The Joy of Wood: August 2019

Thursday, August 22, 2019

The Joy of Wood turns 10 years old - and finally grows up!

Gidday! This year, 2019, marks ten years since the Joy of Wood began. It is 10 years since I started running hand tool woodworking workshops on the side while running my own business as a Cabinetmaker / Joiner. Over the years, the teaching side enlarted to the point that I no longer make custom furniture and joinery for customers. I just love to teach people of all ages and from all walks of life through The Joy of Wood and particularly through our Heritage Woodcraft Centre. Thankyou for your support and interest!

The blog posts here on this site have been few and far between since I started using Instagram and our Facebook Page. There is only so much time in the day away from the bench!

Meanwhile, it has been a long time coming, but we have finally got a proper web page up. Hooray! This includes both a Shop and a new Blog address : https://www.thejoyofwood.com.au

So all new posts will be done on the new blog address. The old posts on this Blogspot address (where you are now) will be kept here, as they provide a great resource of information and inspiration to many people around the Planet. They will just not be added to. All new blog poasts will be on the new Blog address, linked to our web page.

Just a few of the old posts have been copied over from Blogspot to the new Blog site : https://www.thejoyofwood.com.au/blog/

While you are there, please look around at the info on our web page to see what we are doing at our Heritage Woodcraft Centre. We are the only place in Perth, Western Australia (and we believe the whole of Western Australia) which specialises solely in teaching traditional woodworking hand skills and techniques - including the pre-industrial Green Woodworking skills. Our Heritage Woodcraft Centre in home to The Joy of Wood.

Plans for Sale.
We have sold a lot of plans to people from all over the world over the last couple of years, and this range will be increasing:

MkIII Combination Shaving Horse & Bowl Carving Bench. Purchasing these plans has got a whole lot easier now, as you can purchase the digital download of the plans directly from our Shop.
A Shaving Horse for Kids! The Adjustable and Portable Shaving Horse for Kids is a new plan in our stable, for a new Shaving Horse we have recently developed. It is not up on our web page shop yet, but meanwhile it is available on our ETSY store.

The Saw Horse on Steroids / Saw Stool on Steriods Plans are now available for purchase! It has only taken 10 years! The name confusion comes from differences in common use language between different countries. These great plans for this fantastic device are available from our ETSY store.

Plans coming up: