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I decided to start a new website for the Hand Plane information I’ve gathered over the years. Comments and suggestions welcome. I’m not much of a w...

I learned a valuable lesson tonight. I learned how to quickly make a sliding tray with finger joints and a floating poplar bottom to the wrong dime...

Last night, I made great progress with the toolbox. I installed two cherry vertical members with a mortise/tenon in the bottom and dadoes on the si...

Diane Keaton to Al Pacino in The Godfather II. I will preface the next part by saying ’It’s not all fun and games in the workshop’ “At this moment ...

I forgot to put my cuts in the drawer foundation assemblies for vertical strength and drawer division. I’ll do that with a Zonas saw and a chisel. ...

Back in the winter of 2013, my dad told me to come get his shop tools. He’s retired once and then started back, and now he’s fully retired. Anyhow,...

I totally agree with this rule.. Too many people take advantage on other sites.. by posting daily blogs with no other purpose than to promote their...

Two years ago our glass patio table broke; last year, we did without a patio table; this year I want one again and so I started checking out the fl...

I’m sure this is nothing new for most but I figured I’d share for that one guy that might not know about it. I have neither money nor room for a re...

I’ve completed enough projects to where friends are asking for specific work. Many of these have been relatively straight-forward case-work – blank...

This is an ebay find. I took a chance thinking it might be a type 1. This time it paid off. The before: And the now: It’s complete and all look par...

I’m making interior doors for my house and the backward way I was cutting tenons was tedious and the result was functional but not very clean (thin...