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…with a penchant for mastering hand skills with hand planes. He went on, “It’s important to remember that planes come from a slower age when the progression towards competency was…
…with a penchant for mastering hand skills with hand planes. He went on, “It’s important to remember that planes come from a slower age when the progression towards competency was…
…looks like a complicated inlay. For the aprons I veneered these after I had completed the joinery to maintain the uniform thickness I wanted for the joinery layout and cutting….
…be shorter. The longer the workpiece the greater the compression and the more evident the difference in length will be. Wood also compresses beneath the plane and springs back into…
…others and some not. Why? Well, when things become common they often end up just being taken for granted as entitlement and are treated commonly. In my artwork I have…
…like what’s coming from the chisel edge and the saw teeth. It feels good. Angled hanging pegs, clean lines ti the shoulder lines and repeat sliding dovetails makes it great…
…a hundred times what was planted. Today, we are reaching and teaching hundreds of thousands of woodworkers every week. There is a lot of competition out there but the competition…
…Paul Sellers blog outreach, Woodworking Masterclasses and now Common Woodworking meant a dream was coming true for me. This was the reality that the best way to preserve my craft…
…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…
…styles commonly called Mission Style furniture. It’s not in any way complicated to make but very comfortable. Surprisingly, I first discovered this when my studies in American furniture took me…
The combination gauge Two gauges common to woodworking are the marking gauge and the mortise gauge and both are essential primarily to joinery. Mortise gauges tend to be more expensive…
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