Monday, December 18, 2023

Sunday, December 17, 2023

In the Beginning

I was indeed on my own and I felt it. The isolation of being different and living your beliefs is by its very nature usually, mostly, isolating. People, others, don’t feel like you do. Not really. It’s just a job. Nothing more. You work for pay and not for craft and yet I see craft...

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Saturday, December 16, 2023

Educating Lazy Owners . . .

. . . or more likely those whose lives are simply super-busy ones. Owning handmade furniture is not to just buy the piece we make but to educate owners as to the best way to treat it when it arrives so that they own it well. Our work is not mass-made for masses to own...

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Monday, December 11, 2023

Finding Yourself

I just read a book written by someone trying to establish a sense of belonging. Throughout the book, the writer strove to establish the reality of being isolated in communities by the communities in which the writer was “born and bred.” There was a cruelness to it as is mostly the case with bigotry and...

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Saturday, December 9, 2023

You Never Know

Assumptions often mislead us; our own and others. In a world more and more devoid of crafting artisans, men and women making to live by, working as I have and in some measure still do, it seems logical that, as with my using the term new-genre woodworkers, we see emerging a micro-mass of new-genre artisans...

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Remarkable Invention

As I walk through the streets of Oxford before the lunchtime food providers open their doors, I am always fascinated by the lines of upturned exposure of the undersides of chairs and stools used for cafe seating, In this case, it’s the ingenious multi-grooved spindle moulder cuts in the backs of chair rails just to...

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Saddle’s Still Warm

That’s to say I am doing well, great, better than I thought I would be by now, my hands have been fixed by the surgeon and staff at Pulvertaft Hand Centre and so I thank them and thank you for all of the support and well-wishing over the past few weeks. The Dupuytren’s contracture on...

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