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EAIA Annual Meeting once over and more 20 May 2013 | 07:15 pm
Yeah and verily I have returned from the EAIA Annual Meeting in Hyannis, MA. Miles Standish made an appearance at the Sat nite banquet to regail us with tales of his escapades as well as some of the t...
Temple Thorold On Wood Turning: Free PDF Download 10 May 2013 | 06:21 pm
My favorite author, Mr. Temple Thorold, wrote not only his famous book, Our Workshop, he also wrote two serialized articles for Routledge's Boy's Annual which was the yearly compilation of Routledge's...
On Sale: A Manual Of Wood Carving by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1891 9 May 2013 | 12:49 am
Yes, you heard it here first. Charles Godfrey Leland, that odd fellow from the 19th century has done it again. He's gone and reprinted his famous book on wood carving, titled, strangely enough: A Manu...
Lastly, the cover of A Manual Of Wood Carving 7 May 2013 | 02:46 am
And that's about it. The cover and the content are uploaded. The proof is ordered. The fingers are crossed. It's time for some GF mac & cheese and the next episode of River Monsters. Till next, Gary
Draft Introduction to Leland: A Manual Of Wood Carving 7 May 2013 | 12:56 am
Just in case you didn't know, Charles Godfrey Leland was not your average Joe. Not by a long shot. This is a very heavily edited version of his life. The long version is a book unto itself... Introduc...
The Lesser Known Moxon: Mechanick Dyalling 6 May 2013 | 03:32 pm
For reasons wholely unkown to yours truly, few people speak, or write, of the Mechanick Dyalling chapter of The Doctrine Of Handy-Works. If you put your mind to it, Joseph Moxon was known for his skil...
Gary Goes Hollywood 1 May 2013 | 08:48 pm
Yes, I went and had a face lift. A partial face lift. One little part of one eyelift lift. No, not really a Hollywood eye-lift lift, more a medical necessity type of lift lift. Thanks to numerous othe...
How large or small should students hands be for carving? 29 Apr 2013 | 04:51 pm
Mr. Leland addresses this question in his treatise on Wood Carving and rightly so. It's one of those questions that has clearly perplexed teachers, sensei and masters of crafts for centuries: "It is a...
It's Spring and it's time to diet 27 Apr 2013 | 10:25 pm
Time to shed those winter excess pounds, kilos or what have you's. In my case, it's the excess clutter of this blog. A wee bit has also been shed over at the website too. It's one of those things that...
It's not Leland 1909, it's Leland 1891 26 Apr 2013 | 09:55 pm
As a former librarian, I must insist on accuracy in nomenclature, cataloging (which classes I really didn't get along with in grad school if I must be truthfull) and all that other library stuff. The ...
