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Boys and Girls,                                                                                                       Chose to cannibalise some thr...

Boys and Girls,                                                                                                       Armed with some freshly cut r...

Just a short entry, maybe almost just an addendum…. I swapped out the table top on the Auxilary bench for a 2’x4’x3/4” thick chipboard covered wit...

Back in 2013 on another site I wrote a blog series documenting my journey restoring a load of 19th and 20th century saws. I'm not going to move all...

Boys and Girls, Previously published at LJ on 29th. May,2019 after being inspired by another blog.  I eagerly started up a series labelled “Safe...

First, I'll toss this in here. I should have included it with the other wood pieces in the last entry but I forgot. I kept the original Rosewood pi...

I didn't have a lot of time to spend with the #45 this weekend but I did carve out a couple of hours to make a new tote and handle [Image] The orig...

KelleyCrafts suggested that maybe this plane would look good if it were blued. I thought that was a great idea! Blued steel looks nice usually and ...

I thought I'd mix it up a bit in this part of the blog and record a video where I: • Discuss what to look for when you pick up a secondhand brace a...

In this episode I wanted to look at using a hand brace and explore some of the so called hints and tips out there to see if they really are useful....

I know I said that sharpening an auger bit would be part 8 of this blog series, but I've taken the liberty of bringing it forward since the 'Using ...

During the restoration of RUSTY in Parts 1 to 4, I showed how to fix a couple of common problems. The first was scoring on the outside of the jaws ...