Handling More

It’s my seventh day since my hand surgery and the advice sheet from the Pulvertaft Hand Cebtre in Derby and Burton NHS Hospital said, ‘Plan to avoid activities which involve strong grip for one to two weeks after the procedure as the hand [s] may be a little tender. However, you will not do yourself...

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Being Real With Each Other

I wrote recently on beech wood and spoke of what I might see and describe as more soulless methods of making in the sense and mix of it giving very little if any sensory feedback. It wasn’t to open a conversation so much as to try to explain why we hand-tool woodworkers handle our materials...

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More Than Cool Enough

It’s still dark now as it’s just 6 a.m. I still do not feel nervous and that is because for several days I did and that’s over. I booked my taxi to the hospital for 6.30. It’s a 20-minute drive and I wanted a hedge as a margin for traffic or something else going wrong....

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I’m Cool Enough . . .

. . . . at least on the outside! Confronting doubts and fears can be for outward appearances when inside something is churning away and you’re not altogether sure why. I slept well, opened my eyes at my usual; 5.15 A.M. start to my day, but it wasn’t to be in my usual direction for...

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All About That Grain! | Legs and Rails | Sideboard Series Pt 1

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Stuff I Used:

• Taper Maker Hardware Kit
• Festool Domino
• Festool OF1400 Router
• 1/4″ Upspiral Bit
• Titebond Extend
• Dovetail Bit
• Milwaukee Die Grinder
• Cove Bit
• Preppin Weapon Sanding Block
• Milwaukee Compact Router

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So Much Extra! | Walnut & Copper Sideboard

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Stuff I Used:

• Taper Maker Hardware Kit
• Festool Domino
• Festool OF1400 Router
• 1/4″ Upspiral Bit
• Titebond Extend
• Dovetail Bit
• Milwaukee Die Grinder
• Cove Bit
• Preppin Weapon Sanding Block
• Milwaukee Compact Router

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Understanding Joints – How Best To Combine Them

I think sometimes, often, we fail to see the unionising of different joints, failing to devise our own types but then how best to combine them in projects. My research spanning six decades has taught me many things and especially with joinery. Principally, I always wanted to see inside furniture to understand, yes, how something...

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When the Gift Box IS the Gift! | Wine Box

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There’s really nothing like a handmade gift for the holidays. Nicole and I teamed up to make a few beautiful wine boxes featuring a finger joints and a lasered image, all in the style of a Japanese tool box.

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Stuff I Used in the Video:

• Backside Sandpaper
• Mahoney’s Polymerized Walnut Oil
• Titebond Hide Glue
• Titebond Speedset Glue
• Incra Miter 5000 Sled

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Making Wood Work

Throughout history, making tools of all types has always been a part of many a woodworker’s life. The ones that were skilled enough to produce levels of excellence surpassing other woodworkers became tool makers. they established patterns of work and design that exemplified levels of refinement other woodworkers wanted. Instead of being just carpenters they...

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My Hands Need Work

It’s pouring with rain this morning but I rode my bike anyway. The forecast seems to me to be rarely very accurate and I am glad that this is something the scientists can only confirm what is mostly taking place and cannot influence future weather more than they think they can predict it. My cycling...

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Drying Down or Drying Up

There really is no one measure-fits-all all wood types when it comes to its moisture content. Green wood in the tree at the point of severance from its root can vary between around 30 to 300 per cent depending on the wood or tree type, the location of moisture in the stem and the season...

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You Can’t Judge Some Woods . . .

. . . by their cover. My wood stacks come from long planks that needed straightening for joints before joints could be made. The joints rely on straight edges to two adjacent faces trued first by hand planes and opposite faces sawn parallel by saw and planed smooth too. This has been my way for...

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Tolerances In Wood

I’m working, planing and thinking or is it the other way around? Attention in two tasks is always an alternating process and never truly bipartisan in that usually the ability to concentrate on two or more high-demand tasks soon obviates deferment one to other in measured exchanges according to priority. I switch between three planes...

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