We've listened to many a sob story of how you despise PayPal, so I'm pleased to say there's finally an alternative for purchasing our Online Video Series. On site payments are now up and running and will allow you to complete a purchase with Visa, MasterCard or...
Since ranting about using the cap iron for dealing with tear out, the question 'why do you only use it when smoothing?' comes up a lot. This question is best answered by me asking you to go and do something. Go and set your hand plane up to take a shaving with the cap...
I'll be prototyping a few pieces over the coming months and I recently put in an order for some redwood to knock them up in. Our usual merchant can normally supply nice wide boards of redwood easily, but this time I wasn't so lucky. As an alternative tulipwood was...
The past six months or so have been hectic. We didn't intend to neglect our 'free' video duties but once we'd had great results with our first Premium Series we decided to continue with the next. These first two series were a test for us so there was no pre-planning...
Without a reliable way to hold your work for woodworking we’ll quickly become frustrated. Whilst I’m a firm believer…
First off, it’s still with us. All safe and secured waiting to be put back to use. At the moment we’re working …
We’ve come to the end of the workbenches so today I’m grouping my machines in to a corner of the workshop as tightly…
Since first showing photos of our English workbench, I’ve had almost as many questions about this top as I have about …
It just sits there, dreaming in its bed, which is a suitcase. A lovely vintage suitcase, my lovely vintage suitcase. He gets out every now and then for some grub or a walk of which he takes himself, and can shit were ever he likes. How lovely it must be, to be that...
The start of this week saw the start of our English Workbench Series, and after the weekend we'll be moving on to getting the trestles joined. It's been a busy time for us here as Richard completes his final Maguire Workbench and I've been finishing the edits for our...
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Many of you have pointed out my shoddy array of straight-ish, straight edges. I'm often asked if there's a reason why I favour these home made things over something more posh. This is one of those questions where I really wish I had a good answer. I don’t, but I'll...
Buying timber can seem to be some sort of secret club that you've yet to be initiated in to. I'd like to say that after all these years of sourcing timber I've been through that initiation, but if I'm honest I'm often still stumped. It's not the technicalities that...
Sadly I ain't one of those that can say he’s been in a generations old workshop all of his working life. There aren't tools still hung on the wall that my grandad put up, or boxes full of secrets who's keys were lost lifetimes ago. Instead I seem to move workshop like...