Just a Dovetail Joint
…will do (and better) without all the extra baggage that comes with ever-engineering and too much unnecessary weight. Someone commented recently on having to sharpen a plough plane iron and…
…will do (and better) without all the extra baggage that comes with ever-engineering and too much unnecessary weight. Someone commented recently on having to sharpen a plough plane iron and…
…small scale levels, this feels as though it may well be my last workshop. Since my last making to sell in the USA ended my commission work I no longer…
…inch and more across the board beneath my plane and completely changes shape, size and position and it is completely beyond my control. From single simple dots to a series,…
…badly and result in toe-in or toe-out and have many other discrepancies leading to uneven clamping, its the ones that come manufactured by design that we sometime malign because, well,…
…I began and I do that because it’s just good for me to recognise my imperfections. Today I have five nice projects completed. They are not complicated, but they did…
…have a saleable commodity. If we had a choice, mine would be the opening of a toolbox sealed by a man sometime in the late 1800s. One day these tools…
…and so that’s what I spent this week doing. Whether you need to learn how to make half-lap dovetails or reinforce your skills, this is inexpensive, compact, relatively easy and…
…Compression from between my fingers and thumbs. Though at first I had no register recorded to make comparisons to. They, George, at first anyway, chuckled. “What do you think you’re…
…my case I have ended up opening up the throat openings with a flat file because in most cases tight throats lead to greater risk of clogged shavings in the…
…means I get the exact size for each component. But I admit what goes down on paper might change in the doing of things, changing the final outcome slightly. My…
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