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...but then there's my gut! Rarely would anyone use hearing as an excuse for planing wood out of square, but I am! Yes, too, I use my sight, even feeling the angle with my fingers. Taste and smell don't come into it. Remember my being the

Now that I have caught everyone up on the essentiality of sharpness, that non-sharpness is never an option, and that sharpening needs to become the rhythmic heartbeat pulsing into and punctuating the work in hand, I want us all to focus on keeping well. The sanity of joinery rests in

One and a half minutes to sharpen a 10" tenon saw, 120 teeth. Phew! But whereas it is not necessary to move fast like that, I want you to know that if you sharpen your wits about sharpening it will become a quick and easy task without fear to

That is the question... A decade ago a student came to my class and in twenty minutes learned how to sharpen edge tools. "That's was so amazing!" He said. I spent a week on a woodworking course for sharpening and you just taught us more in

I think that it is a true thing that we should make a saying of; most of us wait until the tool won't cut well before we decide to sharpen our tools. Pushing dulled tools to the limit is not just pushing the tool to its limit but

There is no prescription for how often a saw goes dull or how often you should need to sharpen this or that saw. Truth is for most of us, in reality, is that we are more likely to sharpen less often than too often. The reason for this is that

I've spoken often on the benefits of physical work over a workout and then too in view of their being more sedentary work than ever in the history of our world. You don't need to go back much more than a century to find 90% of