It’s a bright sunny morning and I am about to start working on the workbench in my back garden (yard US) again now that the Foundational Workshop Part III is done and my students are gone. I will probably post on more of my progress this evening, but mostly I will be planing and gluing…

Working wood has a way of uniting people so uniquely I still find myself bemused by the happenings within woodworking spheres of creativity. I mean, I ask myself why people like myself never give up and other full-time woodworkers can’t wait to give it up and then on the other hand so many people will…

Further chat on chatter and planes before we close. Most of you get the point  but some not. Someone suggested we call scudding chatter as that is what people are used to calling it. I suggest not but I stand to be corrected. Chatter exist and is a phenomenon. I think that we should keep…

Induced plane chatter is a difficult task that even accomplished woodworkers cannot achieve no matter how hard they try yet novice woodworkers seem to somehow do it without even trying. Doesn’t that tell you something about this mysterious myth? If what I say is the case, that even experts have difficulty inducing plane chatter, why…