I did get two sets of the Llidl chisels, 8, 13, 18 and 24mm, and used them in the demonstrations I did today for the students. They are indeed one and the same as the Aldi set and they take and keep the same keen edge that parallel or exceed the best chisel sets available…
Working on the toolbox build Yesterday and today we filmed making the toolbox for the start to the New Year series to start 2015 with. I have a feeling that this could be as popular a series as any we have done so far and as far as conservation goes it’s important to me as it means hundreds…
As my hands seem stronger than ever and my lungs fill and exhale with the pressures of planing and sawing, I catch myself as I reflect on my work training new woodworkers to become truly skilled and competent. Very few courses offer what we have given these past 25 years. Imagine making a dovetailed box…
Finishing the Toolbox Series In the next few days I will finish off the toolbox series. This has been a popular series that clears up the simplicity of making one of the lightest, strongest and most easily made toolboxes. The videos will be out in the new year through online broadcast via woodworkingmasterclasses.com too. On…
Question: I just made a set of these for my oilstones. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to redo them now because I look at yours and then I look at mine and then I look at yours and then I need new boxes that look like you made them and not me! I’ve heard one…
I have always wondered why it seems more and more that we have adverse concepts about standard coping saws when they are so efficient and effective in use and they are one of the easiest and lightest of saws to use. I have given my now five adult sons a coping saw to work with from…
I made an oilstone box and used old mahogany from the table I dismantled. I only needed two pieces 3” by 10” long and 7/8” thick. I’ve made many before and all of the ones I ever saw had lines of holes from the snail of the brace bit the carpenters used to remove the…
Question: Paul, It’s interesting to see how you use moulding planes for moulding things like tabletops and so on and I really enjoyed watching how you moulded the picture frames, but they don’t seem suited to working on end grain. Is there a strategy like special skewed irons or what else can you do to…
Making a narrow strip clamp for laminating. This clamp is as quick and simple to make as it gets, it works really well and costs pennies or scraps alone to make half a dozen to exact size a project. In this case my project is around 4” and so I use wood 6 3/4” long….
Question: Hello Mr Sellers, I have followed your blogs recently on the bevel-up jack planes and have seen some people say that adding a 50-degree bevel iron instead of the 25-degree bevel iron allows the plane to take care of difficult grain. If this is so, why don’t you just add the blade as an…