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OK. Here I go again! Here is what we are actually admiring.     This Stanley 5061 gauge is the best commercial-grade mass-made gauge that ever entered the woodworking market and if you can’t find one then make yours according to the patterns I gave in the previous blogs. You won’

Ok.Now that you have altered the pin direction you should reshape the stock of the gauge, an irreversible step.   The shape is not really so much symmetrical as simply rounding. The shape is optional but here are my steps, I used a 1" chisel and a coping saw

What kind of plane creates this? It was advertised on eBay last week as a toothing plane, which any woodworker worth half his or her salt will know that it's not. These planes were fairly common in joiner's tool boxes at one time , but as their

Looking at the tools I find they often seem quite ordinary on the web pages, but knowing some history and handling them in daily work often reveals remarkable creativity in those who made them. I left many of my hand tools in the US so that when I return to

Here I tackle another concern about an article about benchtop sanders in Fine Woodworking issue #221 September/October 2011 by Roland Johnson. Right off the bat Johnson states up front in the title that Benchtop sanders "...tackle trimming and smoothing quicker than hand tools do - with no sharpening

Magazine articles that mislead I have tried to work through some issues relating to “freedom of the press” to see if that means licensed to lie or that magazines remain unfettered in terms of truth and content. I have decided to bring balance wherever possible to flamboyant statements that unashamedly