● Gathering
Gathering with fellow woodworkers for tool events, lectures, and demonstrations has a dynamic, up-to-date sensibility. To put it simply, they actively enhance shop life. It opens the door to … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
◾️ Saw a Little, Saw a Lot
Dovetails for Dinner
This is part 3 of a 4 part series on sawing and cutting dovetails. Last time, in part 2, I kept putting off starting at … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
◾️ Refuge
Here I am, in my wood shop – my refuge. I think about how I might lift my spirits in the midst of the turmoils of the world. Just … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
◾️ Lay Out and Cut Dovetails
Dovetails for Lunch
Lay out one dovetail. Cut one dovetail. Learn something. Do it again. Last time in part 1, I began a friendly competition with myself with … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Immortal Black Rosies
For each “Black Rosie” who served honorably, bravely, and fittingly under difficult circumstances. 🌹
Black women or Black Rosies were the unacknowledged heroines on the domestic front during World … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● A Dovetail for Breakfast
Practicing laying out and cutting dovetail joints isn’t much of a challenge. Becoming good at it is the real competition. Against who, you might say? Myself, of course.
Each … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Beyond A Simple Life
Change is the hardest thing to accept when you fear what comes as a result of it.
A Movie
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
The Scene
● What I Wish For
Midnight:01
Change. Is a word.
Nothing lasts forever. Change is life and everything in it… changes. I heard those words in my very impressionable first years when my father … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● African Roots – Anchoring
This is part 2 of a 2 part series regarding the world’s African roots.
• Anchoring: a concept in behavioral economics, which states that people often make decisions based … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● African Roots – Absorption
This is part 1 of a 2 part series regarding the world’s African roots.
• Absorption – a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Moxon Vise: the Fourth Hand
Now that I’ve claimed a seat on the dovetailing bandwagon, I have to set up my practice. I need to get a grip. A moxon vise will help satisfy … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Refresh my Memory
Just what did we fight for? Refresh my memory, please. It’s Veterans Day, right?
Women and men spent months, years, or a lifetime protecting this country’s ideals around the … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞