Making My Toolbox – Coping With Dovetails
…the tail recesses but before i do I make a knifewall on the gauge lines to make certain I cut exactly on the line. Now I cut close to my…
…the tail recesses but before i do I make a knifewall on the gauge lines to make certain I cut exactly on the line. Now I cut close to my…
…of a thicker iron in a modern maker’s plane. The make had to diss one to sell what he made. By simply saying, ‘Our thicker cutting irons stop the chatter…
…mostly because what he makes improves the life of another in some way, large or small. Being a solution is the way of life to the artisan and he and…
…good we feel or depressed we might be, but I do know that when time allows space and I go to make whatever I make my outlook on life shifts…
…have built have complexities to them that make them prohibitive to make and indeed quite intimidating. If there are any benefits to them I have yet to see it, but…
…combination squares, however some makers known for making higher quality squares also make a lesser range of combination squares using lower grade materials and less exacting manufacturing standards. At first…
…to make my designs for themselves or (on a noncommercial basis) for friends and family. I make an exception to this for those working as apprentices here in my workshop,…
…watched with our critic’s hats to make sure their were no glaring glitches. For me I was more than amazed at how everything was edited into such a cohesive package….
…on the lathe. But I also wanted to stretch things. If you can make this, you make all kinds of cabinet knobs and handles and this opens yet another machineless…
…subject and the unsubject; the space devoid of content. In my mind’s eye I am now able to envisage what I have yet to make in place and even in…