Aldi Sharpening Block
…grits of 200, 300, 400 and 600 the chisel was acceptably flat, and restoring the bevel to the same level gave me a cutting edge. After stropping to 15,000 and…
…grits of 200, 300, 400 and 600 the chisel was acceptably flat, and restoring the bevel to the same level gave me a cutting edge. After stropping to 15,000 and…
I measure the pressure and press more to revive the old work of another man, a working man, and gold ripples of texture speak to me of where he levelled…
…300 years. The old tools keep recycling through as people like myself pass on and the next generation became computer literates and, as some say, saw sense in showering to…
…figure at all into my education and imperial seemed simple and straight forward. At work I worked to 1/64”, which was tight tolerance enough for all initial joinery and comes…
Happy 65th birthday to Paul! Paul is 65 today. I would like to welcome you all to wish him a happy birthday in the comments. Last year I did a…
…cleanness of honest work in an honest atmosphere of minimised pollution beyond commercialism and mass manufacturing. It’s a personal sphere of unindustrialised space were we close the doors to commercialism…
…more common than you might think. There are many plane types used throughout woodworking, mostly they are separated by their type in that they plough or rebate, smooth and so…
…There has evolved an obsessive compulsion for flatness when it comes to plane soles and irons, mostly it’s been manufacturers doing a bit of willy waving. Whereas a few people…
…and I can scarcely think of many components being more than the lengths give but with 98% of component pieces being somewhere below 48″ (1.22m). Even then that is more…
…myself, but most of the guys who fawn over hand woodworking have never even finished a complete piece, where I finish many in a single week.” I receive such comments…
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