Karl F Newman
Woodworker
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Handcrafted Furniture and various wooden wares made in the Appalachian tradition
Latest Articles
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SCA, pennsic class handout
Karl F Newman Master Cabinetmaker 7/26/2026 A very coarse set of course outlines for medieval-like hand tool woodworking: Some sections are more detailed than others depending upon how much time I took to write them and on how much demonstration is needed to understand them. I hope we all have fun. Karl F. Newman Aka…
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Tools of the trade: 07 The Spokeshave
The Spokeshave is to the drawknife what the hand plane is to an adze or chisel… if you look at the blades of the older spokeshaves they even look like mini-drawknife blades. A light touch holding between the first finger and the thumb and just using the rest of the fingers just touching the handles…
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Tools of the Trade 06 Drawknives
At every step of the work, the more you do with the previous tool the less you do with the next one… the closer you split to the size you want, the less ax work you do, the closer you get with the axe work the less you use the drawknife. and on through most…
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