Replacing Screws and Caps…
…engineering. It’s common practice to ‘guide’ the ‘bolt’ in a centered presentation to the hole. Combined with a similar chamfer to the screw (bolt) it pretty much guarantees there is…
…engineering. It’s common practice to ‘guide’ the ‘bolt’ in a centered presentation to the hole. Combined with a similar chamfer to the screw (bolt) it pretty much guarantees there is…
Imagine Making Every Stick of Furniture for Your Home With the builders having finished phase one I released myself to embrace further planning for my designs to come to fruition…
…It’s a composition of carefully picked parts, woods and joints. Comment FB Statement: If you drive steel screws into oak it will cause rust and the rust will split the…
…above. Also, it’s good to remember that screw-threaded clamps were not at all always as common to woodworkers as they are today and so were not commonly used in earlier…
…would we have women-only woodworking classes? My Comment: I was surprised that in the USA the percentage of women to men in my classes was highly disproportionate. Roughly, less than…
…to do with the alignment and synchronising of the planes I use as anything else. Four or five planes is common to me. The two scrub planes, adapted #78 and…
…find out if they do. Which files do you recommend? There is an overview & some recommendations in the following blog post: https://paulsellers.com/2015/05/saw-files-lasting-qualities/ A File and Rasp for Beginners https://commonwoodworking.com/buying-a-file/ https://commonwoodworking.com/buying-a-rasp/…
I bought my first square, a combination square, in 1965, 90 or so years after Laroy S Starrett invented the tool for engineering machinists. My combination square was made by…
…Company in Sheffield is responsible for now making these saw blades. It states that the company they are purporting to be dates back to 1828. Almost two centuries. Somehow, it…
…show you the basics of setting up for use and how to sharpen Which coping saw and blades do you recommend? https://paulsellers.com/2014/11/coping-and-the-costs-of-coping-saws-and-blades/ https://commonwoodworking.com/buying-handsaws/ Using a Coping Saw https://commonwoodworking.com/using-saws/ https://paulsellers.com/2014/02/coping-coping-saws/ https://paulsellers.com/2014/02/coping-coping-saws-addendum/…
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