One the past year, I’ve been making some pretty significant changes to the basic way Daed Toolworks operates – everything from the range of things it makes to the way it sells them. Some of these changes are obvious – like adding a limited range of small-run production tools, beginning with dividers and a couple […]
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Sometimes love just aint enough.
Today at 5 PM, I’m going to start up something I’ve never had before. Im adding a simple shopping cart system to my website. And while it wasn’t planned this way, there is a sort of symmetry (or its it irony?) embodied up in the first batch of tools offered for sale through the site […]
The Drama You Crave: Crucible Tool
Over at Lost Art Press, Chris Schwarz has posted several blog entries in the past week about
One line blog post no. 1: Cap irons, tight mouths, or high pitches?
Yes. (but it turns out all work better with a plane in your hand than a keyboard or tablet)
Hammering so Hard
Last year at Handworks, I bought a spoon from Jarrod Stone Dahl, a craftsman whose work I admire immensely. I’d watched his work and read his great blog for a few years, had never met him. He had one spoon left, and I asked him if he’d be willing to add a small design of […]
Some comments on The Anarchist’s Design Book
I rarely review or comment here on work by my woodworking friends. I worked for many years as a PR monkey, so I’m very attuned to problems of bias. Occasionally, though, I make an exception. This is one of them times. So here’s the full disclosure and disclaimer – and it’s important: there is no […]
Epic Problem
For at least 5 or 6 years in the ’00s, my new year’s resolution was short, simple, and elusive: Get the %@&* off the internet. I don’t mean wikipedia, the US patent office archives or the Bernard Cumberbatch name generator – those things are cool. I mean (I cringe just thinking of saying it) … […]
The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill: Daedlab Commandment 3
You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste the afterlife? – IB/MM Daedlab Commandment #3: Don’t be a jackass. Make the slaves do it for you. Just make sure you and they both remember who number two works for. If you can already do it, don’t especially love to do it, and need to do a […]