Some years ago I found a Workmate 225 at a garage sale. It was unassembled and still in its original box. The price was right, so I bought it. Not needing it immediatedly, I put it in our back yard shed. Looking back on the event, that was a mistake.
Years ago I started making a knife from a file. I put the project aside, but when Mia and I started watching Forged in Fire earlier this year I was inspired to pick it up again.
Knife as of Dec. 1 2021. File initially ground into knife. Started from an 18″ file. Prior to December 2021 I had ground it into this shape.
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Look out your window & I’ll be gone…
I decided a while ago to leave Plimoth Plantation so I can concentrate on a range of wood-working that falls outside the guidelines of 17th-century English furniture. That work continues to fascinate me, but I’ve been drawn in several different directions in recent years, some re-visits of work I have done before (baskets, spoons, bowls) some new areas I hope to explore. A book to finish, for example. And other stuff.
‘The Woodwright’s Shop Renewed for Two More Seasons
So woodworkers can look forward to two more years of the never-aging Roy as he continues to champion the power of muscle over that of the electrical machine. He’s got a point: Roy has the same axe that he used in the first season, 33 years ago. How many computers have you had in the last 33 years? And how well do you think they would endure a whack from Roy’s axe? I thought so.
Another year has past, and thanks to our midwestern summer humidity, I again faced the challenges of Maintaining Gaffneyis Gear. However, I managed to improve my process somewhat. Continue reading
Who Needs a WeedWacker When You Can Use a Scythe?
Patrick Crouch, 35, bought his [scythe] to tend a community garden on central Detroit’s “urban prairie.” He likes it because it’s “totally brutal.” As he blogged: “What could be more badass than walking the streets of the Motor City with a scythe slung over one’s shoulder?”
Irish Class, June 4, 2012
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Since I read this blog post I have been tuning up my eggbeater drills.
Here are two of them:
Pictures and discussion behind cut
…. of The Woodwright’s Shop. The introduction:
From Get Ready for Roy!
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 