Close Grain

I'm now offering virtual private lessons online, subject to schedule availability. I had done some experimentation with lessons over Sky...

I'm happy to announce that I'll be resuming private lessons for hand tool woodworking this summer in my basement workshop in Ayer, ...

Quintessential Phil: a welcoming smile and the ever-present pencil tucked behind his ear at the December, 2011 Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event a...

52 Boxes In 52 Weeks, The Taunton Press, $24.95, 224pp, May, 2018 Full disclosure: I was given a copy of this book by the publisher for r...

Woodworking With Hand Tools: Tools, Techniques and Projects, The Taunton Press, $24.95, 240pp, April, 2018 Full disclosure: I was given a...