Things categorized as 'Skills'
Hombres y sus sombras
What is it between men and bulls? The horned creatures, the men with black hats. Here in the far past people have hunted these great beasts and later farmed them. Men and bulls dance ...
Cam clamps (you can never have enough…)
In my adventures in crafts, some might say my amateur adventures in craft, I am always attracted to the making of tools and jigs ( in which I am admittedly wearing the ...
Post and rail
My friend James, whose a second generation ( or more ) forester and wood cutter in Sussex supplied me with the rails and posts of chestnut and oak for a fence as ...
First Flamenca Blanca finished
It is a rainy day. Anyway it is already dark and I really want these photos in the post so I went ahead and uploaded them. My first guitar, a Flamenca Blanca. It is ...
the fast track
Once the bulk of the work is done every step is a giant step. I felt that this project is coming to an end rapidly. It was out of my hands; is ...
Once I was lost in the woods
I find it hard to trace back. I am sure that I will be clearer one day and remember. Many memories do come to me these days but they are all from ...
Knapping Vocabulary
After a couple of hours knapping in the weekend I took a break with the kids and went to an end-of-year school barn dance in a farm the other side of the ...
Knapping Saturday
In the short break that the rain had on Saturday, some fine June sunshine baked us - a group of nine would be flintknappers in a farm near Buxted, East Sussex. The ...
Non Woven
For the most part (funny in English it is ' for the better part ) of human existence we did not weave. Skins of animals cured and smoked and later felted wool ...