Hand Tools Adventure

From 2014 This new project is an experiment in many ways. It is my first real venture into hand tools as the main instruments of destruction. It...

So it turns out that the historically correct way to make a marquetry covered box is with full blind dovetails. OK I'm a good sport. How hard can...

When I ended the last segment I had just tried out the router plane. It needed a little tuning so the next day I honed and adjusted it a little and...

With the grooves made and the bottom fitted (1/4" plywood hammer veneered on both sides) the next job was to make the interlocking rebates for the ...

With the hinge out of the way, one of the tricky fits is history but getting all the corners to match is another thing altogether. The marquetry wa...

This is a bit anticlimactic after the project has been posted but I wanted to keep the "plane box" thing a secret. There were however some cool han...