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This review is another in a series on Hand Tools that I am doing with SmartFlix to help them develop a curriculum of instructional DVD’s for hand tool work in the woodshop. Similar to the Charlesworth DVD’s that I reviewed previously, this DVD: Hand Scrapers, Understanding, Preparing and Using the Ultimate Finishing Tool was shot [...]
Blackburn’s third pillar of design which complements both Function and Construction is Proportion. The topic of proportion is something that I have written about here before. So, I won’t repeat too much of that information in this post but rather, I will touch on some additional design paradigms that are useful in developing proportion in [...]
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This post is the first in a series of DVD reviews that I will be doing here at the blog. I am working with SmartFlix to help them develop a curriculum of instructional DVD’s for hand tool work in the woodshop. If you do not know about SmartFlix, take a look at my recent post [...]
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Building on the first post in this series, it’s time to explore Graham Blackburn’s second pillar of design: Construction. When one thinks of construction in woodworking, the first thought is inevitably joinery. While joinery is definitely one element of the construction of a piece of furniture, as you might expect, there’s more to the equation. [...]
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