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It shouldn't surprise me how often I see someone check an internal corner for square using a basic 12" square or worse still a speed square, but it's not something to rely on most of the time. Even carpenters do it and whereas today they

Taking twist, cup and bow out of rough-sawn stock and making it flat is a simple enough machining process provided you own the machine/s, the extraction system and the place to permanently house everything indoors. To tackle it correctly you need either two planers or a combination under and

I don't think that we should ever lose sight of some basic but very interesting realities with regard to the craft of hand-making furniture and other woodwork. How often do we fail to understand that the joints we use today have been with us for centuries and that

It's a fallacy to think that we can constrain wood indefinitely by weighting during drying but it is done in the industry. Sticker the boards and beams to allow air or steam circulation between the layers and the weight keeps the boards from over distorting. The wood comes

'The taming of the skew' was once the title of an article or two written by a famed woodturner of the day three-plus decades ago. It related to his explanation of working with the skew chisel in woodturning. This man's experience was from working as a

It's Katrina (Paul's daughter in law). The builders have just finished a pretty extensive remodel, including loft conversion, of the upstairs of Sellers Home, Paul's home in Oxfordshire, UK. Paul has been making all the furniture for his house and he is about to