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Finding Your Sense of Completion!

Finding Your Sense of Completion!

Yesterday Phil finished his workbench stool and it looks very nice now he’s done. I was just about to finish the last of five bookshelves as a medley of useful shelves scaleable as options for people to build and John hinged the lid to the tool chest he has

So Many Chisel Choices

So Many Chisel Choices

John bought some chisels from the car boot sale last week. Pennies go a long way in scrap tool bins here and for a pound or two you can walk away with a bag full of tools. There can be no doubt William Marples of old was the single most

John Finds Yet Another Rarity Via eBay

John Finds Yet Another Rarity Via eBay

Both John and Phil have been buying up rarer tool bargains via eBay again. Phil found an R Groves 8” dovetail saw identical to one of mine that he needs to recut teeth in after some poor sharpening by some former owner. He will have an excellent saw when he’

French, Reverse and Split Cleats

French, Reverse and Split Cleats

More Than a Cleat or Just a Cleat? Sometime back, in the canyons of my mind, I said we would do a blog or a video on making a French cleat. Why it’s called a French cleat I doubt anyone knows, but I will hold to the term in

Old Brass Not Nostalgia

Old Brass Not Nostalgia

Some tools mean more to me than others. I do like real brass, folded backs on tenon saws and dovetail saws over steel and none-folded brass backs, composite handles and backs and so on. They pinch the steel plate, you see, and allow 95% resolution to the out-of-straightness issues in

A Working Class Action

A Working Class Action

Jointing the edges for the tabletop using a low angle jointer is a new experience but soon the tabletops were glued up and ready for the last day of the table class tomorrow. Fitting the joints and seating the shoulder lines become a surgical operation. Eventually they fit and fit

Planes Speak for Themselves

Planes Speak for Themselves

Seems to me sometimes that what was once ordinary and common is now more a sort of coffee-obsessing where discussing replaces making and tasting the coffee itself. I think you know the type of thing. Two or three people start talking about their favourite coffee and the conversation heightens in