Where Freedom Thrives Most . . .
…and had never used a plane and never experienced sharp chisels, she was a maker yet to emerge. She’d never made a dovetail or a mortise and tenon and then,…
…and had never used a plane and never experienced sharp chisels, she was a maker yet to emerge. She’d never made a dovetail or a mortise and tenon and then,…
…replete with drawers and laden with tools from the previous century. He had inherited them from his father and grandfather. Ebony braces, squares and forty-fives. Long paring chisels and chariot…
…get for having a set you made you can also match them perfectly to the chisels you might use alongside them too. This Stanley is a formidable plough plane, indefatigable…
…course, our work is 99% handwork so the shoulders for our tenons are always hand-sawn and pare-cut with saws and chisels to the knifewalls we first establish. Our aims are…
…conversion of machines to take out the risk of human error. My work before that point was hand work. Tenons from tenon saws and mortises from chisels and mallets. That…
…threads and the sliding left or right of a lever. I have bought different versions of so-called high-end (and higher priced) tools like planes, chisels, saws and such to trial…
…methods together with a thousand pieces of support equipment in guides, gadgets and very noisy gizmos and here I was with four chisels, a Stanley plane, a gents saw, tenon…
…don’t need to wait. Nothing’s changed except my more creative knowledge of how best to work with each category of tools: that’s planes, saws, chisels, hammers and so on. Strategic…
…over the life of the saw? It’s really no different sending out plane irons and chisels with a 25º ground bevel that’s not honed surgically sharp. Sharpening sharpenable tools is…
…shapes with spokeshaves, chisels, gouges, rasps and so on. This is my design from 25 years ago. Yes, I could have used the machines I owned but I didn’t need…