Herein you will find my rambling wisdom about woodworking, life, critters and plants. As well as my rants and pet peaves.
While reading, keep in mind that my wife (Dr Dr, yup she has 2 Dr’s degrees) knows everything, and I know all of the rest.
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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……
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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…
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Tools of the trade 05 Hatchets
The word “Hatchet” itself has an interesting etymology. It comes from an old French word “to…
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Tools of the Trade 04 the Brake
A brake (or riving brake) is used in conjunction with the froe so I thought it…
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Tools of the Trade 03 the Froe
30 years ago you couldn’t buy a new froe, no one made them. You could find…
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Tools of the trade: oops I forgot wedges and gluts
As you’ve seen I’m re-posting my old “Tools of the Trade” series where I introduce most…
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Tools of the trade 02 the Hacking Stock
Ok, so not everyone calls it that, chopping block, stump etc. After you have split your…
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Tools of the Trade 14; Sharpening Stones
Sharpening stones, aka Honing stones, are rocks (manmade or natural) that we use to put a…
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Tools of the Trade, 01: the Shaving Horse
Re-editing and re-posting this series, it was taken down when the site was renewed With this…
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Lessons
During the previous years I’ve covered a lot of information about tools and philosophy and junk.…