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Much music learning is strict dogma as well. Not always easy but pays off in the end. Your forced to do quite unnatural things that need...

I thought that too. Music/woodwork you have to be able to make/play simple things well before you try more difficult things. If you push...

There is much absolute and dangerous rubbish on UToob, but two very good, top drawer exponents are the late David Charlesworth and the...

having a music education helped me a lot with woodworking, they are fairly similar actually, master the basics first, including theory...

I shall follow your suggestion and have such a session, I like it. As for free climbing, not for me ever! Happy to rappel but no rope -...

Jacob I particularly agree re the lifelong skills learning, and it is evident to me that some things I struggled with just 6 months ago...

Bench joinery and box making are very different one isn't necessarily more difficult than the other. It's just that your literally up...

Hmm that's a very detailed spec. Can't help thinking of music education - you probably can't start grade 8 Trombone etc unless you are...

Thanks Sam, appreciated. I attended an evening course at a local college last year, c20 weeks. Whilst I made progress, I was...

The best advice I can give you is to book a few days with different people take some courses if you wish. But most importantly...

I had a mature chap in my workshop last year, on this very basis, came to me with self confidence that he was more than capable in basic...

Sounds dangerous. Losing fingers aren’t the type of mistakes I’m referring to 😬 Not everyone is cut out for it that’s very true.

Some years back I offered woodturning guidance , Had 2 people ask to come along , I said yes , This was at my home workshop , The visits...

That is terrible, I would have hunted him down and made him pay. People never cease to amaze me - bad and good.

When I see posts like this I always consider how work of such truly amazing quality was achieved using simple tools. It's training by...