| | 11/25/2020 | |  Our local grocery’s background music playlist has shifted to all Christmas tunes, so it’s not too soon to talk about holiday shopping. In this tumultuous year, when we all could use a gift even more than usual, gift giving is going to be a bit trickier.
I think it’s worth a moment to discuss picking a woodworking gift, the issues we are having with supply this year and delivery problems...more.. | |
| 11/11/2020 | |  The Gramercy Tools Spoonmaker's Drawknife comes sharp and ready to use but over time you will have to resharpen it. Small drawknives of all kinds pose a sharpening challenge - their handles can get in the way when you sharpen. Even the Gramercy Tools Spoonmaker's Drawknife , which has the least interfering handles of any drawknife on the market, still has handles which get in the way when you...more.. | |
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| | 11/19/2020 By Yoav Liberman | |  In my last blog entry I talked about how I teach my students to draw and then shave a cylinder at the end of a small piece of Basswood in preparations four forming a sphere. This is part of their platonic solids main lesson class. After the cylinder has been shaved we first carve away the so-called northern hemisphere of the sphere and then deal with the southern hemisphere.
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| 10/30/2020 | |  Sloyd knives like these from Ben & Lois Orford are traditional straight knives for carving spoons and other figured objects that come in a variety of shapes and sizes
Last time we took raw stock and turned it into a very rough spoon shaped object. This time now that you have your spoon roughed out, it is time to turn it into, well, a spoon. Carving your final spoon is basically the same process...more.. | |
| 10/16/2020 By Joe Samalin | |  Once the spoon blank is roughed out the sculpting can start. This is a first look at the new Gramercy Tools spoon carver's draw knife which I used not just for details but also some of the rough work here.
Once you have a piece of wood with which to start carving your spoon, you need to take it from whatever shape and size it is down to a roughed out spoon blank. Basically this is exactly what...more.. | |
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| | | 08/30/2018 | |  Like most people, we spend lots of time (way too much time) surfing the web, entranced by various videos. In Video Roundup, we offer some videos from all over the world that we found especially intriguing.
This week’s selections focus on Medieval carpentry techniques. Hand tools indeed!
Early Medieval Timber Work
Medieval Carpentry - Building Without Nails...more.. | |
| 08/23/2018 | |  Like most people, we spend lots of time (way too much time) surfing the web, entranced by various videos. In Video Roundup, we offer some videos from all over the world that we found especially intriguing.
This week’s selections focus on the ornate and exquisite furniture made by David Roentgen (1743-1807) -- and its secret compartments and ingenious portability.
The Roentgens' Berlin...more.. | |
| 08/16/2018 | |  Like most people, we spend lots of time (way too much time) surfing the web, entranced by various videos. In Video Roundup, we offer some videos from all over the world that we found especially intriguing.
This week’s selections focus traditional woodworking in Sweden - traditional axe making and the trifecta of clogs, spoons and chairs.
Traditional Swedish Woodworking: Clogs, Spoons and...more.. | |
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Greetings Workateers! Our fourth and final volume has come to a close and so has the Work Magazine...more.. | |
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The editions of Work mag we have here in the shop often have the ads removed but the last couple...more.. | |
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