Authentic Nautical Accessories, and Custom Furnishings
I don't shill for companies. Especially if my retirement portfolio does not contain their stock, and I don't get a boost from AmaZoo when you buy a product I've listed in the blog. And a look at a relatively recent view of my shop would make a tool manufacturer shudder - no endorsement offers for …
I've been working on a composite sign project: a carved and engraved banner on a wooden oval surmounted by a carving of a schooner. I was using a new rotary device from Dremel to get some paint off a sail. The paint must have been from an old tube and just looked irregular. The little …
Bloganuary writing promptIf you could un-invent something, what would it be? View all responses We all have peeves, things we despair of or are just plain inured with. Ask someone to name something they'd love to see un-invented and watch them vent. The steam will curl out of the ears, the invective will roll, and …
Bloganuary writing promptWhere can you reduce clutter in your life?View all responses I am among those who believe that there is a circle in hell for neat freaks. It's true. Some people enter my carving shop and envy the variety of carving tools racked before them. But It would be the height of mendacity to …
Daily writing promptWhat would you do if you lost all your possessions?View all responses Possessions? Well, clothes don't make the man. And everything that I wear can easily be replaced. Those old suits in the back of the closet? Refuse from my days working for the Gov; very forgettable. Books? Well, OK. Now, we get …
Craftspeople accumulate tools and supplies, and some of us could use the help of the tool police to keep us in line with purchases of new bits and pieces.
Many trades and crafts have techniques rooted in centuries of precedence. For example, I've known boatbuilders who, while depending upon computer systems to draw and print out plans, still like the feel and physicality of an old-fashioned half-hull model in their hands.Â
Old toothbrushes don't get trashed; they get second lives in the workshop.
Before starting full-time studies at Boston University, I worked various jobs to pay my part-time tuition at Metropolitan College. Some of that work was as a personal attendant for older people. There was the doctor who thought he was still in practice in Dorchester and the former wool shipping magnate who dragged me to all the finest private clubs in the Boston area, and at last, there was the ship carpenter.
Little problems are sometimes big problems in carving.
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