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…
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….
Bailey-pattern planes were designed by Leonard Bailey designed planes and worked for the Stanley company. From here on and throughout the series of articles, I will refer to this plane as the Stanley plane. I do not recommend modern Stanley planes of any type and I will cover this in days to come. The Record soothing…
Hi Paul, Thanks so much for your blogs and desire to teach the craft. I am a young man that feels called to the craft and not just production work. My question to you is how does one start and what steps do I take to work wood full time and know what machines if…
Is this accurately described? Argos is a catalog retailer with over 800 outlets throughout Britain. It’s the largest general-goods dealer in the UK. there are hundreds such companies in the US with one of the largest being IKEA. I visited the Argos store in Derby UK this weekend and saw this sign. The sign is…
Dear Mr. Sellers I am about to work my way through your course, I want to start with sharpening. I recently discovered that my new chisels, although of good quality, needed to be lapped. I turned to my Norton water stones, only to discovered that they needed to be flattened. I then turned to my…
A few days ago I posted on splitting tenons then on Friday we were doing some other filming and I asked if we could quickly film a short video to more fully demonstrate what I was talking about. Below is the result. Enjoy.
Acceptance in our work I have designed everything I ever made and yet have never copied the design of another designer or worked from someone else’s plans since my apprenticeship ended in 1970. Everything I ever made sold within a reasonable time, thousands of things ranging from wooden spoons and spatulas to kingsize beds, armoires…
Why do you saw tenons? We always assume that the best way to cut tenons is to saw them. I think that may be because all books show sawing tenon cheeks and not chopping or paring them. I do saw tenons and indeed teach people how to saw them, but I also encourage the bold…
Paul, I am in the process of building your workbench. The problem I am having is I can’t get each face of the leg 90 degrees to each other. Is there any way I can do this without a jointer? I really would rather do it by hand. Is it possible? I own a Veritas…