Adhesives are critical to both woodworking and carpentry. While there are other means of fastening wood together and wood to a variety of other materials, adhesives are the “go to” in countless cases, even when used in conjunction with other forms of joining materials together, such as using fasteners. An understanding of the different types … Read more
Using wood in cooking is nothing new. We use wood to provide heat for cooking, as well as using wood inside the oven or over the fire at times. Wood skewers and their shorter cousin, the toothpick have long been used to hold food together; not just for horderves, but also in the oven and … Read more
The mortar and pestle has been around since somewhere around 35,000 BC. They have been used to crush grains and other food products, both wet and dry. While they have been largely replaced by other, more modern methods in recent times, there are still cooks today who find a mortar and pestle extremely useful, especially … Read more
It can be said that we live in a plastic world. Ever since plastic was first invented, in 1907, it has taken over more and more applications from metal, wood, glass and other more natural materials. Many products or parts of a product that were once made of wood or metal can no longer be … Read more
Sometimes, the terminology that we use to describe the products we work with can be quite confusing. The same item or group of items can be called by a variety of different names. At the same time, the same name can refer to different items. These problems are made all that much worse when we … Read more