Bad Habits
We have been running Bevel Woodworking School for over 4 years now and we have had people from every walk of life and all ages from 14 to 84 years with, all have achieved pretty good results.
It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that the less you have done or know about woodwork the easier it is to progress you through whatever course we are hosting.
Bad habits are hard to change, it is much easier to create a new one.
The reason for this can be because people have started with the tools and used them as best they could without tuning and sharpening them or knowing the correct way to hold or use them.
Our intention is to use this blog space to share what we have learned with our students and to talk about woodworking , tools, timber, techniques and learning.
A woodwork teacher once told me that he never bothered to sharpen the tools in his school as the pupils would only cut themselves. Nothing could be further from the truth, blunt tools are far more dangerous than sharp ones, I will explain why in a later blog.
I am increasingly astonished by what people can achieve given the correct tools in good working condition. I find a lot of people who leave my workshop thinking a particular tool is easy to use, go out and buy one, only to discover that it doesn’t work the same way it did in the woodwork class.
The reason for this is that new tools in general need to be tuned and sharpened. On my next blog I will cover what you need to do with a new plane to get it working properly.
