Journeyman's Workshop - home workshop and model engineering
Description: home workshop engineering, model engineering, model boats, wood turning, machine reviews and upgrades, simple projects and plans, metalworking techniques and tips - Journeyman's Workshop -
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You may well be asking, "What is a journeyman?" Well it′s origins go back a long way, think medieval trade guilds like the wheelwrights, blacksmiths, armourers or masons. To start off in one of those trades you did a seven year apprenticeship. On completion you could then go off on your own to seek employment and improve your skills, this was the "journeyman". Many journeymen would stay as employees but a few, if accepted as a master craftsman by their guild, would set up in business and take on their own a
Well I am not quite medieval but I did my apprenticeship in marine engineering a long time ago. Firmly stuck at the journeyman stage but mostly travelling by the internet these days. It is a good job that there are plenty of master craftsmen out there with web-sites for me to learn from. That′s me in the photo, John Waterhouse, would be model engineer and home workshop user. I live in Buckinghamshire in the UK. I have had an interest in things mechanical for as long as I can remember and have been on-line s
My particular interests are stationary steam engines and model boats, havn′t built many of either but keep trying. Stirling and vacuum engines I find fascinating and I have managed to get a few running although they always refuse to work if I want to make a video! Workshop "improvements" are a necessity and you will find a few of my projects in the menu or from the site map . Having enjoyed visiting other engineers on-line workshops I thought it only right to invite you to visit my own workshop. So being in
Journeyman's Workshop - home workshop and model engineering