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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Sun, 27 May 2012 06:46:17 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Nick Gibbs's Blog</title><subtitle>Nick Gibbs's Blog</subtitle><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/atom.xml"/><updated>2011-12-07T21:07:38Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Poetry in chairs</title><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/7/poetry-in-chairs.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/7/poetry-in-chairs.html"/><author><name>Nick Gibbs</name></author><published>2011-12-07T20:59:08Z</published><updated>2011-12-07T20:59:08Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[Today I was reminded of an old friend. When I was editing Woodworker in the late 1980s, regular contributor Len Dennis lived just down the M1 at Barnet, and he used to arrive with projects at our Hemel Hempstead offices in his red 2CV. He was a passionate woodworker, and introduced me to many things. He was also one of the first to buy John Brown's book, Welsh Stick Chairs.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Steaming wood</title><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/6/steaming-wood.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/6/steaming-wood.html"/><author><name>Nick Gibbs</name></author><published>2011-12-06T22:28:46Z</published><updated>2011-12-06T22:28:46Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[In introducing steam bending for his September column, John Brown opened with a fantastic quote. 'I once heard of a man,' he wrote, 'who when asked if he could play the piano answered: "I don't know I've never tried." Steaming wood into successful bent shapes is exactly the same.']]></summary></entry><entry><title>The house that Dai built</title><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/5/the-house-that-dai-built.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/5/the-house-that-dai-built.html"/><author><name>Nick Gibbs</name></author><published>2011-12-05T22:50:04Z</published><updated>2011-12-05T22:50:04Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[John Brown's column in August 1994 was one of his most memorable, but perhaps of least interest to chairmakers. He outlined the design and building of his son-in-law Dai and daughter Maria's house in the Preseli Hills, made entirely from wood, much of it recycled.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Down with power routers</title><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/3/down-with-power-routers.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/3/down-with-power-routers.html"/><author><name>Nick Gibbs</name></author><published>2011-12-03T15:42:06Z</published><updated>2011-12-03T15:42:06Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[I missed typing in John Brown's latest column, July 1994, yesterday because I was just too busy. Most of the day was spent judging some BBC magazines in Bristol for their annual awards, and then it was on to Westonbirt Arboretum]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Gripes about readers</title><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/1/gripes-about-readers.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/1/gripes-about-readers.html"/><author><name>Nick Gibbs</name></author><published>2011-12-01T23:11:27Z</published><updated>2011-12-01T23:11:27Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[June 1994 was a historic month, for this was the first of John Brown's columns (which I'm typing in one per day to make into a book) from Good Woodworking magazine to include a gripe about readers, commenting that they worry too much about joints: "I don't think joints are important," he wrote.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Alan Mitchell</title><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/1/alan-mitchell.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/1/alan-mitchell.html"/><author><name>Nick Gibbs</name></author><published>2011-12-01T16:04:09Z</published><updated>2011-12-01T16:04:09Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[Sadly, Alan Mitchell, once editor of Practical Woodworking magazine in the UK, died on Tuesday. Alan was one of the larger-than-life characters in woodworking journalism, working closely with the likes of the late Jack Hill in the 1980s.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Men and women in sheds</title><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/1/men-and-women-in-sheds.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/12/1/men-and-women-in-sheds.html"/><author><name>Nick Gibbs</name></author><published>2011-12-01T15:38:25Z</published><updated>2011-12-01T15:38:25Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[What a pity, this morning, that Lucy Mangan chooses to trivialise the Men in Sheds movement in a Guardian article about gender studies, arguing that women deserves sheds more than women. I'm sure women deserves sheds too, but to mock the funding of projects to help vulnerable groups within society is to miss the point.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>More of John Brown's books</title><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/11/30/more-of-john-browns-books.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/11/30/more-of-john-browns-books.html"/><author><name>Nick Gibbs</name></author><published>2011-11-30T17:03:31Z</published><updated>2011-11-30T17:03:31Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[Given that Chris Schwarz was telling me only yesterday about Jennie Alexander's proposed book, Make a Stool from a Tree, it is ironic that today I've been typing in what John Brown had to say about Make a Chair from a Tree, also written by Jennie, but when she was known as John D. Alexander Jr.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Pole lathers retaliate</title><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/11/29/pole-lathers-retaliate.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/11/29/pole-lathers-retaliate.html"/><author><name>Nick Gibbs</name></author><published>2011-11-29T18:38:37Z</published><updated>2011-11-29T18:38:37Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[I didn't get round to my daily quote of a John Brown column till 5ish, due to events, my boy, events. I can't really remember what I spent doing all morning, except I assume answering countless emails.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Welcome to American woodworkers</title><id>http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/11/29/welcome-to-american-woodworkers.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.britishwoodworking.com/nickgibbsblog/2011/11/29/welcome-to-american-woodworkers.html"/><author><name>Nick Gibbs</name></author><published>2011-11-29T08:30:41Z</published><updated>2011-11-29T08:30:41Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[I've been amazed by the number of woodworkers in the USA who have viewed this blog from Chris Schwarz's Lost Art Press (lostartpress.wordpress.com or lostartpress.com). You are obviously very welcome. To paraphrase W. Churchill, we are peoples separated only by common grinding angles.]]></summary></entry></feed>
