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eBay has given us inroads into discovering tools that at one time only came via tool dealers and antique markets. Many tool dealers in the 1970s and 80s advertised in local newspapers for tools to buy and then sell on; they bought chests filled with tools, picked the best from

To read more about choosing a finish on our Common Woodworking site, click here. To read more about what finishes to buy, click here. I didn't recall the finish I applied so I found out and it's not shellac. It's a varnish from the

Update 15 May 2018 4pm GMT I want to apologise for the broad brush I used denouncing educators. I wrongly based my evaluation of teachers on the teachers and lecturers that taught me throughout my teen years who showed little aptitude toward the craft itself even though they were supposedly

Here's something I personally think is well worth shouting about. I've never seen anyone else do it as it's one I thought up more for as another poor man's woodworking tool. It's a scrub plane made from an adapted #78

Who say's that any more anyway? No one, I suppose, but it had depth. It had meaning. It had future and it had hope. It mattered. And guess what? It still has all of these things and it still matters whether we use the term or not! What

I am ready to commission my new workbench and then too at the same time my new garage workshop. A garage without a bench is a lonely place and a bench without a garage is too exposed. Now the two together, that's a perfect combination. Where to start?

I am currently taking possession of my new garage workshop. The brickwork's dried out now and snagging is all done. Having moved shop for the umpteenth time, both on larger and small scale levels, this feels as though it may well be my last  workshop. Since my last