Paul’s Plane Strategy
…come into play minute by minute. I switch between a heavy-cut, converted #78 scrub plane to a medium-cut #4 smoother converted to a scrub plane, a #4 1/2 jack plane,…
…come into play minute by minute. I switch between a heavy-cut, converted #78 scrub plane to a medium-cut #4 smoother converted to a scrub plane, a #4 1/2 jack plane,…
…work as cheaply as theirs. “Well,” I said, “Surely competition depends on the rules of how you compete and the fact that before the race begins all competitors are fully…
Ignore the measurements here in, they will vary in the final drawings. In a couple of weeks on woodworkingmasterclasses.com we build the tool cabinet everyone has asked for and it’s…
…very happy to get the superstructure for free but all the more for the speed with which my shed would actually come together. Last week I put up the roof…
…months before the earth radiates relentlessly back long after the day’s end. Relief comes only beneath the live oak’s outspread umbrella and from floating the Rio Frio or the Guadalupe…
Why Common Woodworking came about is because I felt we needed something that could build yet another bridge. I wanted to span the ever-increasing gap between those who only ever…
…that development comes with patience and determination, we can expect to become competent and even experts. I consider this to be like driving a car that once felt clunky and…
…of pressure needed to make a cut, the angle of presentation in free hand cuts. Observation – what we see As we’ve already discussed, the band of light along a…
…from the normal common dado. I have tills at the end of my workbench that have common through dovetails to the back corners because of the restricted length I can…
…him and then say, “those were good days.” Another man comes in. He looks 65 and tells me he is 81. He says, “I loved woodworking classes at school, but…
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