Woodworking: From a Lived Life

My life working wood spans 60 years. It’s a long time to have worked it six days a week and for longer working days than most: ten- to 12-hour days for much of my life was quite normal and often longer. The important thing is this ingredient: I volunteered every hour I worked into it....

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Move Your Body. . .

. . . for better health, strength and stamina. Wood works for health and welfare when your hands or on the right tools, and you use all of your own energy and skill in the doing of it. Of the sharpening of many edges there is no end and yet, every tool I ever bought...

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A Vanity For My Little Girl

My daughter Ava has been asking me to build a vanity for years. I intentionally avoided it primarily because I didn’t want to build something really nice only for her to outgrow it in a year or two. Nicole purchased a small pink kids vanity off Amazon and sure enough, that thing was absolutely destroyed by crayons, markers, lipstick and general abuse and it ultimately ended up in a landfill. Finally, at 8 years old, I felt Ava was ready for a real piece of furniture. So I set myself to task of building a vanity for my little girl.

The vanity features two continuous grain drawers in the base as well as a hutch unit that contains two drawers and a door with a lighted mirror. The vanity will also serve as a desk and the hutch is removable should she ever decide to convert it to full-time desk duty.

If you’d like to build this project, we have a full 19 video course in the Wood Whisperer Guild. You’ll received downloadable PDF and SketchUp plans and all of the detailed video instruction you can possibly ask for.

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Days of Old Men Working

I sometimes wonder if they can understand smoothness on wood after the plane, fresh-sharpened, swipes away that last thin shaving to leave a surface they’ve never felt before. I’m talking about someone who only ever planed wood with a machine. The grain, sheer-cut, parted off, away and lifted in the bench plane’s stroking swipes, left...

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One System Fits All

I’ve said it before, and I’ll repeat myself here: sharpening woodworking edge tools is and always will be an abrasive issue. I have used every type of stone and grinder through my 60 years of woodworking. The choice of abrasives may well be a matter of preference, which one you choose depends on how much...

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My World of Wood

There’s no cute titling in my world. As a working lad, working with other men, there was no space for image and pretence. You just made. I’m glad for that now. They didn’t take any truck from young bucks but gave everything they knew to those who were well-mannered and respectful. These men polished their...

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DIY Floating Frames that Anyone Can Make!

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Canvas prints always look better in a floating frame. Many frames are commercially available but most will be cheaply made and won’t be a perfect fit for your artwork. Fortunately, making your own DIY floating frame is easy and inexpensive. All you need is a table saw, miter saw, and drill. For the wood, head to the “project boards” section of your local hardware store.

• • Material for each frame (assuming a 16×16 print): (4) 1/2” x 2 1/2” x 2’ (Sold as 1/2” x 3” x 2’) (4) 1/4” x 1 1/2” x 2’ (Sold as 1/4” x 2” x 2’)
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Low-cost, Long-lasting Sharpening Kit

For sharpening all chisels, planes, spokeshaves and knife types, in fact, anything with a cutting edge, diamond plates do it all, they cut steel very fast, stay flat, and they are cleaner than oilstones, natural stones, water stones, man made or naturally occurring all of which need additional paraphernalia with little good reason or advantage....

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Auguring Well With Augers

We tend to do better amassing tools without paying a premium price when we wait with a patient and watchful eye and are prepared to wait even a year or two to get the tool we want. Apart from starting out as an apprentice, where necessity forced me to buy tools according to need and...

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Narrowing the Chisel Options

A workhorse and a one-type-suits-all to get you in the saddle. Believe me, they work! For some time, probably sixty years now, I have reflected on chisels, types and functions. General chisel work comprises two tasks that in no way are the same and therefore often set the tone for some discussion with those starting...

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Loose Chisel Handle Repair

Some modern makers use a tang that’s forged to make a super strong tang, but it is not the traditional hammer-forged on the anvil type that’s tapered from the bolster to a more refined and consistent taper finishing at a steep, sharp point. I have one of my German-made 6mm chisels that started to squeak...

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Challenges

It’s a strange phenomenon that I cannot always place. Jealousy and envy can be two close bed partners, of course they can, but then there is expert knowledge, insider knowledge and a range of levels between just disliking someone and tall the way up to hatefulness. Challenging the status quo of any majority and suddenly...

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Sharpening––Less to it Than Others Can Make You Think!

I went ahead and ground a chisel I own that I never grind on any kind of mechanical or electric grinder, never, ever hollow grind, and never grind to then sharpen with two bevels. I stopped doing that back in 1965 when I did it under instruction by a college teacher who failed as a...

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