Today I wanted to give a big hat's off to our modern tool makers. They come in all shapes and sizes and whilst they're products are highly respected and admired there's a lot more good they do besides which can easily be over looked. We're all used to living in a...
You wouldn't think to look at it but my scrub plane is rather posh - it's a Lie Nielsen which I've had from new so to many people (including myself) it may seem a bit extravagant for a roughing tool. Previously I've just converted an old Number 4 to serve this job and...
Over the past couple of weeks I've had to remind myself that's it's January. A few bright and mild days and a little chipping up in the trees had put that unmistakable hint of Spring in the air around here so I was almost pleased to see a thick blanket of frost...
Building a Workbench This is will be the first post of probably hundreds on my new workbench for the hand tool workshop. I've taken my Little John bench round there for the time being to allow me to potter and keep busy but it's surprising how dependable this has...
When it comes to paring chisels I have but one. It's 1" wide and I keep it in fairly good shape but I only using it now and again and only because it's there. Come to think about it this may be the only paring chisel which my grandad, old man and I have ever owned...
We spent a lot of time over Christmas getting our new hand tool workshop ready for filming and so it's probably time for us to bring you up to speed. The most obvious progression since our last post on this is that we've changed building! Getting to know the property...
Thanks to everyone for all of the comments on yesterday's bench height post , it turned out to be a very varied discussion and I'm pleased we are able to get so many views on a topic which I've always thought should be diverse. Like many of the commenters I'm of the...
I have a great respect for Paul Sellers and especially for the amount of time that he puts it to encouraging hand tool usage. But I was pointed to a post on his blog today which I had mixed feelings on and I did find myself a little riled reading through. There were...
When I first started in woodwork I was shown how to sharpen my saws within a very makeshift device. It was simply a piece of wood as long as the saw with a kerf cut in to it to about ninety percent of its depth so that the saw could be slotted in place. The whole...
For the first time since we started Maguire Workbenches we've had a nice long break over Christmas and this has kept us a little distant from here. But now we're back and the focus of this next year is all about creating new videos and stepping things up on this blog....
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