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... )

Take a clove of Garlic…

A cold day in Minnesota, -4oF/-20oC. I had the day off, but it was too cold to go anywhere. So I did a woodworking experiment. I had this homemade cane, about a yard long:
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'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... )

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!

"People in the 18th century were trying to find the beauty in wood. People in the 17th century were trying to hide it." - Jennie Alexander, one of authors of Make a Joint Stool from a Tree (great book, BTW).

Marks of Civilization.

From Lost Art Press.

I loved them both.

Make a Joint Stool from a Tree: An Introduction to 17th-century Joinery

The Woodwright's Shop: Elizabethan Joint Stool with Peter Follansbee and Megan Fitzpatrick (Why didn't PBS list her?). As you might expect, there are several references to Shakespeare in the video.