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Sunday, February 7, 2016
Joy of Sectors II: Revisiting "The Arte & Misterie of Coopering"
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You may remember this picture of a persnickety Perkins working the angles on a coopering demonstration. With a bit of math and the ...
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Saturday, February 6, 2016
Thoughts from the peeler: The artisan obsession and where does it end?
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There is in just about every artisan, a touch of obsessive compulsion. Whether or not it's a disorder depends on how you feel about bein...
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Breaking the shackles of time: Books, Writing, and Practical Paleography
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" What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are printed lots of funny ...
Monday, January 11, 2016
The Joy of Sectors: Getting our Galileo on...
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"For the eye is always in search of beauty, and if we do not gratify its desire for pleasure by a proportionate enlargement in these m...
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Sewing leather revisited - Making a sheath for my Frost Mora carving knife
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Historical Note: I'm not sure who made the knife sheathes. There's no 'Scabbard Company' on the livery rolls in the 16th ce...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Drafting patterns for leatherworking
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Note: This post isn't really about 16th century methodologies. I've shared a few of my favorite "hacks" (as the kids say...
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