Since lockdown eased sufficiently for my woodturning tuition sessions to recommence, things have been rather busy and I’ve had to restrict the sessions to two per week; although it must be said that I’ve given Read more…
Those who know me will certainly know that I am far from comfortable with internet-based marketing, beyond keeping my web-site, Facebook and Instagram pages running, so when I was contacted by “Welsh Treasures”, with a Read more…
I was tidying-up my dry wood store a month or so ago and there was a big lump of dry ash in there, getting in the way, so I did the best thing possible to Read more…
When sawmills convert logs into planks, whether those mills are huge industrial sites or small, portable mills, the first thing they have to do to each log is to mount it onto a carriage or Read more…
“For as long as I live, I will never make a chess set!”, I once said, and when I said it, I meant it. However, several months ago I actually fancied having a go at Read more…
This month, for my article for Woodturning magazine I was supposed to be writing about steam-bending timber, but I made a last minute substitution and wrote about something far more intriguing! Several thousand years ago Read more…
Lots of bowls being turned recently. Sally and I have been working on the garden again and one of the log stores, for dry firewood, had a few interesting lumps of timber in it, so Read more…
A few weeks ago, when I was on duty at our local gallery, the gentleman who does all the picture framing for us asked me if I wanted a piece of cherry-wood……I didn’t have to Read more…
Okay, let’s forget all the nonsense associated with this year and start tomorrow afresh. As if the spring and summer lockdown wasn’t difficult enough to ride out, and the autumn “Firebreak” equally tricky, the sudden Read more…
It’s a strange word, “Craft”! On the one hand we associate it with craftsmen and we can look back to Mediæval times when stonemasons, silversmiths, tanners and many other crafts established their craft guilds, with Read more…