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Project “more than I can chew” part 2
When pounding on iron, it might be a good idea to STOP when your arm is so fatigued that you can’t hit it where you want to… I took my pile of iron and steel scrap and I have made a “stock knife shaped object” (SKSO?). this: into this: like I said, I only…
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Project “more than I can chew” commenses
Hi; if you know me, you know this isn’t unusual. if you don’t know me, then you will come to realise this is so: for this week’s episode of “biting off more than I can chew”, I am looking at old leaf springs and my little forge… What I want to end up with is…
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Inkle loom
Yeah, I know, Everyone has made an Inkle loom… this is just my turn 😉 My better half used to do a bit of card weaving back when she was in college and has several times mentioned that if she ever “had time” she would like to do some once again. but she has no…
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more overdue work
another overdue project finished: beech with purpleheart scales, 75 lb spring steel prod, corian nut. be well
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Geometry et Trigonometry
it was math so a lot of people didn’t pay much attention. and there was a lot of “I’m never going to need this” nonsense going on at my school… But now you need it: well a little of it. you can do a lot with a little. squares and circles: the geometric relationship between…
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Photo gallery
I’m sure there is a way to make up a photo gallery of my work here… I just don’t know how to yet 😉 rolling pin advertising board for sign carving door casing corner bosses mahogany settle bear and elephants dartbord case more on another day: be well all K
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Bartram’s Gardens
I went for a little walk today at a place called Bartram’s Gardens in the city of Philadelphia, PA. It seems that Mr Bartram was a botanist/horticulturalist that made his name selling and shipping seeds to people in Europe. they have some bees and some interesting buildings and pleasant grounds, might be a nice…
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The Broken Tradition.
I am thinking of changing the name of this blog to “The Broken Tradition” In part, our tradition of woodworking spans thousands of years into a past where stones were the cutting edge of technology (all puns intended) The efforts of colonizing the Americas were at best sporadic and frequently poorly planned.. our early history…
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Book Review
Well, I don’t need to teach woodworking classes anymore. There are a lot of great books on woodworking out there. But the new collected works of Charles H. Hayward (The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Tools & Techniques vol’s 1 & 2) available from Lost Arts Press is so complete that I feel that I…
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A BOX FULL OF TOOLS.
ALL OF THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO MAKE ANYTHING! Hi; I have decided to post my list of tools that I advise people to buy for my woodworking classes. The list is actually very short. Yet I do insist that with just these tools you can build everything. Other tools can make certain jobs easier,…
The Broken Tradition
my musings on woodworking and other things I do.