…there is Atlanta Georgia It has been ten years since I was in beautiful city of Atlanta Georgia and tomorrow I will hopefully touch down there for the Atlanta Woodworking Show’s last show of the season if not the year. I truly enjoyed the warmth of the Sunshine State and I am not talking about…
Benchtop insertion dogs Round or dowel dogs work best in the bench top if you insist on having dogs at all. Metal dogs tend to mar the wood, especially on softer woods, so wooden dowels absorb some of the pressure and reduce this risk. I made some dogs at the show because I felt that…
Yesterday opened as usual right on time and my booth started filling two minutes later. It seemed to me that from that opening things never really slowed down for me. Sunshine makes all the difference to any day and although I couldn’t see outside from the hall, people seemed happy and engaged. For me the…
Customising benches can be an obsessive thing if you don’t take charge by limiting yourself to the essentials. Looking back on my previous postings on the Paul Sellers‘ vise clamping system I found myself relenting a little because there are times when dogs become a man’s best friend. My drawings show the three alternative ways of…
The congruence of two colliding worlds at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport reflect the present-day disjuncture of former woodworking with today’s leftovers of our machine-fed world of mass making methodology. Fort Worth past and present encapsulated this way expresses the unlikelihood of two worlds ever uniting in harmony just as the elevated sculptures split reality in two….
Buffing compound is not always readily accessible and I was scrounging around in Harbor Freight (a national US chain of tool and equipment suppliers in most major towns and cities stateside) the other day and found a compact round stick of green buffing compound for just under $5. It’s a good sized stick about 20mm…
Of dogs it can be said they be to every man his best friend and so I thought to introduce some thoughts on the Veritas planing stops. A little different than dogs but none the less doggedly reliable and doggedly simple. To contrast this with my no nonsense clamp-in-the-vise method, the planing stop anchors boards…
NOTE:Just so you know, Paul has a new Workbench series. If you are interested in the updated version of Paul’s workbench please click the button down below. This page links to a cutting list, tools list, FAQS and much more. Click here to go to the workbench page Workbench Series for Tampa Florida show. Making…
Last day of the show today Tomorrow we move on to Florida, but there is still lots to see today at The Woodworking Shows’ show here in Fort Worth. I took a walk down town between demos yesterday and there is of course lots to do and see, but none of it compares to the…
It’s not very often that I blog on machines, but this demonstration was soooo good. I should have written a blog on this previously, but let’s start here. I sat through Alex Snodgrass’ demonstration on bandsaw set up, maintenance and use the other day and it was quite amazing to watch him work this machine, set up…