Why Saw Teeth Profiles Look Mis-sized
…thats’s because the larger toothed saws become unsuited to crosscutting whereas smaller toothed saws will aptly cut with and across the grain because the teeth are more commensurate to the…
…thats’s because the larger toothed saws become unsuited to crosscutting whereas smaller toothed saws will aptly cut with and across the grain because the teeth are more commensurate to the…
…in my hand by the end of the week. For others, retrofitting a the yoke of a #4 plane is just a question of picking up the phone and saying…
Question: Paul, what are the “higher engineering standards” you speak of relative to plane makers or any hand tool makers? Answer: There can be no doubt that Stanley UK planes…
…course, but the comments to my recent blogs surrounding the question of how we perpetuate craft and the art we pursue in the doing of it shows that people outside…
…the vibration you get with frame saws but tensioning is key to tensity in the sense of stretch. The questioner, as with many Brits, assumed that the frames was simply…
…includes everything from new tool reviews to my opinions on sharpness and what sharpness is. Some time back I presented something to my students suggesting the question of why we…
…the last level, which abrasive compound charged to a flat stick. I charge the flat face of the stick of wood with chromium oxide buffing compound. This is not absolutely…
…saws these days. Certainly nothing like the original owners of the company. They are marketing strategists relying as many such companies do on their daddy’s reputation. The old name still…
…forward for me was the questioning. You had so many of them along the way. Unanswered and even unanswerable issues of wonderment, not dissimilar to children asking for answers to…
…feeding the work is a wholly different sphere of working that’s entirely different from hand working. My greatest opposition generally comes from the more technical era advocates who mostly dismiss…
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