With the main body of the clock completed, and if you want to add the undercarriage, we can now focus on forming the built up area beneath the bottom piece. This section adds greater depth and grace to the overall appearance of the clock and is purely decorative. I used a # 5 sweep gouge…
If you want to know how to make a bookshelf or the back of a kitchen drawer, it’s best to start with a project like this. https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/ I have made these for my children and for people needing to store kindling for starting their cosy cottage fires. Resi Tomat, head of education at the National…
On tour with The Woodworking Shows In the next few days my time here in the UK comes to a swift winter close and I return to the US where I begin the new year with a new winter beginning by touring with The Woodworking Shows. I first started demoing with them back in 1995…
With the panel completed and in situ, I mark the centre of the hole. I take care to mark the hole at the top and not the bottom of the panel and this is important if you have selected grain for a particular aspect presentation. Establishing the distance between the two sides, I split the…
With the main body of the clock superstructure completed we can now form the raised panel and fit it to the grooves. This was once performed traditionally using a special plane called a panel-raising plane. Traditional Panel Raising Plane View 1 – Showing perspective sketch of plane View 2 – Showing underside and skewed cutting…
Had a blast working wood with my friends again to day and, also, I had to prepare for the filming we are working on for the upcoming training phases we have planned. I hope that you members of woodworking masterclasses enjoyed the videos we broadcast over the past two months. This has become the most…
Q: Hi Paul, Just discovered your site last week and I am really enjoying it. I do have a question about bench planes that you use. Do you ever use a No. 6, 7, or 8. to do any fore planing or jointing? I notice that you use the No. 4 1/2 quite a bit,…
A mixed gaggle of geese and boxes in oak and pine and mahogany enrich my life. Here are some of the projects soon to follow. I have made some of these for years and soon you will be making them too. In the last project online (below right) we made the Wall Clock from pine….
Well, with so many requests from you for a video on making a poor man’s router we had to do it and here it is. I think my naming it a poor man’s tool you may think it a poor tool, but that’s not the case. As with all hand routers, the important thing is…
Thanks to my wife, Joseph, Abraham, Katrina and my friends beyond my family who work wood, support my work and bless me with friendship and care, this is the closing day of my year’s classes. The year has been full of challenges because our goals have seemed impossible, but it was only because things were…
