Is Heft a Cultural Thing?
…I am making which is always very common. But I do get it that heavy joinery in big frames with any kind of regularity will usually benefit from cast iron…
…I am making which is always very common. But I do get it that heavy joinery in big frames with any kind of regularity will usually benefit from cast iron…
…figured oak for something special and what could be more special than a new baby? I got the more complicated work completed so I felt pretty satisfied because presenting the…
…guaranteed consistent specs, quality and supplies. My router plane showing the metal components in the kit but please note, you supply your own wood! The components that were trickier were…
…come out with a decent looking saw and compete in an open market. Joel Finkel and I tested out the LN and the S&J together. This article prefaces the comparison…
…not had any problems. I alternate the grain on adjacent boards and find they come out pretty flat even without the use of biscuits or dowels for levelling. What are…
…common mostly was that they all used computers to a greater or lesser degree, another thing was a penchant to become skilled craftsmen in their own right. They wanted also…
…we did for the vises themselves. In the latter parts of the last century, takeovers took place whereby American Tool bought out the UK Record Marples company of Sheffield fame….
…wooden components. I tried to imagine what would have come up with the Mary Rose had everything m[been made from MDF. Of course it’s a hideously characterless product developed yet…
On my present project I’m using a combination of joints alongside one another to grow everyone’s development and skill in joinery. Doing this makes for skilled woodworkers and so preserves…
I’d been unloading for about two hours. The truckload of kiln-dried, Russian redwood was some of the most beautiful pine I had ever seen. Sixteen footers of knot-free wood in…
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