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I was reading a comment in the most recent edition of Bill Goodman's Plane Making from the 1700s book which is now the continued work taken over by Jane Rees under the title 'Goodman's British Planemakers 4th Edition' that intrigued me but left me

I looked back on the different workshops I have worked in since I came back to live and work in the UK. Two things that all have in common are my workbench and my work tools. They've never changed in nigh on 60 years. What I started with

Can a basic plough plane create what you want from your woodworking? A moulding plane, perhaps? A #78 rebate (rabbet) plane, or a side rebate plane? I've been using them alongside machines throughout my life but it was only when I saw how easy machining is in not

When I was a boy, men, being what they are, mocked me when I admired grain, shook the planks of oak to break me from my admiration and shook me back to working. But George stepped in and let me be and took up the slack for me. He knew

Or does it? For many years I have faced it and tried to counter some issues as I came across them if I felt it might be important enough. From laying a plane on its side to workbench work heights, micro-bevels on cutting edges and skewing planes and spokeshaves this

An offcut of quartersawn oak lay at the end of my bench for two weeks and I couldn't throw it away. The angled cut reminded me of the days when my geometry squares were all wood and stamped with the angles and the name Helix in blue. Then

I own many moulding planes but less for use as my primary reason, so much as just having owned them for replicating moulding in my work, restoring pieces and making new. In my view it is still worth owning some well-chosen moulding planes for various profiles we might need and