Larry | February 25, 2010
Less than a month ago I broke down and bought a new coat. This is only significant if you understand that for the past couple years I’ve been wearing a coat that, each time I needed to zip it up, I had to fight with a zipper that was well past its prime. My office [...]
Larry | February 22, 2010
I’ve been a blogger for a bit more than a year. I never thought of it as a money-making venture and, in fact, it’s lived up to those expectations. But if you’re on the Internet you can’t help but notice that there are lots of people making, or at least claiming to make, lots of [...]
Larry | February 10, 2010
Sometimes I wonder about myself. I’ve been a woodworker for a long time but like so many, I did most of my early woodworking by flipping a switch. But I’m a guy and guys like tools. The notion of having an excuse to dig through piles of rust at flea markets was appealing
So somewhere in [...]
Larry | February 8, 2010
First let me apologize for the “pre-release” of his blog post. It was just me screwing up posting dates. Anyways, here it is…with words and pictures.
I’ve been distracted from the shop, playing Mr. Fix-It, and my woodworking time has been spent navel gazing and some doing some sketching as my aged brain grapples with what [...]
Larry | January 22, 2010
You know you’re a left-handed woodworker when you prefer your face vise on the right end of your bench. The photo above demonstrates this. That’s Shannon Rogers, the Renaissance Woodworker, showing everyone his newly completed and totally awesome Roubo-style bench. It’s built from ash and weighs about a gazillion pounds so it’s hard to understand [...]
Larry | January 15, 2010
“The venerable woodworker stood, trembling – looking into the abyss of his ‘to be wood plane.’ What he saw scared him speechless – no cross-pin.”
Yes, this is where the last post, part one of this saga, ended. Finck actually warns you to remember to install the cross-pin during glue up and I was so proud [...]
Larry | January 14, 2010
Sometimes my buying habits are embarrassing. At last count I owned 4 books and a DVD on how to build wooden planes. I have a Hock blade for making a chisel plane, bought as a “response” to the Fine Woodworking construction article. I have a Hock blade/chip breaker, bought shortly after I bought David Finck’s [...]
Larry | January 7, 2010
In my last post on this subject I outlined my strategy to become as good a woodworker as Tom Fidgen. Having concluded, from studying his book Made By Hand, that he’s achieved his prowess by having a set of shop bents available to him I decided to build a set of my own, thus improving [...]
Larry | January 5, 2010
Tom Fidgen’s new book, Made By Hand has become my constant companion, at least that’s how it seems. It’s the closest I’ll get to an apprenticeship with a woodworker who works in ways I want to work.
One of the things I’ve noticed is that Tom is a much better woodworker than I am. The natural [...]
Larry | December 16, 2009
If you’ve been following my blog you know that one of my current projects is a hanging cabinet that will house a spoon collection. I’m at the fiddly stage. All the basic construction is done and I’m dealing with hinging, wall mounts bracketry, door magnets – the fiddly things. In many ways this is the [...]
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