Saw sharpening and more – Wednesday
…better. Throwable? Cheap? No not really. There’s a price pay and it’s not necessarily us that will pay long term but more likely our children. In a culture striving always…
…better. Throwable? Cheap? No not really. There’s a price pay and it’s not necessarily us that will pay long term but more likely our children. In a culture striving always…
…because of the addition of the adjustable extra pin point and so we find a unique gauge we call the combination gauge. It makes good sense then to add another…
…good old bevel-down Stanley does almost everything they really need. The first stage with fettling any bench plane is sharpness and so here I am showing how to sharpen the…
…it every day throughout my working life and I have sharpened every other week throughout that time. It has indeed been a good saw and I see them all the…
…create only a tiny piece of the whole. This cheapened life came as a result of people like Henry Ford who’s contribution to fragmenting, society, community and family gave us…
As you know I posted recently on Nicholson’s retrograde step in forsaking their US roots and reputation in pursuit of exploitation of cheaply produced files and in the process compromised…
…old and left boyhood behind. Toy saws I left in a wooden box and I bought a Stanley #4 plane from mister Cheapy who came in a Morris Minor 1000…
…sense to me as the file held in the handle means much less wastage of good file steel. These at left are how we all remember UK files. They are…
…him and then say, “those were good days.” Another man comes in. He looks 65 and tells me he is 81. He says, “I loved woodworking classes at school, but…
…run their hands over barn doors, touch iron wrought in the forges of workmen two hundred years past. They know nothing now of the tools a man used “back then”,…
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