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First day of the show

First day of the show

We drove to the New Jersey show from Greenwich early this morning and at noon I was ready for my first demonstration, which went well considering it was the first of the day. It’s always a psychological challenge in the first hour of a show because you never quite

A great day's work and future

A great day's work and future

I try to imagine what it must be like to go to a staff training day at Walmart, and then I stop myself from going down that road. Can you call what we did today staff training? I don't think so. We worked throughout the day truing plane

Buy this as a saw kit

Update July 2021: Please note the website linked in this blog is no longer active. http://www.traditionalwoodworker.com/Tenon-Saw-Spear-Jackson-Traditional-10/productinfo/794-9540B/ Hello everyone, This is more just a thought really. A few years ago I bought the saw above. I am including the description to take the description point

Conveyor belts

An English robin greeted me with a distinctive song as I loaded the car with my luggage. Pitch black tough it was, the streetlights gave the illusion of dawn to this lovely red-breasted bird. I say English but it’s really European as distinct from the American robin. Two totally

USA visit next week

USA visit next week

I’m looking forward to my return to New York and also the woodworking shows in New Jersey and Virginia. We have some workshop training for the first couple of days and then we will shoot down to Springfield, NJ for the Masterclasses I will be teaching with The Woodworking

Of saws I reflect on

When I took my first saw file to my tenon saw I wasn’t a bit worried about the consequences of my inexperienced efforts. That was back around 1965. My thrusts with the file weren’t as deliberate or straight as they are now. My control was uneven, but the

Plane soles should be mostly flat

Plane soles should be mostly flat

Here is a post I did recently and now want to show you how to do it through a short video. This is not the same plane shown below but it is all the same procedure I use for smoothing planes: https://www.youtube.com/embed/zQyjLV92224 Something I have