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This list is wood-centric, and oriented to members of the woodworking listserver. The Windsor Institute Mike Dunbar's chairmaking school and my chairmaking alma mater. If you want to make your own, or just learn to use a drawknife and spokeshave, this is the place. And you get to take home a really nice souvenir for those "what I did on my summer vacation" essays. OldTools Mailing List Control Panel The central source for the oldtools mailing list FAQ, archives, and managing your list subscription if you are subscribed. Bob Keyes' good fast cheap bench If you are going to do any woodworking you need a solid bench. Here is a well proven design. A Woodwork Notebook - Jeff Gorman Jeff (you Jeff) is a fount of wisdom from Great Britian who keeps the 'Murricans( us Paddy) honest when they start waving around too many acronyms, and who has a lovely website with basic how-to's with pictures for those of us who don't have a real breathing person we can visit and ask when we can't figure out something. Galoot's Progress Tom Price was bored one day when the list was hiccupping so he built a website. Since he is one of the better writers on the list he had an ample collection of material already. He also has a metalist of useful links. This is where to go to find out what you are getting into if you join our happy band. Bugbear's Site Paul has a major compendium of workbench links, sorted by species, as well as a list of galoot homepages, a treatise on how to find things on the web, and various other useful tidbit.s. But he is best known for the internationally famous "bugbear's bowsaw" reverse engineered from an old one he found. Atlantia A&S link list Woodworkers tend to have far-ranging lists of other interests. The best link collection for how to make/do almost anything "traditionally" is the SCA Kingdom of Atlantia link collection.You won't believe the range, from making your own parchment. ink, and paints for calligraphy to working nearly every reasonable traditional raw material, with some forays into stuff like plastic pretending to be ivory. Definite time-killer to surf. The Society for Creative Anachronism The SCA recreates the fun parts of the medieval and Renaissance time period. The scope is ~600-1600 western Europe and contact cultures. The Barony of Thescorre My local SCA chapter, in the sylvan Kingdom of AEthelmearc. The Pennsic War One of those things you can't really comprehend if you haven't seen, and may not believe at first if you have. Every year in August ~12-13,000 (yes thousand, not a typo) medieval recreationists descend on a campground in western Pennsylvania for up to 2 weeks of tent camping, about 1000 classes in nearly anything you can think about connected to the middle ages and renaissance, shopping, and fighting (real armour, fake swords and safety rules). Even aerial photographs don't get the entire site in one picture with objects big enough to recognise. Oh yes, everyone on site is wearing garb (clothes from the era). A search on the name will yield lots of pictures and commentary

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