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About Tenons Paul, I noticed during your bed-build that one of the tenons used had a slant on one side. When does a tenon need to be more than a rectangle in appearance? When is a haunch tenon the best use of a tenon? Lastly when a wide board is

It’s more toward the end of the class that smiles start and faces show more relaxedness - in the last hour or two mostly. Why that is is often hard to explain, but I think, in a nutshell, it’s because we are a little uncertain of ourselves. We

Today I was astounded by a piece of 2” by 4” Scandinavian Redwood I cut for planing practice for the students. Actually, two types of wood. The other being spruce. The thing that struck me was that the 2” x 4” pine had 150 growth rings over 70mm (2 3/

We worked the past two days making and filming the bookshelves ready for the upcoming masterclass series on bookcase construction. It’s a strange world really, when you think about it. 25 years ago what we are doing now didn’t exist because it couldn’t. I would never have

We have just completed the series on making wooden planes; primarily because we needed a special hollowing plane to shape the seat of our last project which was making a customised workbench stool to suit the bench you work at and of course your height for a stool. In the

It's inevitable that after a few weeks of use, especially as much use I give to my vise, that the wooden  jaws themselves become slick and without surface friction the wood being clamped inevitably slips unless you increase torque. I have the bad habit of under clamping not