Today went too quickly
Some pine chests at a car-boot sale… …some people cheated even back then – nails in each tail.. … or no tails at all here. …
Some pine chests at a car-boot sale… …some people cheated even back then – nails in each tail.. … or no tails at all here. …
Myth busting #1 Forget micro bevels and guides and get on to real woodworking. Guides can be good as training wheels but I believe you should get on with the…
It wasn’t work all day today, but I did look at the work of others, starting with the unfathomable richness of nature and moving through the work of people now long…
A visit to Cardiff Castle Penrhyn Castle has much in common with Cardiff castle in one thing alone. The manorial house aspects of what was built was built on the…
…to the owner identified to a wrist movement or twist of the arm or fingertip. I also find something evident but often unrecognised. It’s a quality of completion I call…
…is another we did. I took a lot of stick about recommending this plane type over its modern-day counterpart heavyweight as a Bed rock but when people come to my…
…place for surface planing intersecting points which is common with framed doors where stile and rail come together. You can either hold the door stile or rail or indeed clamp…
…pros/cons. The literature (Veritas/Lie-Neilsen) say the bevel ups are good for new woodworkers, i.e., that is to say lighter weight and less complicated. Why? Do you agree? There must be…
…patch on. Now driving on the wrong side of the road sitting in the wrong side of the car adds some additional complications, but pressing on and pressing in is…
…my compass in. The radius for the cutting edge is therefor 70mm. As a scribe point, I used a common woodscrew in the compass to describe the arc across the…
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