Toolmaking Art

As craftsmen, artists and gardeners, hand tool users who take joy in creation, we stand in reasonable shape to pass on our treasures to our grandchildren and even to strangers unknown who may marvel at the care and thought of those ancient hand craftsmen in the 21st century. This thought comforts me. This [...]

I have waded through a lot of discussions about copies being made of other tool designs. It is quite interesting to see where people stand. It seems that there are several issues that divide how we think about these things. The variations on ethic make this a [...]

Until you run a blog, there is an entire family of spam you never see. Stuff with pages of links to all the stuff they normally spam you on are common. In any case they have links that lead back to sites you really don’t want to see. Often they [...]

I just this week read a post about fleam over on Popular Woodworking. Aparently Colonial Williamsberg does not put fleam on their saws, since there is no evidence of fleam on saws in Colonial America.
This got me to thinking, Tage Frid, an expert among experts,  liked to use a ripsaw  for cutting dovetails across grain.  [...]

In researching  Shakespeare I have gathered quite  a bit of  odd data.  Some of  this I have put into a chronology of sorts.  Let me  warn you that while  I have  made every effort to be  accurate, I cannot with all  honesty say that original sources from the time of Shakespeare are all that accurate.  [...]