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After a long break, we’re back at it.
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Yep! Launched it yesterday so please join in and follow the link below if you want to enter my latest giveaway. Thank you all for your continuing support and for taking us over the 300,000 subscriber mark on our YouTube Channel. I love that our woodworking community continues to grow and that we are able […]
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I wanted to use my benchtop belt sander as a safe and accurate way to grind my hand tools. By …
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It was not all easy Gradually the workshop has, well, fallen into place. The motivating factor all along was to be able to work efficiently and create the extra time we needed to not only make efficiently but film too. Filming pretty much triples my time because not only do I have to make a prototype, […]
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We were disheartened to hear that our friend, avid Beatles fan and MASW woodworking instructor, Zane Powell, is now facing …
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My family recently took a trip to Lakeside, Ohio, with another family from our neighborhood. It was someone’s idea …
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When I moved to Colorado, I was lucky to buy a home that featured a very nice office space. It’s one of those offices where there’s actually no space for a desk against a wall and the only logical place to put one is in the middle of the floor. Fortunately, I also have a power outlet in the floor as well as an ethernet cable. I had a makeshift desk in place that had absolutely no storage so my desk was always a mess. This Executive Desk project features not only storage, but a few technology upgrades and creature comforts like in-drawer power, wireless charging, built-in outlets, and a ventilation fan. If you’re interested in a full video series and a complete set of plans, check this project out in the Wood Whisperer Guild.
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Hey, welcome back. It’s me again, Daniel Fishkin. In my first post I introduced you to the musical instrument called …
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We had a great and very hot summer for the UK and I am glad the hot weather has gone and we have a little more mildness. Taking my walks confirms the changing season and we have fully ripe rose hips, lots of blackberries and the leaves are falling in both the horse chestnuts and […]
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One of the most frustrating flaws in a dried finish is bubbles. The trick is to avoid getting them in …
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One of the most frustrating flaws in a dried finish is bubbles. The trick is to avoid getting them in …
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Teaching is a two-way street. It’s not just for students. As an instructor, you get to peek into the many …
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While buying some dowels at Menards this weekend I lucked into finding some of the Stanley 175th Anniversary tape measures …
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I’ve been working out of town for three of the four last weeks, with precious little time in my shop. …
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Anyone who’s ever watched, or seen Frank Klausz speak in public understands that they’re learning from a guy who knows …
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Someone told me I had to get an impact driver. It was silly really, I felt. He didn’t know me at all. He didn’t know my financial circumstance. He didn’t understand me. He couldn’t know I didn’t want one because he would only be able to see his own perspective. More importantly he couldn’t see […]
Read the full post Flexing Your Muscle Power on Paul Sellers' Blog.
Go to your local building supply store, and find a cheap plunger (mine was $3). Then take the handle off …
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We just published a new episode of I Can Do That! In this episode, I built a small kitchen island …
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…useful additions for laminated projects come to be. I don’t really throw much wood away, it costs too much, even thin strips that seem like throwaway offcuts and often cause clutter can be organised in bins and buckets on end and kept for use in a well-designed small project. This week I took some such […]
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Last week I taught a class on how to design and build furniture using reclaimed and scrap wood at Snow …
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I am never sure what to make of thick thin, hard, softer when it comes to plane irons and spokeshave blades. They have all worked for me through the decades but many reviews are biased one way or another depending on whether, hovering somewhere in the background, you actually derive income to some degree or […]
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Recently, I had an exchange with a friend who does woodworking as a hobby, and the exchange made me realize …
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Recently, I had an exchange with a friend who does woodworking as a hobby, and the exchange made me realize …
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Many a woodworker first encountered a marking gauge in dad or grandpa’s toolbox. We picked it up, played with it, …
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I was a little surprised that the Stanley 151, red and black version, could still be had new. I’m not sure why but Stanley upped the anti with their most basic spokeshave. Following the poor work of Draper spokeshave I asked Izzy to buy in a new Stanley. People new to woodworking need a good […]
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As Chris recently announced on the Lost Art Press blog, we’re ending our official relationship at the end of November. …
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As a society, we throw a lot of things away. Yes, we feel guilty about it and we try to …
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On woodworkingmasterclasses we’ve often developed thinner pieces, strips, for things like chess board veneers blocking, coasters and such. Sometimes thicker pieces like table legs have been planed parallel too, or indeed intentionally tapered within extremely tight margins. Our members can be forgiven for taking the methods we use to guarantee exactness for granted, thinking it’s a […]
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Finding quality used hand tools in the wild can be a challenge in the Midwest. Usually the best strategy is …
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This contemporary take on a classic shaker settee builds skills and design sense. Many of my first woodworking …
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Fixing up the bullnose plane didn’t take much at all. The pictures really help when buying via eBay and I usually scrutinise them. Notice on my old model how the nickel plating is now patchy with wear after 50 years in the using, well, by the time i depart this earth there’s a good chance […]
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Wireless charging is cool. Wireless charging that is completely hidden is even cooler! When I built my Executive Desk, I knew I wanted to include wireless charging as a feature but I didn’t want to look at a charging pad all the time. To hide the charger, I can route a recess in the underside of the desktop and charge directly through the wood. The big question is, how much wood can exist between the charger and the device? Much of this depends on the charger and the device itself, but my tests showed a bare iPhone X working with as much as 1/4″ thick stock. When it comes to phone cases it’s a crap-shoot since cases come in so many different sizes, thicknesses, and materials. So if you plan on installing hidden wireless charging in a desktop, I highly recommend testing for yourself.
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Every job has challenges, but some jobs involve a set of conditions that combine to create a challenge far greater …
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I don’t believe Ron Herman would argue with his being described as somewhat obsessed with traditional hand tools. For someone …
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Quick release and cast-metal woodworking vises are not all created equal. Some are intentionally made low grade, others high. Some are intentionally engineered with something we call toe-in, meaning the top edge of the front vise jaw touches and aligns with the rear vise jaw but the lower area has a 3mm or so gap. […]
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It’s been too long since I shared a PopWood Playback episode with our Shop Blog readers. As some of you …
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Many things influence the performance of your bandsaw and the outcome varies according to any one or many of those influences. The outcome is of course reflected in the quality of the cut left as the wood progresses into, along and through the cut. Identifying what causes poor cutting is often problematic because the variables […]
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A new Stanley #90 is a true treasure to own and its design is flawless. In my view the Stanley #90 bullnose plane, the one with depth adjustment, not the 90J, is a world best. I find the sloped nose gives better entry in awkward corners rather than the more blocky, squared off ones. It […]
Read the full post I Bought Another Bullnose Plane on Paul Sellers' Blog.
By: Wilbur Pan When it comes to the history of woodworking, period furniture styles, and woodworking techniques, most …
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I think it was in my mid years when I crossed a line, stopped apologising, determined my course. It was a day when I stepped off the production line, placed my machines second, pulled my hand tools to the fore and wondered how I could live without them, my workbench and my woodworking. I couldn’t. […]
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When WoodRiver announced its new socket chisels, I was very intrigued. Price-wise, these chisels fall into the intermediate range – …
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I was 15. My plane arrived with Mr Cheapie, boxed in a Stanley orangey-yellow box with a dark green and white lable. At the bench Cheapie watched me unwrap the wax ed aper from the plane and checked I was happy with it. I paid him my week’s wage, £3.50 for that and a screwdriver […]
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I have long held the opinion that trying to learn motion from the printed word is at best a challenge …
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There’s a funny thing about digital tools that use Cartesian coordinate and movement systems — these are tools that operate …
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Hannah repurposed one of my old workbenches to fit into a shed for motorbike repairs. Probably more work than building from new but the wood was free and the practice good for her. Watching her move through the work with such confidence showed the progress she’s made over the last couple of years. Even in […]
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I use Southern yellow pine for a lot of shop projects, especially for building workbenches and sawbenches. But I also …
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Well, it’s not a finishing line so much as a non line we cross each time we close a project with the finish on. Each time I do that I make notes in my mind to see what I learned from the experience. Plywood tenons and how to cut tenons without splintering so thin a […]
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Three years ago while teaching a woodworking class at Peters Valley I met Blacksmith Eric Dennis, who was at the …
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Last week we spent a 12 hour day in The American Woodshop with Scott Phillips. Our mission was to …
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A while back I posted a trick for using blue painters tape to help adjust a router cut. The response …
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It would be hard to find a question in woodworking more often asked and more often inadequately answered than how …
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It would be hard to find a question in woodworking more often asked and more often inadequately answered than how …
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Although I rarely work with metal (other than metal hardware such as hinges, pulls, z-clip tabletop fasteners and screws), every …
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The age of uncertainty eventually passes. That’s what happened for me. No longer did I seek the approval of others. My pieces sold. My work, the outcome of my efforts, became more predictable the older I got in that I knew I could develop the idea to a working model. Even new designs ultimately sold […]
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Last week, the woodshop across the street from mine caught on fire. Luckily, no one was hurt, the firemen arrived …
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By George R. Walker Meet Reid Schwartz: artist, interested human, maker of tools, worker of wood and restorer of old …
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I tried buying some wood from an importer who once sold regularly to me and then said no more, too small, can’t tie up manpower for small buyers. It’s happened before. It was one just five miles away—convenient but obviously with no commitment or loyalty to it’s customers, Timbermet, so that’s not an option now. […]
Read the full post Co-op Wood Buying? on Paul Sellers' Blog.
Whenever I explain how “ripple moulding” is made by a “waving engine” – a circa 17th-century machine – most woodworkers …
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The thing that’s wrong with a blunt pencil is that you just can’t see the point in it. Here is a tool I recommend for anyone who likes sharp pencils all the time. Whereas I like and use a rotary pencil sharpener in the workshop, when i am out and about I found I had […]
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I feel bad. A year or two ago I said the Draper (UK) spokeshave would be more than adequate as a user spokeshave to begin woodworking with. Today I am forced to say do not buy a Draper spokeshave. We mentioned it on our tool buying guide for Common Woodworking in good faith because it […]
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Like any Arts & Crafts enthusiast, I like the Gustav and L. & J.G. Stickley classics. But every since I …
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Cutting wedges, plugs or dowels flush with the surrounding surface is a source of great frustration for many woodworkers. Either …
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I am making a bed headboard which requires multiple mortise and tenon joints on different wood thicknesses. I am routing …
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