Monday, September 14, 2026

Are we all like?

I just finished a 4 day class with adults, making inlaid boxes. It should be noted that teaching adults and children is essentially the same thing, particularly if the children have an interest in learning, as do most adults who have joined me in the wood shop.

It is all a matter of play. We experimented. We asked questions of ourselves and others. We watched for the safe operation of tools. And we made inlaid boxes. 

We maintained an atmosphere where mistakes we OK.

Adults or children, we start with our interest, as that is what we build upon. We proceed from what we know, toward what we want to find out. We move from the easy to the more difficult. We go from the simple to the complex and always from the concrete to the abstract, and back to simplify and make real.


Make, fix and create.



Monday, September 07, 2026

Creativity. Where does in come from?


https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/creativity

Where does it come from"

Where's it going next?

Friday, September 04, 2026

Wednesday, September 02, 2026

All hands in

This from an Op-ed I wrote for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in October 2022.

https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/all-hands-in


Monday, August 31, 2026


Gliedganzes.substack.com Make things harder for ourselves, please.

Two great classes.


These are photos from my last two classes at the Eureka Springs School of the Arts. 

The first is beginning box making in which each student made 3 boxes in 3 days, each of a different type, and involving their own creative ideas.

The second is my pop-up cane making class based on an article I wrote for Woodwork Magazine, and using the Veritas round tenoner and walnut. The pop-up class was offered due to a large demand for the first class held earlier in the year.

Make, fix and create as though your life depends upon it. It does.

Check out my substack, gliedganzes.substack.com

Monday, August 24, 2026

Left making things of useful beauty

You may have been following the anthropic class action lawsuit in which the company has agreed to pay each publisher and author of certain pirated books, an amount split between them. I should receive a small check, though not enough to justify continuously feeding into the theft of intellectual properties that appears ongoing. The judge's ruling is such that AI will continue mining us for salable content. It happens with everything we place online, in whatever form. Are you on facebook? You've agreed to have your content stolen from you and it will be.

In contrast, we can continue to make beautiful, useful and real things. I've placed business card holders on my made in eureka springs site: https://madeineurekasprings.com/products/linden-business-card-holder

We'll truly worry about AI when it steals our jobs and we are left making things for ourselves and being enriched in many ways by the process.

Friday, August 07, 2026

Books in Bloom

Books in Bloom was a literary festival here in Eureka Springs and here was my author talk from 2007. Although I've aged, think you'll find it consistent with my message of today. https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/from-books-in-bloom

Monday, July 27, 2026

Part Two and three, Jean's craftsman style bookcase

 https://open.substack.com/pub/gliedganzes/p/part-two-jeans-craftsman-style-bookcase.

https://open.substack.com/pub/gliedganzes/p/part-three-jeans-craftsman-style


Saturday, July 25, 2026

Brookfield Craft Center..

David Heim sent photos from the Brookfield Craft Center where he's starting a Wisdom of the Hands program for local kids. He hopes next to start Wisdom of the Hands style programming in their local school. A hardwood dealer donated the Birch plywood for their benches and the tools supplied at a discount price by Woodcraft Supply.



Thursday, July 23, 2026

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Gliedganzes.substack.com Continuing work on essays from this blog.

Monday, July 20, 2026


 I will be at Rockspire for a discussion of the Wisdom of Our Hands: Crafting a Life. We will talk about how the hands have the capacity to transform all that surrounds us. 

All are welcome to attend.



Friday, July 10, 2026

Making a "tribal" coffee table

As first appeared in Woodcraft magazine in 2004. Parts one and two.

https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/part-one-making-a-tribal-coffee-table

https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/part-two-making-a-tribal-coffeetable


Gradually sharing some of my earlier articles. 


Monday, June 29, 2026

I am beginning to upload some previously unpublished how-to articles to gliedgaanzes.substack.com

Make, fix and create...

Sunday, June 28, 2026

gliedganzes.substack.com I am placing a series of essays online. Pay only if you choose.

Friday, June 26, 2026

Continuing to install locks sets

 The next steps installing lock sets is to rout the recess for the upper edge to be flush as shown. The the hole for the key is carefully marked for drilling. The locks will be screwed in place before the box is assembled due to the small size. 


Wednesday, June 24, 2026


This shows the set up for installing lock sets in small boxes. It must be done before assembly, and requires a 1/8 in. router bit and moving between stops.

Make, fix and create...

The wisdom of the hands

Today I added a simple remembrance to my gliedganzes.substack.com site. It may be helpful to those hoping to start woodworking in the own school.

Make, fix and create.

Monday, June 22, 2026

Scholars

 

An essay on gliedganzes.substack.com Please enjoy and share.


Thursday, June 18, 2026

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

3-D Printing Lego like blocks

My article on printing your own Lego blocks and learning the Sketchup 3D modeling program is featured on Makezine.com

https://makezine.com/projects/learn-sketchup-by-modeling-diy-lego-bricks/ Every one loves Legos.

We are ready for Day 9 of a two week residency program in the woodshop at ESSA. The place is an explosion of creative work.

Sunday, June 14, 2026

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Slow making.

Gliedganzes.substack.com 
Gathering writing in one place for your convenience. You may become a free or  paid subscriber.

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

I continue to load essays to gliedganzes.substack.com where they can be enjoyed.
 

I'm continuing to share some of my published essays about education at gliedganzes.substack.com

Building a society of mutual respect

 

Gliedganzes.substack.com I continue to load the substack site and welcome you to join as either a free or paid subscriber and to share with those who seek a renewal of American culture.

Saturday, June 06, 2026

More on the knife

More on the use of the knife at the Clear Spring School. gliedganzes.substack.com
 

The use of the sloyd knife in education

gliedganzes.substack.com This is from an article I wrote for Woodwork Magazine in 2005. My plan is to gradually place some of my written materials to be available on the substack platform.