem unable to buy any more; …
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The Summer Sale has begun in the Wood Whisperer Guild and that means it’s time to save…..wait for it…..50%!!! Use the code SUMMERFUN at checkout. Limit two projects per customer. The sale ends Sunday, June 5th!
*The sale does not combine with other offers and excludes courses that were released this year (2022) including the Littleton Console, SketchUp: Beyond the Basics, Kumiko Lamp, and the Traveling Anarchist’s Tool Chest.*
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I often wonder where reinventing your life came from but I do get that sometimes, maybe often, we have to walk away from a past, past concepts and look to a future we might not be able to wholly predict. There is a singular anchor in my life that still holds firm after almost 60 …
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50% OFF in the Wood Whisperer Guild! Use coupon code SUMMERFUN on up to two project courses. Courses from 2022 are excluded. Sale ends June 5th.
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Finally we have resolution to the foreclosure scare in the last video. I also show you how I dismantle the walls I installed in front of my garage doors and give you some quick tips for packing up various items in the shop.
Here are some things I showcased in the video:
The material life I purchased is the Sumner 2010 and the vendor I purchased from no longer has them listed on their site. So shop around if you’re interested.
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We are approaching the uniquely special day when we Brits will celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee year as our reigning monarch of Great Britain. Her faithfulness has never been challenged though not everyone agrees with royalty and all that pertains to it. For me, it is the acknowledgment of stick-with-it-ness: a made-up mind that gets you …
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