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This morning I came into the workshop really wanting to work on something, but I couldn’t really think what. I pulled out a rough sawn piece of blackwood that was left over from my table, sharpened up my plane, and set to work making shavings. I didn’t have an aim of making anything at all, [...]
[Keywords: flattening, Joseph Whitworth, planing, woodwork] [No comments] [Permanent link]
To be in touch — in contact — with the wood is a wonderful thing; the dust, shavings and sweat blackening my hands; reveling in intimacy with the tree, giving part of myself in exchange for what I am making. Running my hand over the wood, sweeping the shavings off the bench with my skin, [...]
[Keywords: closeness, emotion, physicality, wood, woodwork] [No comments] [Permanent link]
In which I put little inlays over nail holes. Thus far today I have been installing little squares of inlay to cover the nail holes in the box sides. It’s fun work, quite exacting but calm and easy. I’m enjoying myself. I finished the inlaying just after lunch and moved on to planing grooves in [...]
[Keywords: box, inlaying, planing, woodwork] [No comments] [Permanent link]
An afternoon of a book, a cafe, a friend, much good talking and only a little work done. William Morris’ lectures on Art and Socialism from the last quarter of the 19th century kept me company in a juice bar in town this afternoon, but only for a short while before the noise got to [...]
[Keywords: decoration, quotations, William Morris, woodwork] [No comments] [Permanent link]
[Keywords: box, Making, visual diary, woodwork, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I won’t fill you in on the background of anything; I have to start sometime, and it might as well be now. The box is coming along well, better this afternoon once I gave up for the time being trying to make A Thing to cut trunnels. I turned instead to getting the bottom finished: [...]
[Keywords: boxes, Making, Truth to Materials, woodwork] [One comment] [Permanent link]
