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…what I saw in tools chests at my working at the bench. The selection of specific tools back in the 1980’s for instance would be very small when compared to…
…what I saw in tools chests at my working at the bench. The selection of specific tools back in the 1980’s for instance would be very small when compared to…
To read more about sharpening tools on our Common Woodworking site, click here You can skip the next three paragraphs deliberating on freeform and conformity and get beyond my opening…
…flat was crowned. Tipping the plane on its corner across the board’s width showed the highs and lows, if there were any. It was simple and commonly done. Now I…
…about it really, just a comment tossed over the shoulder as they walk away from any kind of accountability for it. “Too much glue!”, one says, and then, “Too little…
…As far as I have seen through the years is it is not so much IKEAS ability to design and democratise but more their ability to produce zero- or minimalist-design…
It’s quite a lovely plane really. Compact and lightweight, feisty in the hand and then dead gutsy. That’s how I feel about all of the #3s really. I love plucking…
…method wasn’t common or at all necessary in today’s woodworking any more. Or was it? It was when I saw that air-nailers had become common that I reintroduced the nail-cum-drill-bit…
…two sides are rigidly clamped when we put in the alignment pieces, so it doesn’t seem they can move anything into position. Would you please give some examples of problems…
…college. Sat through many hours of boring talks and lectures knowing that the lecturer taught because they couldn’t hack it in an adult world. I passed all of my exams…
…a new design I want to try and a project genesis quickly comes together in multiple dimensions. I look through the workshop door, listen to the shavings crushing underneath my…
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