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A woodworking hero
Richard applying the last touches on a finish process with too many steps to count. We’ve heard the unbelievable stories about how workers of yesteryear cranked out huge amounts of high quality work in...
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Design wisdom from another craft
Three on a hill by Barb Walker My lovely wife Barb is a painter and when the weather turns mild you can find her outside with her easel and paints. She’s helped me to see the world through a painter’s...
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Hand Tool Heaven the Movie
Here’s a sweet video about an amazing place to learn hand tool woodworking. Hope you enjoy and consider what PTSW has to offer. George R. Walker
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Blight hitting American Beech
I’m sad to report a blight is ravaging our native stands of American Beech here in the Midwest. Here’s a link to an article by Jim McCormac updating what we know right now.
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European Beech is another story
The fine folks at Horizon Wood Products in Western Pennsylvania are making available Beech blanks for making bench planes. This quarter sawn 16/4 material is European Beech (Fagus Sylvatica), not the...
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Cheap Tricks at WIA
Study of a burl mallet by Barb Walker One of the perks of being married to an artist is that we share a lot about design and the creative life. Barb’s always introducing me to her artist friends and...
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Two handled perfection
Richard Grell knows drawknives. He’s been building Windsor chairs for a living more than forty years. That’s a forest of trees sculpted into an armada of chairs. Along the way he’s tweaked and...
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Abracadabra, Make your own water
It’s not quite as magical as making your own water but it’s pretty close. Our latest book “From Truth to Tools” explores how artisan geometry was the flame that ignited the ancient builders...
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Give Your Design Skills a Boost
Dividers sketch by David Fisher. Every woodworker I know wants to get better at design. Yet it’s hard to carve out time to devote to it. Perhaps it’s because most of us go it alone. Design like any...
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