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Buying Good Tools Cheap – Sliding Bevel

Buying Good Tools Cheap – Sliding Bevel

26 July 201314 November 2019

The months have passed since I bought one of these. Generally perhaps a lower interest tool and yet for chair making and other tasks they are virtually indispensable. Made for or distributed by Sandford, famed for their layout tools to big box stores and local hardware stores alike, this tool struck as having the makings…

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Buying good tools cheap – Starter Chisels UK

Buying good tools cheap – Starter Chisels UK

18 November 201231 October 2019

There was a time when imported tools were both cheap to buy and cheap in quality, which of course isn’t cheap but false economy. In the sixties we in the UK were flooded with low grade products from the the German Democratic Republic, Japan, India, China’s Hong Kong and others. Those days are long gone…

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Buying Good Tools Cheap – The Router Plane

Buying Good Tools Cheap – The Router Plane

2 November 201216 October 2021

Routers online Routers for most people conjure up a range of different images ranging from face shields and dust extractors to dust masks ear plugs hearing protection and other head gear resembling and American football team player or a SWAT team member. Of course for 99.9% of machinist woodworkers this is essential equipment. That equates…

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Buying good tools cheap – On chisel hammers

Buying good tools cheap – On chisel hammers

15 October 201231 October 2019

Question: Paul, I am working with your DVD and book and have made great progress with sharpening my tools. I finished the dovetail box and I just started the bookcase. Can you tell me where to get the chisel hammer that you use? Also I would like to take your foundation course in NY. When…

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Buying good tools cheap – Tape measures

Buying good tools cheap – Tape measures

13 October 201221 June 2015

We seem almost besotted with giant tape measures in our western world of woodworking, but of course in construction they are now essential. How we managed before they were developed to what have today I don’t know. I grew up with a three-foot four-fold Rabone rule made from boxwood and I still use it at…

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Buying good tools cheap – Introducing the hand saws

Buying good tools cheap – Introducing the hand saws

30 September 201231 October 2019

I am going to risk it I own a belt sander 4” wide. It’s made by Trend and it’s a piece of poor workmanship but the price was right because I could see how to improve it for what I wanted it for and this is where I take the risk. It’s really the risk…

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Buying good tools cheap – What planes do you use?

Buying good tools cheap – What planes do you use?

29 September 201221 June 2015

I would that someone would have come out with the regular Stanley #4 plane Bailey pattern again. You know, the lightweight one. One with nice Padauk or curly cherry handles. Or even highly polished beech would work for me with no stain. Also, I know the German tool makers Kuntz made a very junky model…

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Buying good tools cheap – Bullnose planes

Buying good tools cheap – Bullnose planes

25 September 201221 June 2015

Bullnose planes are an added luxury until you really need one. I bought my Stanley 90 in 1966 and I am still using it. The nickel plating is mostly gone now and I never altogether understood why they used it because mine never did rust. I just use it a little and a lot depending…

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Buying good tools cheap – About Smoothers

Buying good tools cheap – About Smoothers

22 September 20126 March 2017

Ebay and smoothing planes I am sure for every good thing I say about eBay smoothing planes there will be someone who can counter what I say, but I have bought about a hundred smoothing planes on eBay in the past three years and only one had a real problem that I fixed and got…

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Buying good tools cheap – smoothing planes

Buying good tools cheap – smoothing planes

21 September 201221 June 2015

Hand planes are the source of great debate these days. I can’t imagine such a silly thing really. The internet has connected many debaters with little good fruit, but some, a little, maybe. I have been giving some serious thought to many things I have said or say or do or don’t do with planes….

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