The blog is growing fast, and some times things dictate to you where you've got to go next. The move of our workshop last year was somewhat forced and timed itself together with an offer of writing a book. We find ourselves in a workshop with a size and set up that is...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW4BWfC3cIA] UPDATE - The Full Build Is Now Available! CLICK for details. I've been making a few hand planes this week in preparation for an upcoming series we have planned all about getting in to wooden planes. I've...
You've likely noticed the links to a Premium section of our website. This is now well on the way to being launched and so it's probably about time that we bring you a bit more info. Note: Our first series is now live. You can find full details including a...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmDVa5cxq8w] This is the last (for now) of three videos about cap irons / chip breakers. If you haven't seen the others then you can find them here: Cap Irons & Tear Out Preparing The Cap Iron / Chip Breaker I find a...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVfJxDFNinc] Following from the last video, we're looking at setting up a cap iron. This one's in two parts and the second video can be found here.
It all started with a lovely sunny day and, ... just read this. Yep, basically that happened again. This time however I was prepared with a nice wooden floor, so there is no damage what so ever to the castings or any of the metal. It did crack the handle clean in two...
The first time we took our benches to see the public I was a bag of nerves. We took along a huge fancy Roubo type thing, but it was the other, simple bench we took that was my favourite. I hoped to focus on the idea that a good bench could be simple so the tail vice...
There's a time for fettling, restoring and swatting dates in old books. In fact it seems that we spend a lot of time doing these things. Sometimes we need to make the time to build stuff. It's easy to think, "I'll be able to build that once I've tuned this up some...
Early last year I signed for a large mysterious parcel. It was clear from the labelling that it had come from far and distant lands, but there was no hint to what lurked within. Opening the box (like a savage) revealed a collection of books, each beautifully covered...
As I mentioned last week this lathe is very quick to build, don't make it anything other. I've stripped it back to nothing but the essentials and then used screws to fix it all together. The design could be improved to make it more attractive, or maybe a bit more user...
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Wood has always been in my life. My old man did it for a living. I always remember the sawdust in his pockets, and even when he got home, the forgotten pencil lodged behind his ear. He also had a massive moustache. It feels very strange when I stop to think. Apart...