Mallet-Making Video Part II on YouTube
The mallet is the fundamental partner to chisels and the next part to the video on mallet making was just posted to YouTube so here it is. I think you’ll enjoy it.
The mallet is the fundamental partner to chisels and the next part to the video on mallet making was just posted to YouTube so here it is. I think you’ll enjoy it.
My creative workspace seemed softer this morning when I arrived. It’s funny how it does that; takes on different shades as I work through the hours of a day and the days of a given week. It changes according to task really, but I am obsessed about dust even though I barely use machines any…
I never thought my workbench would really be of much interest to others but then it was. Now you ask about my cupboards. My tool cupboard is nothing special. It’s not a statement of craftsmanship but it is like most tool cupboards I would have seen throughout my formative woodworking years and especially during my…
A day in work for me creatively unfolds into many options and I usually start early enough to answer emails that came in from countries in time zones ahead or behind mine. I like to keep on top of the emails even though the demands increase each week; that translates into an early start to…
To perhaps close out my workbench series on the bench I currently use I thought you might want some close ups of some things I particularly think makes my work easier. Many of you tell me that you want the inside jaw of your vise flush with the face edge of the bench and that…
Here is the video we made on making my mallets. My old mallets follow a copied pattern I took from a true beauty I discovered in a box of tools I bought back in the 1970s. When I saw nestled amongst moulding planes and a couple of Norrises, it it just impacted me so much…
It’s funny seeing how manufacturers change the art of what we crafting artisans are looking for by taking what exists and then manufacturing their translation of it rather than trying to understand the essence of something we really need. In the demise of British makers producing true quality goods, a void existed and an opportunity…
In my drawer are awkward to place tools I rely on just for a minute or two throughout the days of work. Pliers and thickness callipers, different pencils saw files. You can see that it seems jumbled but it’s really not at all a problem. I found it best to have one front cross divider that…
Question: Paul, This my not be important, but looking at your pencils in the jar in the tool well, I wondered how you sharpened your pencils? John F Answer: Most of my life I used a chisel to sharpen my pencils but `i felt the graphite wasn’t good for my chisels. I use pencil sharpeners…
The drawers at the end of my bench, the ones directly adjacent to my vise, are really tills. Tills are narrow drawers for we woodworkers. They are handier than drawers for some things and we like them because they can be lifted to the bench top, looked into, kept there or put back. My chisels,…