Craft Films

I've been getting ready for the wheelbarrow class in a couple weeks, including building some test wheels. Here's a finished wheel: Oops! Wrong photo!  Here's a finished wheel: Well, at least the wooden parts are done - now it's off to Peter Ross's to shrink the...

One of my readers sent me this video.  It's from 1964 Sweden, of an old fellow making a spinning wheel.  The film is beautifully shot and silent, so you can can choose your own soundtrack.  There's a lot of great parts, but my favorite is the boring and...

Morgan and I got back from a west-coast vacation a couple weeks ago and I've been carving seats and gluing up chairs ever since.   I've got 18 undercarriages together and 22 to go.  I might switch to putting backs on for variety.  I've never had a...

Here's a few more shorts from the British Pathe: Bentwood trug baskets being made in 1929. They have some sort of a square steam box. What was this made out of? I assume there was no CDX plywood at this time, and my experience with solid wood steam boxes is that they...

For being in the middle of a pandemic, my life is pretty full.  Tools and chairs have been selling better than ever in my career. I have made over 200 reamers in the last 12 months and am about to run out again - whew!  The online classes are doing well and...

I have a ball last weekend carving spoons with Peter Follanbee and am looking forward to this weekend's class. Peter has everything - the deep voice, the big personality, mad skills and a flowing beard. What more could you want?  went back and watched a couple of...