Drilling and stamping.
One thing you discover with power tools is that you can do a lot of things more powerfully and much quicker Continue reading Windsor Chair course Day 8
Drilling and stamping.
One thing you discover with power tools is that you can do a lot of things more powerfully and much quicker Continue reading Windsor Chair course Day 8
I think I blinked and missed some sort of Grand Final in all the excitement of chair making. There is in fact nothing else but chair making. Continue reading Windsor Chair making Day 7
More shaping, more finesse, more detail.
Each stick had to be made to a certain measurement. Not so much a Continue reading Windsor Chair Day 6
Rumor was that Day 4 was the day that people started hitting the wall. And a perpendicular brick structure we did indeed impact. Arms and legs Continue reading Windsor Chair Day 4
Then we knuckle down to the body of chair making, the quantity of my photos diminish along with my memory of the events of that day. To do a 10 day course, it becomes a reality Continue reading Windsor Chair course Day 3
Day 2 was pretty much an extension of day one, in that we further honed our stick making skills. I would never Continue reading Windsor Chair Course Day 2
Before I knew it, Sarah had enrolled us into a Windsor Chair making course. The sublimely excellent Howard Archbold generously made space for Continue reading Windsor Chair Course Day 1
I’m pretty chuffed that my TARDIS notoriety has spread. After 2 years of being harangued Continue reading TARDIS visitors
It seems like it’s taken forever to get this far. I was hoping to be almost completed in the grand Blackwood project by now, but from idea, to plan, to execution, to completion seems to take twice, sometimes triple the time Continue reading Blackwood shelving
I was contemplating a press for Anna’s lino cuts and other prints. As a hobby, it’s no different to any other in that equipment is rare, specialised, highly sought and commensurately priced. The cheapest (being a bit over a grand) was not unworthy and if you take into account how much I spend on my own hobbies, probably underpriced. Continue reading Anna’s birthday present