A Makers Year No11. Old Men and their Tools, part 1
Old Men and their Tools Part One It’s perhaps ambitious at the age of 65 to be ordering a new set of chisels. And I haven’t gone that far, but I have ordered two or three. In the late 1970’s when Jim...
View ArticleMakers Year No 12 Old Men and their Tools. part 2
Old Men and their Tools Part Two Removing the hoop is a little bit of a game as these are pretty well seated. But tapping around it with a small nail set appeared to do the job. I then gripped the...
View ArticleA makers year No 13. Sun Burst Veneering
Sun Burst Veneers One of the things we have to do for this job in Dubai is two relatively small trays that sit on what I can only call upholstered low “poufes”. These are to be veneered on a sunburst...
View ArticleA Makers Year 16: Things that go wrong 1
THINGS THAT GO WRONG I promised I would show you the things that go wrong as well as the things that go right. This is a table that broke in half in the back of my car. YEP! That sounds improbable...
View ArticleFrame cramp, Repairing self inflicted damage: A Makers Year 31
SAWING To REMOVE THE LID. As I turned over the job in the vice to saw the second side, so releasing the lid, I had to loosen the vice or it would have crushed the kerf I’d just sawn and so trapped...
View ArticleBlack Polish
We received an interesting e-mail from a fellow woodworker who was interested in the use of Black Polish to re-finish an old Piano. Hi David, I have an interesting dilemma, I need to re-finish an old...
View ArticleFrench Polishing
Hello! One of our customers who had ordered a French Polishing Kit had a couple enquiries about applying the Polish. Removing old finishes and applying the new Shellac to the surface. This can be quite...
View ArticleInlays… (1): A Makers Year 54
Hurry hurry hurry… I miss this! I miss the adrenaline of hard commercial deadlines. Running a teaching workshop after nearly 40 years making furniture is, in comparison, slow and steady. And it needs...
View ArticleA question about glue
Hello everyone. Not too long ago we received an email from a happy customer about our DVDs that he had purchased from our Christmas offer. More specifically about the gluing up process: Greetings Mr....
View ArticleVeneering Dilemma
Hello Another happy customer of our DVDs asks a question about veneering: Hi David, my wife bought me your DVD on hammer veneering a while ago which I enjoyed immensely and also learned a great deal...
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