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…or not, in certain ways. As a very brief example most men working wood a hundred years ago sharpened their own saws. If, like me, they used a simple saw…
…or not, in certain ways. As a very brief example most men working wood a hundred years ago sharpened their own saws. If, like me, they used a simple saw…
…believe in it, Paul. Believe in yourself!” Drawing things out on wood as a note has become common all through my life. The plane works as an eraser for a…
…a half-litre in no time at all. Now the question comes: where are you pouring the waste solvent now so polluted with both solvent and oil? This is where the…
…the critical components will be ‘free’ or ‘floating’ parts where some of the cponents are minimally a=or totally unharnessed. Tabletops can be the most ‘free’ parts in a piece in…
…free to expand and contract throughout its life and so it ‘floats’ in and out according to the relative humidity of the atmosphere surrounding the piece. Other panels are also…
This week I have worked substantially with two tools used in woodworking and sometimes in other materials like stone and plastic. One is definitively known as a rasp. Rasps come…
…the plane handles fore and aft. George had me remove both of these too. Any other components revolved around the cutting iron assembly, which were all bolt-on components allowing for…
…commonly occurs when we make gods of mere skilled machinists with personalities that persuade us against better judgement. Thirty to forty years ago this all began with the fastest and…
…work at a bench there are several criteria that must be faced. Probably the most critical is size, this then comes down to you building into what you have available…
…what did go wrong? Well, we know that we can get things wrong, but this comprises a series of perhaps smaller issues leading to the bigger issue of poor information/communication…
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