[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bhh6kxXZOQ] Stubborn tear out can be a huge frustration. Particularly when you're just getting everything smoothed off and it shows it's ugly face. I'm not one for faffing about with my tools, and whilst I expect my...
I recently knocked up a couple more commodes and have now turned my attention to the second of the Stooges - The Moravian Back Stool. I'm very fond of this design and whilst the commode was all square this one's all angles and I'm starting out by tooling up. A lathe...
We have more space here than we need at the moment, but only if you don't mind sharing it with nature. Good, sealed working space on the other hand is tight and so we have to be well organised and only keep to hand what is essential. Richard and I were rummaging...
Small Planes Are The Best For Smoothing When writing these articles I hope to provide an insight in to my ways of working. This is never to dictate, and if you read it as though what I do is the right, or the only way to go about things then you could end up...
In one of the recent videos I was whining on about the jack plane, and how feel that the No 5 is the best all round, multi use bench plane. In another video I've also mentioned my love for a nice small smoothing plane, so I thought it'd be worth going...
I've finally completed the new website design and with a bit of luck you should be seeing it now. It was time for a change to get things up-to-date in regards to viewing on mobiles and smaller screens, on which you should now be finding things easier to view and...
I've been spending a lot of time out in the sun this past week or so; setting up a (make shift) vegetable plot and tending to the weeds. Ordinarily I'd be feeling very guilty about doing anything beside work in work hours and I still am a little. But after a pretty...
When it comes to workbench design there's a rule to suit us all. Keep it simple, make it strong. Give any woodworker a French bench, an English bench, a trestle and a door fitted out with original Victorian handle bench... As long as they're strong, they all work. The...
I've never been a big jigger in my workshop. I'm stumped to find a value for anything more than my simple shooting board/ bench hook combo. And the odd stick. I think the reason is because I've never been precious about my bench top and there's no problem which can't...
There's rarely anything fun about a woodworking injury, and yet when I make videos about using hand tools I don't feel the need to put up a big disclaimer about keeping safe. I don't feel irresponsible for a lack of this but it is certainly a subject worth writing...
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