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The Hand Tool Approach

Hazard A Guess – Evolve Your Skills

November 20, 2017 By Richard Maguire 13 Comments

If you've seen anything from us then you'll know it's not exactly text book stuff. Our approach comes from a heap of passed down knowledge finely blended with many hours of doing at the bench. Then there's the dash of weirdness that my mind adds in. I like to understand stuff. How it works. … [Read more...]

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How To Make Wooden Pegs

September 5, 2016 By Richard Maguire 14 Comments

how to make wooden pegs

A good peg, is a lot more than a roughly ragged out bit of round wood. When you're draw-boring, or just reinforcing a joint, you need a peg that's strong. A good wooden peg should be straight grained, slightly tapered and preferably made up of a series of flats. In this post we'll look at … [Read more...]

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Do You Need A Bandsaw?

May 11, 2016 By Richard Maguire 38 Comments

No, you don’t. As a hand tool woodworker you are fully self sufficient without a bandsaw. At least as long as there's tea in the pot. But if there's one machine that can aid the hand tooler the most, this would be it. When I shunted out my machines at the close of the workbench business, … [Read more...]

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Drawer and Carcase Holding

November 26, 2015 By Richard Maguire 11 Comments

A planing sleeve is a work holding method for things such as assembled drawers and open carcases, so you can plane or work on the outside faces. These are enormously handy when the carcase is too big for your vice, and knocking one up is as easy as fixing a couple of battens to your bench top, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hand Tool Approach, Vices & Work Holding

Arnold and The Bench Knife

November 13, 2015 By Richard Maguire 32 Comments

Today I wanted to share another work holding method that's as simple as it is effective (the best ones always are) and is suited only to those who've broken the fear of scathing their bench. 'The Bench Knife' is an old method certainly used for holding lengths at the sticking board, and it's a … [Read more...]

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Liberate Your Woodworking

November 12, 2015 By Richard Maguire 31 Comments

Sorry if I sound like a feminist, but I feel that liberate is a good word to go with. I've been told it's ironic to watch my way of woodworking, whilst at the same time knowing that I build fancy workbenches. Admittedly I'm a bit rough and brutish using my own bench, sticking stuff in to the … [Read more...]

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Workbench Holdfasts

October 12, 2015 By Richard Maguire 13 Comments

For a simple woodworker when it comes to a problem in life the best bet is to hit hard with a hammer. It's an effective if not delicate approach and once you get in to the mind set there's little that can't be solved. If you find you're spending a lot of time at your workbench stood head … [Read more...]

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Want To Woodwork In The Living Room?

July 31, 2015 By Richard Maguire 14 Comments

how to cut dovetails by hand

You can never have enough space today, or surround yourself with enough things. Woodworking is no different. Where it used to be a man in his shed it now seems that only an air hanger and corresponding air field would be big enough to house all the machinery, jigs and armies of clamps that are … [Read more...]

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This Is Hand Tool Woodworking

June 11, 2015 By Richard Maguire 36 Comments

woodworking with hand tools only

What is a gnat's nadger? It's something very small. Smaller than a 1/64"? Smaller than I would care to measure. If you're getting any smaller then it's a gnat's cock hair. You may see this as being annoyingly vague, or perhaps it makes me sound a bit simple? I find it's necessary for … [Read more...]

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Jiggery / Appliances

April 14, 2015 By Richard Maguire 17 Comments

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 be solved with a few nails … [Read more...]

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