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A BIG AND HEARTY BENCH-HEIGHT THANK YOU ALL!!!

A BIG AND HEARTY BENCH-HEIGHT THANK YOU ALL!!!

I can't believe the response to the bench height survey and i hope that it is not yet over. There are some very conclusive proofs in this and I am working toward the conclusion that will save many backs and eyes and necks and head aches (two words)

A New Dawn in Working Wood

A New Dawn in Working Wood

Today we start a three-day preparation course that prepares the students for a month of intensive woodworking; mostly furniture making because we make three major projects. Some of the attendees I know, but some I have not met, but the word attendee will soon change to friends and woodworking furniture

On planes we need

On planes we need

Last week I blogged on planes and the new choices we now see being developed month by month on multiple levels. Whereas at one time new planes were thought up and developed to take care of an emerging need; to say form rabbets and grooves or tooth surfaces for veneering

Which plane--Bevel-up First or Bevel-down?

Which plane--Bevel-up First or Bevel-down?

Paul, As I said, I have been reading all your entries and am through September 2012 and also read all your entries about buying good inexpensive tools, the 20 part series. I am a fairly new woodworker and am gathering all the tools that I need (non power). I bought

Higher benches is best?

Higher benches is best?

I think we are making headway I haven't definitively concluded findings on the bench height issue yet and I am relying on more contributors over the next few weeks, but it does seem highly likely that we have been misinformed and misled as to bench heights for some

Jury still out on bench heights

Jury still out on bench heights

From the populous comes more and more information leading to better understanding and greater levels of actual reality. Now that we have passed the 100 mark I would like to press anyone who didnt submit their details to help us with the survey toward better understanding of bench heights to

Changing Lives Through Hand Work

Changing Lives Through Hand Work

I believe life has many rhythmic pulses beneficial to our wellbeing but we seldom hear and feel what I speak of because we are so enveloped in noise we often have little control of and cannot turn the volume down or even off. The reality is that we often don&