Primitive Sharpening From Times Past
…say we are now the best, you cannot dismiss past quality and say we are better today than ever because few examples of modern work come near in matching the…
…say we are now the best, you cannot dismiss past quality and say we are better today than ever because few examples of modern work come near in matching the…
…and so far as I know it knows no equal. The trouble is it’s prompted questions that come up all too often so hopefully the video we just made will…
…so-called professional realms be they carpenters or engineers. Thankfully, their influence is small if existent at all. Their negative comments usuallyshow that they missed the whole point. As an example,…
…anything I can think of. If they make ten more boxes and three more tables to compliment what they made here they will have become competent and internally fulfilled woodworkers….
…is something just very different that most people might miss. I suppose what it is is the minutest flex of a wide chisel or plane stroke that somehow feels completely…
…must always go around my bench to get to the piece I am building. Machinists need no such arrangement generally as all of the components they build come from fixed…
…to the space you created but any additional space for compression in the ‘spring‘ from the wedges themselves, which will compress under driving pressure and then too the same spring…
…at the house brought comfort and personality to the dining kitchen and, of course, personal mental comfort for the designer maker. I prefer using the wood as decoration rather than…
…in sideways. Planing grain with complex grains that are highly figured, coarsely textured or fine for us is a complex issue. Unlike the machined wood coming from the planer in…
…commercial ones are inexpensive and range in price between £60 and £300. A hand-made version like this takes many hours to make and complete but the handwork makes it obviously…
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