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... A Garden Bench I'm making a garden bench. So far it's taken me a day to cut all the wood, plane it, cut the parts out, joint the 10 2" deep mortise holes and cut and fit each of the tenons. I know! It'

When I think of the many thousands following this blog and the online work we do training through video, I have to say I do feel quite stunned. It's no small thing that Joseph and I have brought about a training and teaching program for woodworkers and furniture

There are some things to explain:Is Paul just trying to be different? Is he bending to pressures? Bending the rules? Well, no, I've never really bent to pressure unless I found myself flat wrong and I don't do things just to please others either. My

My choice of hand plane is the Stanley (or Record, either way, or the Woden too) #4 for 95% of my tasks at the workbench this basic plane works best for me. New, old, no matter. I also use the Stanley #5 as a second if indeed I do feel

...and then you are the same. It's not a look alike thing, more a feel alike. But it doesn't destroy your uniqueness. Amateur woodworking and its woodworkers is not at all a new thing. In times past most men did woodworking in support of their daily