Look out your window & I'll be gone...
I decided a while ago to leave Plimoth Plantation so I can concentrate on a range of wood-working that falls outside the guidelines of 17th-century English furniture. That work continues to fascinate me, but I've been drawn in several different directions in recent years, some re-visits of work I have done ( Read more... )

'The Woodwright's Shop Renewed for Two More Seasons

So woodworkers can look forward to two more years of the never-aging Roy as he continues to champion the power of muscle over that of the electrical machine. He’s got a point: Roy has the same axe that he used in the first season, 33 years ago. How many computers have you had in the last 33 years ( Read more... )

Another year has past, and thanks to our midwestern summer humidity, I again faced the challenges of Maintaining Gaffneyis Gear. However, I managed to improve my process somewhat.( Read more... )

Who Needs a WeedWacker When You Can Use a Scythe?

Patrick Crouch, 35, bought his [scythe] to tend a community garden on central Detroit's "urban prairie." He likes it because it's "totally brutal." As he blogged: "What could be more badass than walking the streets of the Motor City with a scythe slung over one's shoulder?"

Irish Class, June 4, 2012 Rang Gaeilge, 4ú lá Mí na Mheiteamh 2012

Dúnmharú ar an Dart
( Léigh tuilleadh )

Workshop Appliances

Since I read this blog post I have been tuning up my eggbeater drills.

Here are two of them:
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.... of The Woodwright's Shop. The introduction:

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From Get Ready for Roy!

a thread from Hammeruser.com

From the OldTools list.

Basic Sharpening Notes