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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8V3VfmVTp4 I am sometimes told by this owner of a bevel-up plane or that owner of a bevel-downer, the york-pitch advocate and the scraper plane expert that this or that plane takes care of this and that grain, wood type and so it goes.

In my choice of individuality, I mostly engage in lone woodworking. There aren't too many of us out there but for most of my life it wasn't lone but shared space and I worked alongside others capably working and making a living from hand made furniture,

Until you do it you won't understand and it won't be because you don't want to understand or even accept it, it's because you simply can't. It's not unlike using a chisel sharpened to say 250-grit for years

...sometimes. We are all entitled to them but are we really? As we should have learned from my introducing a screw to a dovetail joint hidden beneath a tabletop never to be seen in an oak piece I made. A gazillion comments showed hundreds of erroneous opinions that have been

I developed this strategy to give me repeat cuts from a single guide and I can slide up or down the guide to give me different sizes of dovetails within fractions of a millimetre if I want an alternative size from as little as half a millimetre on half pins

I left early Thursday morning for my two-and-a-half-hour car drive to Cambridge. I'd filled up with petrol the day before and was ready for the drag to my destination. Halfway there you hit a place called Milton Keynes where every half mile or so you hit a roundabout

It's Katrina (Paul's daughter in law). Paul is making all the furniture for his Oxfordshire home. The next area he will be making furniture for is not a room, but a little mezzanine on the landing in the upstairs hall. It’s not a large space