Twas the eve before Christmas, a carpenter put down his tools, swept the shop floor, and placed the tools away for a few days’ rest. His hands, aching more than usual, and his body, seemed more wearied than usual. The loneness of finish, finalising things, no one else can do, rests on his shoulders. Questions...
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. . . ready for the next series on bed making 2023! I’ve been enjoying this project so very much. It was a project I could really sink myself into and for a larger project, it still didn’t take that long. Larger sections of oak were reduced to thin strips and smaller sections. That’s generally...
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I bought two planes last week. One was brand new, the second was secondhand from eBay. The new one came boxed and wrapped in waxed paper while the secondhand one arrived well wrapped in recyclable second- or third-time used box with crumpled newspaper print. Unpacking the new Stanley came from me thinking I should not …
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. . . is in the lives of its maker hosts! Things changed with COVID. Life. No masks now, freedoms back, but something did shift in every culture like a swelling sea that never settled back to the same levels past. We lived through extreme extremes of different kinds with effects that affected all people …
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We have finally caught up on demand from an initial group who said they wanted a router plane kit, and we have a small stock available. If you want a kit rather than building from scratch you can purchase them by following this button: Remember though, we have given you all the details you need …
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Show Notes:
00:00:00 – Getting Started
00:00:35 – Welcome to TWW Live!
00:01:40 – Nicole’s 3D printed phoenix from FlexiFactory
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00:02:27 – Black Friday Guild announcement
00:03:20 – Caleb James’ Danish cord bench project
00:06:05 – Marc’s dining table showcase
00:07:48 – Do you get super protective of your kitchen tables when someone spills something on it?
00:09:30 – New and improved circle templates
00:11:10 – Thank you’s!!!
00:12:13 – How can I lessen the environmental impact my basement shop has on the rest of the house?
00:14:45 – How can I cut small pieces as cleanly and accurately as possible?
00:17:20 – Have you named your lumber?
00:18:20 – Which Bumblechutes product are you currently using?
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00:21:40 – Do you have a digital protractor recommendation?
00:22:20 – Do you have any tips for drying out your whetstones?
00:23:20 – Is there a $50-$100 range solution for a sharpening system?
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00:26:20 – Have you done a review on 10” saw blades?
00:28:45 – Does a dust collection reducers affect the efficiency of the dust collector?
00:30:38 – How can I prevent paint from seeping into the grain?
00:32:30 – Can you tell us a little bit more about the lap joint on your new table?
00:34:18 – Have any experience with the Rikon 10-305 bandsaw?
00:36:05 – Are there show notes anywhere for watching after the fact?
00:37:30 – Are there any benefits to a 12” miter saw over a 10” one?
00:39:40 – Anyone else notice how quickly Missouri passed legalization after Nicole and her pain relief balm moved there?
00:40:00 – What’s your favorite resaw blade?
00:41:18 – Are Friday lives going to be available as audio-only on iTunes?
00:43:10 – Who’s better? Norm Abram or Tom Silva?
00:43:42 – Will you be doing a refurbishing of your chairs?
00:45:23 – Can you provide any insight to contractor saws?
00:46:20 – What part of Missouri are you in?
00:47:40 – Do you use a gauge to set the tension of your bandsaw blade?
00:49:05 – Who’s better? Matt or Shannon?
00:49:54 – Are you still keeping buckets outside?
00:50:53 – Future reference, scalloped blades work great for cutting cardboard on the band saw
00:51:08 – How many times a day do you drive between the house and the shop?
00:51:42 – Why is there a character limitation on questions to ask?
00:54:40 – Any new tool purchases?
00:55:07 – Is walnut cheaper where you are?
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Something that I think is important to new woodworkers is understanding their wood and learning about the species they work with early on in their woodworking. For the general carpenter working in construction, he will generally be working with softwoods like pine and fir, spruce and such. Trim moulding modular homes mass made in factories …
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When I had hoards of school children come to visit me in my workshop, 7-10 year-olds, several days a week, I developed many ways to show how tools worked on wood to true and trim, smooth and shape. We counted saw strokes together and felt the wood fibres before and after planing and sawing. If …
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The steeper the bevel is on a plane or chisel the more resilient the cutting edge will be but depending on how you use the blade will affect how it feels in the wood. Bevel down and with the blade elevated as in a bevel-down plane will make no difference. Bevel up, as in bevel-up …
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A few months ago I decided to take rust prevention a little more seriously since I was gearing up for a move to a humid climate. The product I applied was Carbon Coat from Carbon Method and it’s a thin protective graphene coating that is supposed to do a great job of preventing rust. Here’s a link to that video if you want to catch up: We Moved!
In that video I promised to report back on the condition of my table saw after the move. Unfortunately, the results were not as clear-cut as I expected. I had to do some additional research and experimentation in order to provide you guys with an honest and informative update. So here we are.
When I brought my saw into the shop in August, I immediately noticed a bunch of tiny rust spots all over the table stop. I couldn’t help but ask myself if I had screwed up, on multiple fronts. Did I apply the product incorrectly? Did the product fail to work? Did I put my foot in my mouth by agreeing to report back on this new product? The only way to get to the bottom of this was to contact the company and do some additional research and experiments of my own.
Be sure to watch the video for the full explanation, but let me sum up here. Depending on the water source, standing water may still cause rust to form on a cast iron surface that has been coated with Carbon Coat. My testing, however, showed Carbon Coat to be the most effective at protecting metal from ambient humidity when compared to wax and Boeshield T9. So you can bet I’ll be using this product on all of my cast iron surfaces as a form of rust prevention.
To learn more about Carbon Coat and the other products made by Carbon Method, go here.
If you want to get the pre-order special price on Caleb James’ Danish Cord Bench project: go here.
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Was it cost-effective to reharden the plane iron after its many years of service? Of course, it was! Of course, it wasn’t. What made it well worth it is nothing to do with a financial cost but something I see as an intrinsic yet immeasurable value I consider imprinting yourself into an object you have …
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It’s been a while! We’re finally getting settled here in Missouri and although the shop isn’t making sawdust yet, Nicole and I are excited to see your beautiful virtual faces. So we’re doing an old-fashioned Morning Show featuring your questions and a boatload of bad jokes, Missouri style! So grab your favorite beverage and join us!
Show Notes:
00:00:00 – Marc in a Fireman’s hat
00:00:24 – Welcome back to TWW Live!
00:02:29 – Viewer Small Shop tour is out!
00:03:00 – Wood Whisperer sale
00:04:05 – Thank yous! Alfie Shine Polishing Kit, Coffey Custom Builds and Sure Shot Sids BBQ Seasoning
00:09:28 – What general area of Missouri did you move to?
00:10:27 – Is a used Festool CMS worth it as a secondary router table? We have a video for that! :)
00:12:55 – Is TWW Live back?!
00:13:50 – How do you finish a tabletop without denting it with painters’ pyramids?
00:15:05 – Special guest!
00:15:27 – Do you have a favorite high-end router table system?
00:16:42 – Did you finish Nicole’s office?
00:17:25 – I vote for community events at the Firehouse with Marc’s BBQ!
00:18:12 – Have you done grain fillers with hard wax oils? Timbermate or AquaCoat
00:20:05 – What are your thoughts on using two-part resin on an outdoor table?
00:21:55 – Anything you would have done differently during the move?
00:23:45 – What’s the thickest you would go for a shop-made veneer?
00:25:05 – What’s the most recent woodworking thing you learned?
00:26:25 – Did Ryan Reynold’s ever receive the Deadpool bandsaw box?
00:28:33 – Where are the 3D printers going?
00:29:35 – How about quarterly live shows?
00:30:38 – What’s your favorite style of BBQ?
00:31:24 – Any plans for local meetups?
00:32:38 – How does Rubio look on cherry?
00:34:55 – Can we just come and bring you BBQ and do mini open houses?
00:36:05 – Have you picked a lumber yard yet?
00:37:48 – What’s a good alternative to baltic birch plywood?
00:38:50 – Where’s Deadpool?
00:39:30 – Will Jason be the new “beginner” in the beginner woodworker series?
00:40:00 – How will filming be with a new assembly area to film?
00:40:25 – Any word on the vermiculite?
00:42:00 – Welcome to Missouri!!!
00:42:15 – Do you 3D print quilts?
00:42:25 – Can you store the Bessy clamps clamp end down?
00:44:20 – Do you expect to change wood species in your new location?
00:44:45 – What’s the project you’re most excited about for the new shop?
00:46:10 – What’s the best way to sand end grain without rounding the edges over?
00:47:55 – Is there a Midwest native wood you’re looking forward to working with most?
00:48:50 – What’s something you’re looking forward to now that you have more space?
00:50:55 – Do you have any recommendations for some Greene and Greene or Stickley books?
00:52:04 – Why does pressure-treated wood look different on video than the ones I see in the store?
00:52:55 – Are you considering a Shaper Origin? Marc used it on his Hybrid Workbench
00:54:30 – Do you know if there’s a variable speed replacement part for my router?
00:55:20 – Loved your video on the California Air Compressor!
00:56:55 – Have you considered a false floor to run power and dust collection underneath?
00:59:00 – Do you have 3-phase power in the shop?
01:00:30 – How come you didn’t treat the floor before moving tools into the shop?
01:03:50 – Watch out for brown recluses…
01:05:45 – Are you going to do a dricore video?
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I occasionally need to draw arcs and large circles that exceed the capacity of my Accuscribe scribing tool (https://amzn.to/3SQfJjM). It’s pretty trivial to create a makeshift beam compass using shop scraps and a pencil but I thought it would be fun to go all out and make an heirloom-quality beam compass from walnut and aluminum.
I don’t work with metal all that often so this was a bit outside of my comfort zone, but it was fun nonetheless.
Click here to download my working SketchUp file for this project
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I will start this blog by saying I am a full-time woodworker and that necessitates much part-time metalworking for several good reasons. This extension from my last blog is to bring you up to date on taking charge of to-soon-dulling plane irons be they new or old and described as ‘vintage’ on eBay to give …
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Actually, they mostly remain the same as when they were first made, hardened and tempered at the business end. Moving along from hardened steel at the first inch of the cutting end to the softer metal further away inevitably results in reaching soft and unhardened steel. Moving up the steel an inch or so from …
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Special thanks to American Green Lights for supplying us with LED light fixtures. Check them out at https://ift.tt/GYOwNc9.
While the conversion of this firehouse to a wood shop is far from complete, we’re finally at a point where we can turn our attention back to building furniture. In this video we’re installing T1-11 on the walls, hanging cabinets, tools, and clamps, and installing new LED light fixtures.
The lights we chose are SL-4L-144W-50 from American Green Lights. 4FT Fixtures/ 144 watts/ 5000 k
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Someone asked if, “…Paul ever cuts any of his tenons to fit directly from the saw?” and I do, if or when I want to. Yesterday I did a couple like that out of the sixteen that I did cut and fit in reasonably quick succession. But when I cut several tenons of the same …
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What’s an arris anyway? Some new to woodworking might be asking this to themselves and it’s a fair enough question simply because what’s common enough vernacular in our wonder-filled woodworking world is not common in the great big world beyond our workshop doors. I just asked two people working in the office what an arris …
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I see things I consider silly in woodworking magazines so a few years ago I felt it best for me to stop frustrating myself by reading them. I’m doing pretty well with it but sometimes I glimpse wonderment on pages somewhere and I become bemused by this or that. In recent editions, something new but …
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It’s Katrina (Paul’s daughter in law). The builders have just finished a pretty extensive remodel, including loft conversion, of the upstairs of Sellers Home, Paul’s home in Oxfordshire, UK. Paul has been making all the furniture for his house and he is about to do the same for the bedrooms. You can watch along on …
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There was never any doubt in my mind as to the respect our Queen Elizabeth II had for her people. In these past ten days of mourning I have seen that respect reflected back to her in the faces of the people she served so loyally. Respect takes many forms. The root of the word …
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Woodworkers love shop tours! Even if the person’s shop is nothing like yours, there’s almost always a slick storage or organization idea you can borrow and apply to your own creative space. And for many woodworkers, the shop itself is a lifelong project that’s always evolving and improving in hopes of better efficiency.
Today we’re taking a look at three shops that I’m classifying as “small.” See how Kris, Ben, and Eric organize their shops for the most efficiency possible and without breaking the bank.
Can’t get enough Shop Tours? Check out our Community Shop Tour Archive.
Want to see some of my past Shop Tours? Check out this playlist.
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Woven throughout woodworking there are the rights and wrongs to the way we work wood that defy being written down and yet the information would be very helpful. Read any book on woodworking and no one wrote about the direction of the grain when cutting dovetails. It’s a foregone conclusion that they go at the …
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There are dos and don’ts in all things life, rules to adhere to and rules to question. What not to do in woodworking is sometimes less obvious and often not clear at all. Questioning authority is less to do with questioning the true or lawful authority and more to do with considering the validity of …
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Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s monarch for the past 70 years, died peacefully this afternoon aged 96. Such a sad loss for us all.
Read the full post The Passing of a Remarkable Woman on Paul Sellers' Blog.
The result of me showing the difference between a newly arrived gents saw and then one touched up with a half stroke from a fine saw file to each gullet met mostly with wonder and hope from 98% of those following to learn and better understand. Then there’s a cluster of bitter retorts and mocking …
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During the demotion, we ran into some scary mystery dust. What is it and why is it in every damn wall?! We then moved onto the kitchen remodel and things are looking up! We finally have a safe and comfortable place to have lunch.
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. . . you might just miss it! I can’t even begin to tell you how many pieces Hannah makes in her workspace here at the shop. It always includes presents for friends and family, anything from turned bowls to carved dishes engraved with the names of bride and groom. Or it could be a …
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. . . the summer heat beat down and the earth beat back up. August, September, where the sun beats down heavily with increasing power and from the weeks and months before the earth radiates relentlessly back long after the day’s end. Relief comes only beneath the live oak’s outspread umbrella and from floating the …
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When we moved into our new house, one of the first things I noticed was the built-in in the family room. Older built-ins were often constructed as entertainment centers for CRT televisions which were very heavy and usually topped out at about 36″. These days, TVs are so cheap and so big that they tend to look odd (to my eye) sitting in an entertainment center that was built for the TVs of the previous generation. That was the case in our new house so I decided to do something about it. A fairly simple modification to the partitions and shelves would open up the space and allow me to fill it with some delectable 4K goodness. The project was a little more involved than I originally expected and the situation was complicated by the fact that all of my tools are still packed away, but I was able to get to the finish line in one day. And while you might think this is something I did for my own selfish reasons, I actually did it for my kids. ;)
Looking for the multi-tool I used in this video? Go here!
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I have a few different quick-release (QR) vises installed on workbenches here at the workshops. Eleven workbenches replete with 9″ wide vises opening to between 11-15″ in all. Through the years the old Record vises have all worked to a consistently high standard alongside my many Wodens and a really nice Paramo No51 on Hannah’s …
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I have shared it before but this time I filmed it to show what to do when the grain rises against you no matter the wood. AT least give it a shot, set the plane fine, make sure you are sharp; it will not correct bad and lazy workmanship. Here is the link to watch …
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Elliptical Tables and More They might look the same but they’re not, not quite anyway. When I made the small tables for the living room of Sellers’ Home I experimented a little and made several shapes going from square to rectangular, octagonal and elliptical. At the experiment stage, developmental really, I left out the option …
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This was one of my favorite projects of the year. It’s a small cabinet intended to go beneath a wall-mounted television in my mom’s house. Made from Sapele, Ambrosia Maple, and Ebony, it’s full of woodworking challenges and design elements. If you want the full course and plans, head to the Guild.
Looking for that knife hinge tutorial? Go here!
How to Apply Rubio to Furniture
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. . . it takes 57 years to perfect a dovetail. Of course, it doesn’t take anywhere near 1% of that. I sometimes post a video or a picture showing a perfect joint I just made, a dovetail, a mortise and tenon, or a saw sliding and gliding effortlessly through the wood in perfect alignment. …
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It happened in a flash The grain crunched, concertinaed into a cram-jammed throat so tight it jarred me. Would it happen with a heavyweight? Some other make? A bevel up? York-pitch-frogged version? Most likely one and maybe not the other but then no one predicts its happening in time to change plane type to avoid …
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I contracted COVID sometime around 27 July 2022. From where I have no way of knowing. Over the previous week, I had travelled to Vienna and Saltzburg, eaten in restaurants and did the usual touristy things there as well as my usual inquiries into things wood culture and so on. For four days after my …
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It does seem that those new to woodworking are a little intimidated by the thought of making the workbench they need yet they definitely need it to get started. My workbench is a dead simple workbench to make. I designed it in the face of the massive behemoths woodworkers in lofty realms seem ever-wont to …
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I bought my first square, a combination square, in 1965, 90 or so years after Laroy S Starrett invented the tool for engineering machinists. My combination square was made by Rabone Chesterman here in England. I still have it, use it daily, and it is still fully working and accurate despite its daily use of …
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Think you know the best food safe finish? Think again! I tested a few of the most common food safe finishes and you might be surprised at the results. While mineral is the classic go-to food safe finish, I think it’s time we crown a new food safe king, and that’s Tung Oil.
Stuff used in the video:
Don’t feel like mixing your own Tung Oil/Citrus Solvent mixture? Try Half & Half from Real Milk Paint Company.
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The move from Denver to Missouri happened, but not the way I had planned. Thankfully Mom was there to back me up and everything eventually made it to our new home in Missouri. My tools are stuffed in a detached garage and the commercial shop space is still in process. I’ll keep you posted as that situation develops.
Since I’m moving from one of the driest cities in the country to one of the more humid cities, I needed to finally take rust prevention seriously. I came across a cool product called Carbon Method and I’m hoping this will be a game-changer for rust prevention. It works by coating the surface with a single layer of graphite, providing a slick surface that’s protected from rush for months at a time. Does it work as well as they say? Let’s find out together! Check them out at CarbonMethod.com. To reiterate what I said in the video, I purchased this product with my own money. After talking with the owner, we decided to run an ad together with the caveat being I’d report back in a few months after my tools were exposed to high humidity.
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Making small and simple woodworking projects can sometimes take as much time to make as something big. In my workshop, the designs are never designed and thereby governed by whether it can be geared up for being made using machines, handheld or freestanding, both, I never think in those realms anymore although at one time, …
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My task in reviewing issues woodworking is mostly met very favourably. There is more to my reviewing things than simply looking at things critically, that’s less than helpful, searching through texts for truth though often reveals the attitudes of makers as much by what they miss out as what they say. I think it’s true …
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I’ve written about marking gauges from time to time. It’s a general term, marking gauge, and includes the various mortise gauges, combination gauges and the marking gauge singular with its lone pin. Through the years the single pin has generally been called the marking gauge and twin-pinned gauges with one fixed pin and the other …
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. . . depends on your regularity. It’s often a regularity that woodworkers most generally neglect. In fact, tool sharpness reflects who you are. As an apprentice, George said sharply across the bench, “Sharpen up and don’t be lazy!” As an adult, such things are unsaid to you. Or are they? Does not a still …
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I remember Mr Cheapy arriving in his blue minivan, and I mean the true Mini minivan–two seats in the front, touching both door windows with your shoulders, and the meter behind being a flat-floored, tin-sided van with no frills, padding or anything else. It was always loaded with tools, many seconds quality with minor defects …
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In my other real garage workshop, the one at Sellers’ home, I found myself fighting several issues surrounding systemic dampness permeating everything from the single-skin brick walls to concrete floors with no damp proof membrane, a bad drainage system that simply stopped at ground level and the internal level of the garage floor being at …
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“Boy!” Jack Collins shouted from his bench at the far end of the shop. I sprang to a run from a gentle saunter and George’s, “Woohoo!” encouraged me to ‘Go quick‘. “Clean up!” His arm’s wide sweep meant the whole shop needed the shavings swept up, bagged and then burned. I was glad it was …
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Below are the only tools I used for making the furniture pieces for Sellers’ Home. I am putting this list in one place with some minor explanations for everyone to consider how my work continues to reach and influence woodworkers around the world. The important thing for me has been to show how an ordinary …
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Knife Hinges can be intimidating at first glance but if you take a systematic approach to installing them, it’s a breeze. And your results will be predictable and perfect every time.
Looking for the best hinges for your project? Check out Brusso!
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Walnut I looked after I planed. Glimpsed first. Stopped. Looked again as if looking back at what caught my eye, stopped me in my tracks. And lifted the wood closer to look inside the pores I’d just opened with my plane’s last stroke to where no man had ever seen before, been before and I …
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Door handle, tool handle, handling a workload and even your handle as in the name you go by all link to the human hand with which we grip, hold, seize, snatch and grab. Thimble came from the word thumb and spindle from the word spin. In our work as makers of furniture and woodenware or …
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His hands were as big as he was tall “Plates of meat!” the other men called ‘em. They swallowed the plane handle inside those mits and I defied any grain or knot to answer back when he swiped it along the length and breadth of an ugly board of wood beit oak, walnut, cherry or …
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Over the years I have seen how rehandling existing handles can markedly improve the efficiency and energy of hand tools and customising them reduces the energy it takes to use them. The ultra-inexpensive Spear & Jackson 9500R traditional skew back panel saw, 22″ x 10pts costing £16 with free delivery via Amazon.co.uk is the most …
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It takes about half an hour to reshape a chisel handle of the type I have been using for the past years. The ones I am using and changing here I have only been using for about a year but they are identical to my twelve-year-old Aldi chisels you seem unable to buy any more; …
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The Summer Sale has begun in the Wood Whisperer Guild and that means it’s time to save…..wait for it…..50%!!! Use the code SUMMERFUN at checkout. Limit two projects per customer. The sale ends Sunday, June 5th!
*The sale does not combine with other offers and excludes courses that were released this year (2022) including the Littleton Console, SketchUp: Beyond the Basics, Kumiko Lamp, and the Traveling Anarchist’s Tool Chest.*
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