#Repost @blackdancehistory ・・・ Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates, monoped dancer whose rhythm tap dancing was melodically and rhythmically enhanced by the combination of his deep-toned peg, made of leather and rubber-tipped, and the higher-pitched metallic tap shoe, was born Clayton Bates, the son of Rufus Bates, a laborer, and Emma Steward Bates, a sharecropper and housecleaner. He began dancing when he was five. At twelve, while working in a cotton seed gin mill, he caught and mangled his left leg in a

Peg making bonus! Just for you makers. This essential skill for traditional carpenters I’ve tried to explain here in a little quick tutorial. I had many questions, let me know if it answered yours! The process starts with cleaving. I’m getting rid of any sapwood and juvenile heart wood which don’t contain the extractives- natural chemicals- that the oak tree puts down to give its timber anti- fungal and anti- insect properties. Chen after marking, I cleave the timber, always going from the centr