I’ve watched these videos of people chiseling away at wood and the wood seems to melt like butter off of their chisels. Well, even when I sharpened all of my chisels, it was still tricky and difficult working with the wood. I wouldn’t say I enjoyed it. It was interesting (in a good way) working […]
Archive for January, 2006
About a month ago, I sent in an article to the CBA (California Bluegrass Assosiation) Bluegrass Breakdown newspaper (as I do every month). I wasn’t too sure if they’d put it in ’cause it kinda strayed a bit from Bluegrass. It had to do with bringing food to a Bluegrass festival (which you can read […]
Finally! After . . . quite a while, I finished the gi! I first made the gi top which came out very good. I would even say, “pretty proffesional.” There was a little hole under “the pits” but we managed to put a little canvas under that. Throughout the whole construction, I never had to […]
We went to this mom & pop (even though the whole family is involved) video rental store to get The Office: British Edition. We watch the NBC’s Steve Carrell Office but we heard that the british one was really good so we had to see that. They had this 5 for the price of 2 […]
I finally got in touch with my friend who’s a cabinet maker. I asked for some scrap maple wood to practice on. This morning, he gave it to my sword teacher (they know each other) which he was gonna take to the class. I went down to class to pick it up. After waiting a […]