This weekend I had a wonderful opportunity to take a plane making class with Scott Meek of Scott Meek Woodworks. Scott designs and crafts fabulous wooden hand planes and was going to be teaching us his process for making a wooden smoothing plane. We started off the class by going over some differences between wooden […]
I was riding around with a contractor one time and we saw a sign advertising “Ten Famous Nails”. I immediately wondered who would celebrate 8d, 10d, 10d brite finish, double head form nails and all the rest. I could think of many more than ten nails and had a vision of bins full of nails […]
As a woodworker, I’ve found we are often defined as either a “Hand tool” woodworker or a “Power tool” woodworker. There are others, like myself, who straddle the line between the two. These “Hybrid” woodworkers tend to mix the flavors of hand and power tool work for efficient shop time as well as other considerations. […]
The holidays are just around the corner and in our November 2014 issue of Wood News Online, we’ve already got some great holiday projects, gift ideas, and safety tips to help insure this holiday will be a great one! Our holiday-themed articles and specials include: Project Idea: Advent Calendar– Forrest Bonner walks us through the […]
For this month’s Wood News Online we received the following Ask the Staff question from Joe Tomeo: I would like to know if a steel used for knife sharpening is the same tool as a burnisher that is used to sharpen a card scraper? Read our answer in the comments below and feel free to […]
I’ve been doing this whole woodworking thing for a few years now, and if there is one thing I have learned, and seen preached across the woodworking world as a whole, it is that sharp tools are important. If you have ever had the chance to use a really sharp tool versus a really dull […]
Got my new dust mask yesterday. I have not had a chance to really give it a trial yet, but it appears to be a real gem. I used to have a Dustfoe brand mask and I used it so much I actually wore it out. Unfortunately, they quit making them and you can’t buy […]