Murray Taylor passed away in 2020. His gentle voice and clear instrucions live on in his videos (available at artisanmasterclass.co.uk). This is one of the last stories he wrote.
While visiting a festival of wood recently I was drawn to a couple of second-hand tool stands. As a self-confessed tool collector – or an ‘addict’ according to my wife – I did buy an old gouge that I obviously ‘could not live without’. Looking around at a plethora of old tools, some of quality, some not, I got into conversation with a novice carver who had selected a handful of old chisels and gouges. ‘Have you got a big project in mind?’’ I asked. ‘No,’ he replied, ‘but they probably
