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What's an arris anyway? Some new to woodworking might be asking this to themselves and it's a fair enough question simply because what's common enough vernacular in our wonder-filled woodworking world is not common in the great big world beyond our workshop doors. I

Most of the time, once you've installed a new bandsaw blade and set it up correctly on the wheels, the bandsaw will just keep running trouble-free with little or no adjustment until the blade wears to dullness and needs replacing again. Unless something happens, it will generally keep

It's a wood you'll never forget, mesquite! More than interesting, more uniquely different. As my handsaw slipped through a cross-gain cut the strong and sweet essence wafted up in a split second and I was translated to a 35,000-acre ranch in south Texas watching a

Sliding in a well-cut slither of wood will work better than wood filler and you are more likely to create a permanent fix with a match to existing wood that will change colour with the surrounding wood if you do use a wood slither. It's not that unusual

There are many options for filling voids and defects, bad joints and more. Do they work? Should we? I think I have invented one or two of my own and then had a thousand recipes from woodworkers telling me what they do to give the impression of a perfect dovetail

I see things I consider silly in woodworking magazines so a few years ago I felt it best for me to stop frustrating myself by reading them. I'm doing pretty well with it but sometimes I glimpse wonderment on pages somewhere and I become bemused by this or

It's hard to say when I started to see certain differences in my world of woodworking from that of others. I think mostly it began in the USA. before I migrated I only knew of what I saw in woodworking magazines, in my own rather isolated world of