Wood n Bows:
or how I learned to stop worrying and love my bow.
Adventures in woodworking and music
Habits & Muscle Memory
I’m a full time classical musician with almost 20 years experience teaching and performing. most of what is skill is habit or what many call muscle memory. When you do something over and over, your brain eventually turns off and the habit takes over. Essentially, you get really good at doing whatever you’ve been doing.…
I Stand Collected
In my last post I said that antique left-handed planes don’t exist. I was wrong. While shopping for some other tools from a reputable source who shall remain nameless (*cough* Ed *cough* Lebetkin *cough*), I found a bornified, genuine, southpaw grooving plane. I don’t need another grooving plane. I have 2 I made, and a…
An Odd Duck: The Double Beading Plane
I’m a southpaw. A wise man once told me, “God created everyone left-handed….. and then they sinned.” Before you cry foul, no, I don’t believe right-handed people are destined for eternal damnation and wrong-handed people eternal paradise. But, I still think that joke is hilarious. All joking aside, I can’t stand using planes right-handed. Just…
Exercise: the Best Medicine.
I was in the zone: plowing groves, cutting tenons, marking lines. Then, off to the chop saw to cut the stiles which are also the legs. First cut, the blade sliced through the 12/4 pine like butter. Next one down, then a third. The fourth, another great cut. I then got all the stiles together…
10,000 Hours
Joshua Klein, from Mortise and Tenon Magazine blog post here: “As we strive for agency, we can easily overlook a key element: the sheer quantity of material you have to produce to develop those skills. Remember the rule that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to develop mastery? We need disciplined, regular practice if we’re…
The Chip Carver’s Guide to the Workshop
Author’s note: This farce, forced into the mold of Douglas Adams’ masterpiece, won’t be dining at the restaurant at the end of the universe, but I’m hoping it could at least pass as the ugly stepchild rejected from his epic series. –Jesse Griggs The following guide, having absolutely nothing to do with chip carving, is…
A Happy Space is a Creative Space…..or is it the other way around?
While studying music in college, I visited the Cleveland Institute of Music several times. They had an annual “viola day” that my professor taught at and brought me along. This was special. I got to visit one of the best music schools in the world and have master classes with some great viola professors including…
In Harmony: Stories from Childhood
This Sunday, October 11, at 3pm, I’m performing in a free concert that will be streamed online. For more info visit the Omaha Conservatory of Music’s page here or keep reading. You can watch the video live here. I’m performing on Fluffy the Porcupine and Big Al. IN HARMONY: STORIES FROM CHILDHOOD Sunday, October 11,…
Mr. Metronome: Part 1
Let me introduce you to my little BIG friend! This is Mr. Metronome. His second cousin’s brother’s mother’s friend’s former roommate is Mr. Coffee. I have a love/hate (but mostly hate) relationship with metronomes. Every time I practice with one, I’m convinced the thing is broken. It just can’t hold a steady beat. But then…
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