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Update on My New Book

Update on My New Book

It's the close of the year and many of you have faithfully asked about my new book Essential Woodworking Hand Tools. In these closing weeks I did what I do in finishing off my furniture pieces just before delivery. I leave the piece to stand a day or

Use for round-bottomed planes

Use for round-bottomed planes

Question: Paul, I was hoping you would explain why that (nice) little plane was rounded in both ways. I inherited an ancient plane from my grandparents with the same rounding both ways, but bigger than the one you made. I haven’t been able to figure out what this plane

Credit cards in business

Credit cards in small craft businesses can be problematic without good credit. Trying to answer the question regarding the struggles of starting out and being in business raised some issues surrounding developing a credit record and using credit and credit cards. Some say credit is useful for the unforeseen and

An Answer for Today

An Answer for Today

First off I didn't want to edit this letter down because of the individuality it expresses. So it's long and worth reading. Hi Paul, I just turned eighteen, and for just over a year now I have been working on woodworking with mostly, if not only

Happy Christmas Everyone!

Happy Christmas Everyone!

Have a lovely holiday my friends, no matter where you are. You are all so very special. Love and special peace from my family to yours and if you are on your own, know that you are included here.

Coves cut by plane work

Coves cut by plane work

Creating the profiled coving in a hard and dense-grained hardwood like sapele is more problematic than say oak, or walnut, cherry and maple, simply because the grain direction alternates every half inch but it looks so beautiful. In a darker time of my life I would do these things with

Not everyone understands

Not everyone understands

Yesterday the work was hard, filled with awkwardness, and I wrestled with the complexities time and again. That's how beautiful things come to life. I made a plane years ago to create beauty with. I shaped its body of wood and then took steel for the blade and