Three generations of shoulder plane
…middle is a favourite and has very tight tolerances around the mouth opening. You don’t need a wide opening because most shoulder work comprises thin shavings .500” or so. The…
…middle is a favourite and has very tight tolerances around the mouth opening. You don’t need a wide opening because most shoulder work comprises thin shavings .500” or so. The…
…you can see why. Coarse-grained woods like this have much more openness to the fibres, those with more open pores throughout the grain plane much more easily. It becomes evident…
…Something that blended in rather than protruding and quietly present when the door was opened. Face fixed is fine but rarely gives the subtlety I was looking for. Who would…
…ray cell. Hmm! This knowledge comes only by experiencing the wood you work in your zone at your hands and NY your willingness to sometimes be patient, experiment and take…
…Saw Tenon Saw Sliding Bevel Gauge Combination square Stanley #4 Plane Woodworker’s Knife Set of Chisels To enter, visit https://paulsellers.com/youtube-giveaway/ and fill out the form. This giveaway is open worldwide,…
This October scene is one I took when I visited Hancock in October of 2012 with my friend Tom. In about three weeks the Hancock Shaker Museum will open its…
…they usually stop before fully entering; as if they don’t want to disturb something special and yet they can’t resist the open space. I am so glad that they love…
…its tighter mouth opening and superior engineering and metal alloys and such. Here is the Lee Valley’s Veritas model – a near perfect tool for some work Indeed, I love…
…needed truing because of wear and unevenness, the mouth opening became marginally wider and more open. Another decade and the mouth would be too wide for fine work and so…
…areas for inlays can be almost impossible without them and they far exceed recessing with power routers when it comes to personal and project safety. Let’s plummet the depths a…
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