Friday, October 27, 2023

Making a Few Tools

Some tools are just plain simple. The very simplest looking of all and the most misunderstood in its complexities is the plate steel card scraper. This single-piece tool is misunderstood just as much by professional woodworkers who rarely ever use them even as long-term woodworkers as it is by those just being introduced to the...

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Saturday, October 21, 2023

Today’s Making

My corner desk is completely finished with all the protective coats needed to keep it smooth through the decades ahead. This spalted beech came from a friend who sold it knowing he would never be able to use it. I’ve had it now for four years and confess I had no way of knowing what...

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Sunday, October 15, 2023

Plane Away

I think planing wood is quite a troublesome and complex aspect of our working of wood but the good thing is that for every fibre-tearing, grain-ripping stroke of negative pain there are a hundred and many more really good ones. One thing that’s certain is the unpredictability of wood when it comes to planing with...

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Sunday, October 8, 2023

Accept No Substitutes

I am sometimes told by this owner of a bevel-up plane or that owner of a bevel-downer, the york-pitch advocate and the scraper plane expert that this or that plane takes care of this and that grain, wood type and so it goes. There are moderate differences between planes but the range of plane type...

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Saturday, October 7, 2023

Lone Woodworking

In my choice of individuality, I mostly engage in lone woodworking. There aren’t too many of us out there. My work includes writing, drawing, designing and photography too, but the bulk of my day is still making at the workbench in non-commercial, non-industrial ways. I took myself off of the conveyor belt almost before the...

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