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Here is John’s upcycled Ashley Iles 35mm 7-sweep gouge replete with its new beech handle and his retro box is shown below too. Trash to treasure turns the useless to full of use and what one person chunks another knows will last another lifetime. Today I realised a few

Upcycling, Retro, Retrofurbing, Retrofurbish, Shabby chic - What's in a name? Passing by an old handsaw amidst piles of junk is hard spot for me. I glance first at the medallion and that tells me a lot. Without conscious thought I have already judged the plate and so

Whiplash or backlash, these wheels have taken up the slack for over a century and they still work great. I think whiplash is of little if any consequence to woodworkers in working their planes. It never made any difference to me and in reality the Stanley and Records that so

A New Online Series Starts Wednesday We just completed the Bookshelf series last Wednesday and so this week we see a new series for building an oak Sofa/Entryway Table beginning in a couple of days. Thank you everyone for sharing your enjoyment of the last series and all of

Question: Hi Paul, Thank you for taking the time to make your videos, they’re full of great unbiased advice.  I have noticed with some of my older stanley planes that the brass adjustment wheel has a lot of free spin, about 2 revolutions before it starts to adjusting depth.

I worked through school when there were 20 shillings in pound, 12 pennies in a shilling and thereby 240 pennies made a pound. Within that structure we also had farthings, 4 to a penny. half pennies, threepenny bits, sixpenny bits, half crowns and so on. Was it complicated? Not really.

I suppose woodworking once found meaning in making a living but for most woodworkers today it actually means more than that. Whereas in times past woodworking made sense because it supported life and those essentials of life we once really and truly depended on, today it's more about