Part 2 – Using Hand Tools and Traditional methods

Part 2 – Using Hand Tools and Traditional methods

Your tool collection will grow as your experience and needs increase. Well, we have already reached the point where to continue with this project, we need to add a few more ‘necessary tools’, namely a ripsaw, a couple of 610mm bar clamps, a hand drill, a set of brad point bits, a countersink, a flat head screwdriver and a marking gauge.

Plane Stop

The gap stop works very well when planing perpendicularly to the gap stop.  However, any planing at an angle less than 60 to the gap stop (such as when flattening a board), cause the board to slide along the bench. By adding a notch to the top side of the gap stop and...

Future Coffee Table – in the works

I acquired several slabs of Cherry that I thought would make a nice cherry coffee table to replace the one I made a couple of years ago. These slabs are well out of true and need flattening – quite a workout! The plane is a scrub plane –  the surface will...

Article In UK Magazine

If you have been following my woodworking adventures you will have noticed a bit of a hiatus in my posts.  Well there’s a good reason – I have been busy with projects that have taken longer than expected, but more importantly, I was commissioned to write a...
Firewood Project – Part 1

Firewood Project – Part 1

Fortunately the winter ran out before the wood, but it was close! What little wood remains seems silly to stack for next year. I recently finished reading ‘Make a Joint Stool from a Tree’ By Jennie Alexander and Peter Follansbee “When it comes to...