The cold snap yesterday came suddenly and leaves fell on the pond outside the school, creating a kaleidoscope of Autumn (fall) colour I just loved. Today was a perfect close to the New Legacy New York year and I must now focus on the UK classes to do the same. This year has been a…
Hello Paul My name is Satjapon, I live in Thailand. I begin to do woodcraft for 3 years. I need your comment about planes. I am looking for premium plane and I have seen your review about JUUMA planes. What do you recommend between buy Lie-Nielsen (more expensive) or buy JUUMA as I am a…
Remember when I first set up my workspace tattle New Legacy New York school and I had cupboards more centralised to the shop. Well, for me, as a blogger and photographer, it was hard to get the light I needed without resorting tas situated lighting or flash. These create artificial images and this that I…
The day started cold as the temperature dropped dramatically last night. I had planned on breakfast at Eli’s but it was already packed at 8.10am. As I drove to the shop I was amazed by the wonderful reds and golds and ambers of the autumn season and could see…
Question: Hi Paul, You mentioned corrugated soles in your recent blog. What’s wrong with corrugated soles? Dan Answer: I am asked about these planes from time to time. Several makers have tried to alleviate the burden on we woodworkers who use planes beyond the workbenches of woodworking shows. I use a plane everyday and have…
We seem almost besotted with giant tape measures in our western world of woodworking, but of course in construction they are now essential. How we managed before they were developed to what have today I don’t know. I grew up with a three-foot four-fold Rabone rule made from boxwood and I still use it at…
American Woodworker magazine article out soon This week, subscribers to American Woodworker will receive their copies of the magazine and John Kelsey has written a four-page article about our New Legacy School of Woodworking and its relationship to the woodworking world as a whole. John and I talked about the perspectives people hold about woodworking…
Hand routers = controlled power I often explain that tool reviews are seldom based on viable tests through longevity of use but at the time the tool arrives and then through one time usage by the author of the report. I may do something similar from time to time, but always with the caveat that…
Traveling masterclasses Monday this week was my day off, so what did I do? I worked on milling wood and finished off another of my tool boxes. This was once the most traditional of Traveling Joiner’s Tool Boxes in England, Scotland and Wales and where I am from I never saw a joiner without one….
Another tool chest of a different kind I designed this joiner’s tool chest many years ago and though it follows something of a traditional pattern, I improved the design and designed it as more a training project because I wanted to include other important features people might want to learn from as they make it….