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Can You Carve Spoons from Mesquite?

Can You Carve Spoons from Mesquite?

Indeed you can. Someone wrote and asked this question. You can carve spoons and a whole lot more using mesquite. I have made hundreds of items and furniture pieces using this unbelievable wood but it's not easy. For spoons there is no problem at all though. Mesquite is

British Woodworking - A Mag Going Monthly

British Woodworking - A Mag Going Monthly

I am generally reluctant to endorse a particular magazine but this time I think I'll go out on a limb a bit. It's only a few years ago since Nick Gibbs took a stand at the North of England Woodworking Show in Harrogate for the first

Crown Tenon Saw a Good Buy

Crown Tenon Saw a Good Buy

I picked up a Crown tenon saw last week and had a chat with the sales staff because Crown have been distributing tools made in and around Sheffield for a long time. I actually bought a set of their chisels from Woodcraft a decade or more ago and I was

Making a Curve-soled Plane - The Cutting Iron

Making a Curve-soled Plane - The Cutting Iron

Making the cutting iron. I bought a piece of O1 flat-stock 3.5mm (1/8”) X 38mm (1 1/2”) X 460mm (18”). these sizes correspond to imperial conversion. 4mm x 40mm x 460mm may be a near alternative in metric availability. This is a common high carbon steel used

A New Bench Stool Video for Benchwork

A New Bench Stool Video for Benchwork

Our New Video Series is Up! I wanted to update you on our new and latest training videos that teach you to make workbench stool and bar stools. This is a series I know you will enjoy and having a bench stool instead of a bar stool means comfort you

My Creative Workspace Works

My Creative Workspace Works

I Coined the Phrase 'My Creative Workspace' for a reason. I felt that because of machine industry giants and the machine-only culture invading our lives over several decades, we lost the significance of an inner eco-climate environmentally dedicated to hand work and hand tool methods. We indeed lost

Making a Curve-soled Plane – Refinements and Fitting

Making a Curve-soled Plane – Refinements and Fitting

Refining and fitting next. Please don't think that this plane is difficult and complicated to make. It's not. Curve-soled, round-soled, straight-soled and hollow-soled planes all come via the same patterns for making and so too low-angled planes, high-angled planes and even toothing planes. I think that