Ordinary Things …
…overnight development. Coming up with moulds for casting metals in the pre-plastic, pre-3D printer era meant carving and shaping wooden moulds by the dozen, trials of components all the way…
…overnight development. Coming up with moulds for casting metals in the pre-plastic, pre-3D printer era meant carving and shaping wooden moulds by the dozen, trials of components all the way…
…Ward chisel the steel of which is a perfect combination of hardness and strength My question about A2 steel and edge fracture has led me to more questions. As I…
…have used, the engineers Combination Square is the one I find the most practical and reliable. One of the most finely engineered is the Starrett combination square made in the…
…our woodworkingmasterclasses.com and that excites me all the more. In a few days we start making dovetail joints, the through or common dovetail, which is of course another of the…
…the art of actual hand sawing. In my view it is a question of practice through exercise and it is no different than when singers train their voice, or the…
…building the workbench has established the down-to-earth workbench everyone needed to get seriously into hand tools. Seeing pictures coming in of complete and part completed benches is my great reward….
…useful to me. In my searching for a more economic knife to try out for spoon carving I came across this and another knife. This one costs £5 with free…
…lines crossed over the channel of the test, declaring that I indeed had COVID. From this point on everything seemed to worsen. I immediately isolated myself. The cold became a…
…In the USA I did a quick search for the 12″ Crown tenon saw with 13 TPI and Highland Woodworking carries it and so here you have a reliable source…
…wider the tenon the longer the mortise hole. It is common practice to use twin tenons at around 6” in width. So when you approach that width you begin…
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