I've decided to write a full review on the Veritas Inset vice shortly since the idea was kindly recommended in a comment by Bill (Billy's Little Bench) last week. For now though I'd like to share a quick extra step that I take when I'm fitting one of these vices....
For a while now we've been making plans and getting ourselves ready for this year's European Woodworking Show. It's only three weeks away and it's at this point each year when we begin to panic; will we really be ready in time? Richard says every year he's going to...
This is to be our first vice to go in to the new (yet to be named) range of sensibly priced, well made hardware. It's a pinless leg vice with St Peter's cross mechanism. The steel screw has a nice rapid thread which is custom made to be coarser than normal to give a...
It's been a long day and we've not long got back and settled down. I've spent a good while now aimlessly stirring my tea and gazing in to the pot looking for answers. You see, today's been one of those days when you smash one of your favourite planes. I was just...
It seems to be normal practice to sit a workbench against a wall and this is something I've often done myself. But having worked in many different layouts I now tend to favour bringing the workbench right out away from the wall instead. In a small workshop this can...
I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking that draw boring is one of those traditional techniques kept alive only as an ambition for keeping the old stuff in use. After all I'm sure there could be arguement to say that with our good modern glues teamed with the...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19cdRocK_gA] This is part two of our small wall cupboard build. If you haven't seen part one yet then you catch up first by clicking here. This time we're tarting the whole thing up, attaching the face frame, shelf and...
Sorry if we've been a bit quiet of late. Things are just very busy here at the moment since we're well and truly in to our August batch of Little John's. Once again it's a nice change of pace and after a long time spent on the joinery Richard should be starting to...
There's always something being worked on in the background here and many times this has been some variant of the St Peters Cross. Richard has worked on many of these over the years trying out different sizes and manufacturing techniques and we even have a great big...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCX6RZGmiRE] In our current project, The Small Wall Cupboard, we use the rebate joint as the main method of joinery. In this video I show you an alternative approach to cutting the rebate joint by hand with only the very...
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