Questions on diamond sharpening methods, stones and plates
…ago and never switched from what I had. Are cheaper stones any good ? Now as to cheaper stones. I have found that 1) Cheap stones scuff off the diamonds….
…ago and never switched from what I had. Are cheaper stones any good ? Now as to cheaper stones. I have found that 1) Cheap stones scuff off the diamonds….
…more on this in an earlier blogpost and if you are looking to restore one you have or find here is another blog. Cheap square may not be so cheap…
I have written my book on Essential Woodworking Hand Tools and left some tools out because owning every tool in the world is mostly unnecessary and especially is this so…
…too expensive in and off themselves. The average price regardless of grit size is around 30 pence or cents a sheet. That’s the cheapest I could find without buying in…
…grow in different regions around the world, sadly , most consider pines, spruces and firs to be cheap woods; cheap in quality, cheap in a trashy way and of course…
Hello Paul, I wondered why you reference more about buying old planes than new ones. Is it a nostalgic sentiment or is there really some advantage to buying secondhand planes?I…
…good design. This, in my mind at least, shows how lacking we can become in discerning just what a good design is.I might liken IKEA designs to all the nations…
…the same tool I am or you are. There can be no doubt that eBay buying works and works well. It has changed the way we shop for tools and…
…generally the place to go to buy wood, hand tools or a workbench, etc. Especially is this so if you are moving towards making good and fine furniture. The wood…
There was a time when imported tools were both cheap to buy and cheap in quality, which of course isn’t cheap but false economy. In the sixties we in the…