“You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, Mick, it’s time to get yourself a new spoon. And you do.” – Mick Jagger. Come along and join our experienced carver, Alichia van Rhijn – Hearth Collective, for...
"1868, the United States Patent Office issued Patent Number 76,884 to Wessel Brodhead for an improvement to the field of carpenters’ marking gauges. Brodhead developed a tool that used a simple, elegant method for securing the bar to the head or fence of a marking...
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Check out the work by the talented makers working out of our Handsome & Co workshop. Dan Thomas Douglas Maloney Elliot Gorham - Noddy Boffin Greg Allen - Eco Dad Lana Kagan Josh Carmody ...
From the reassuringly practical to the confusingly obtuse, Fringe Furniture has seen it all. A boundary-pushing showcase of cutting-edge industrial design. This is no Ikea showroom (though you might still find something comfy to sit on). The team at Handsome & Co were very proud to...
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I recently completed the Build Your Own Woodwork Workbench short course and Structured Fine Woodworking at Handsome & Co. I thoroughly enjoyed them both, the workbench course is an intensive 3 days with an amazing end result. The Structured Fine Woodworking is a longer more refined...
The educational taster is upon us again at Handsome & Co. This means an opportunity for students to step outside their comfort zone and try their hand at a new skill they may not necessarily encounter working on their own projects. As usual, term 2 is...
First term of 2017 and the Handsome and Co educational taster was for the students to make a pair of pinch sticks. What are pinch sticks? Well, pinch sticks, also know as pinch rods are a very simple woodworking tool that allows for very accurate measurements...
The legendary tale of Thomas Edison’s arduous route to eventual success has been well told. Ten thousand failed experiments including having his factory burn down and still he didn’t give up, until he figured out how to make a light bulb that worked. If making...
