Woodworking Ramblings and Rabbit Trails
…for a 5’10” tall male and that people 5’5″ to 6’0″ work comfortably at this height with reduced back pain being the end result. This is of course long-term testing…
…for a 5’10” tall male and that people 5’5″ to 6’0″ work comfortably at this height with reduced back pain being the end result. This is of course long-term testing…
…others I’d come to know. Opening the first door in, visitors came to my bench room where no machines dominated the space but only hand tools on my workbench, surrounding…
…wood. It was made 300 years ago to become one of if not the most well made violins ever made. Some might see its wealth in its saleable value at…
The request for questions surrounding planes went over 300 and they were all interesting and stimulating. There are of course many perspectives from trialling various planes in magazine articles and…
…about what you really need to sharpen your edge tools with minimal fuss and the lowest cost yet without compromising quality. My most commonly used chisels are my 1″, 3/4″,…
…the era. Amazingly, in 300 years, no new hand tool has come into being that wasn’t in existence at that time. The Egyptians had developed bronze woodworking planes and we…
Geometry squares are very nice to use, I think. Triangles. An offcut of quartersawn oak lay at the end of my bench for two weeks and I couldn’t throw it…
Before we move into this, my heartfelt thanks go to the most wonderful woodworking you’s out there who were able to send in every video and comment surrounding my birthday…..
…by step: https://commonwoodworking.com/courses/how-to-make-a-dovetail/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYjoj6cfno&feature=youtu.be Do you have anything to help cut consistent, even dovetails? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqyeNiM0BJuUYOIztKe42WFhUKb2c460t Would you ever gang cut dovetails? https://paulsellers.com/2014/10/making-the-toolbox-pare-and-chop-dovetails-and-pins/ It’s not really a good habit to gang up…
What are scrub planes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1r1LIkJcOg&feature=youtu.be Historical Perspective https://paulsellers.com/2014/07/old-men-old-planes-old-ways-now-gone-the-origin-of-scrub-planes/ https://paulsellers.com/2014/07/concluding-the-scrub-plane-series/ Can you/how can you convert a bench plane to a scrub plane? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN5QSTaVzRQ&feature=youtu.be https://paulsellers.com/2014/07/scrub-planes-from-common-4-smoothing-planes/…
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