Questions about Planes?
Questions about Planes…here we go! Hi [David], Thanks for the great emails, they always inspire me to get “furniture making”, hopefully in a year or two’s time when I retire (no I’m not that old only...
View Articlesummer sunburst – woodworking tips
We’re edging closer and closer to the summer so here’s a little woodworking tip from Daren Millman on sunburst veneer selection… They sometimes tell in the books about using mirrors to see what a...
View ArticlePlane Common Sense
I was 10 years old when I picked up my first plane. It was a wooden hand plane in the school workshop, made with an oiled beechwood body. I remember how heavy it was in my puny arms. But most of all I...
View ArticleStraight from the horse’s mouth
Hello David, I am an ex-engineer; 4 year apprenticeship; worked as a toolmaker for 10 years. Why can’t they keep the chisel cool with water to stop it bowing? I used to grind hundreds of punches and...
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