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…with a penchant for mastering hand skills with hand planes. He went on, “It’s important to remember that planes come from a slower age when the progression towards competency was…
…with a penchant for mastering hand skills with hand planes. He went on, “It’s important to remember that planes come from a slower age when the progression towards competency was…
…more, you will need to join me for the teaching on woodworkingmasterclasses.com and commonwoodworking.com. I never stand still for long. Life is an unfolding way of working. It’s culture and…
…like what’s coming from the chisel edge and the saw teeth. It feels good. Angled hanging pegs, clean lines ti the shoulder lines and repeat sliding dovetails makes it great…
…looks like a complicated inlay. For the aprons I veneered these after I had completed the joinery to maintain the uniform thickness I wanted for the joinery layout and cutting….
…real austerity of the war years changed the quality of hand tools in Britain forever. Here is an example of what I mean. I took a clunkish tenon saw I…
…context of my design technology lessons. We discussed the possibility of sharpening some of the grotty old saws which are available for the use of my pupils. On closer examination,…
I’ve commented on inexpensive tools available to woodworkers because sometimes it is false economy to buy something that seems cheap because it seems inevitable that the tool or equipment will…
…would cost about £140, so, for a £5 investment, we bought £240 -£500 worth of saws. The snipe bill moulding plane is just lovely. It has the patina of a…
…Inspiration comes with every breath and movement and I shuffle my belongings around to intake the next batch of wood and students at the some time. It’s an important phase…
…in any class that I have here at the woodworking school and students quickly undersand from concrete examples like this. See how the incorrect secondary bevel of 45…
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