The American Peasant Substack
Earlywood: My Willow Phase
The unpleasant funny about visiting your family during the holidays is encountering your former woodworking self. (Editor's note: I am delighted to now have this footstool in my study. I love it.)
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The Dancing Monkey Sauce
After about five years of working at this craft every day, I learned two things.
1. Woodworking is the only thing I want to do for a living.
2. I will never achieve the level of technical mastery that I long for.
How do I reconcile those two notions?
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The Anarchist's Apprentice Substack
Living Day to Day
At the end of the day last Thursday, while finishing prep for this week's chair class, Chris sat a chair kit on my bench. By a stroke of luck, the wood he had chosen for the class had very few defects, which granted a more-than-usual amount of useable wood.
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Never Sponsored Substack
The Near-perfect Clone Asks: 'So Now What?'
For the last week I've been using a No. 4 from Taylor Toolworks under the Taytools line. It is a Bedrock format plane, with a ductile iron body (making it almost unbreakable), comfortable sapele handles and a premium chipbreaker, like what you find on a Lie-Nielsen, Veritas or infill handplane.
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