I recently needed to route out a 1/4″ stopped dado – I could have chiseled it out, but I recalled seeing Garret Hack make custom scratch stock for edge moulding, and thought I could do the same – but rather than scratch the dado – I could use...
Step one in making a 17th century jointed stool – Take one billet of maple fire wood, rive with a maul and a froe into leg size pieces and then plane square. Next step is to cut...
Now I have the glue on these boards and am ready to drive some brads in and can’t find my hammer. “John, have you got my hammer? I do wish you would try and get some tools of your own; I don’t mind lending mine, but it is such a nuisance and inconvenience to me and...
With most objects that are specifically right-handed and difficult to use left-handed one can usually buy a left handed version (except chain saws, but that’s another story). Scissors, golf clubs and rifles all have a left-handed version. You would think that...
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