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Well, these tenons are 8" long, 7/8" thick and 11" wide in oak. These are practical steps for low budget making and without table saws and crosscuts or radial arm saws. It took me 13 minutes per side which is less than 1/2 and hour

Well, in answer to questions about which saws to buy, which planes I recommend and a few other such questions, I will try to answer them here. I have used old and modern hand tools for almost five decades. Some that I still use I bought as an apprentice somewhere

Here are the before and after... ...after reshaping, staining and protective coats and a couple of hours serious clean up and degrunging.   How can it be that a plane functions so much more responsively when it's clean, refined and lovely to look at? It's the same

I bought this Record plane in grungy condition to restore. It's 50 years old. All plane handles are too small for my hands. I had to reshape it some. I flattened the sole too. Degreasing took a while. I could tell it was an engineer that owned and

It's raining as I walk home. Cool, Welsh rain. It's not too heavy, but it's close rain that wets thoroughly and the earth soaks the drops in quickly. My cheeks and hands are cold and my hand shields my lens in case I see

More on oak I first worked with red oak in the Texas Hill Country back in 1987. At least that was the first time I knew of red oak as distinct from English oak. Whereas I love English and European oaks American red oak is not my favourite wood to

Oak trees grow on each of the five continents and cultures at every level have relied on the wood and acorn, the tannic acid and the bark throughout the millennia. Great ships with oak bows and rudders crisscrossed the globe.   Oak leaves have a unique and distinctive leaf shape Massive