No Southern-fried Southern boy wants to be called a Yankee, but we share the characteristics of shrewdness and thrift. Thus, each month we include a money-saving tip. It’s OK if you call me “cheap.” Woodworkers spend a good bit of time on their knees. Praying for guidance and safety before each working session in the shop […]
So, you don’t have one of those new battery-powered impact drill-drivers, either, eh? There are some workarounds: 1) You can use the slip clutch built into your drill-driver, which allows an on-off-on-off application of power that will gradually advance the screw you’re driving. 2) There is no substitute for real impact action. An air-driven impact […]
Hand planes work best when they can glide easily across the surface of the wood. Lubricating the plane’s sole can make a dramatic difference in the amount of effort expended in planing. There are several ways to do this. You can make X marks or scribbles on the sole with paraffin, beeswax or candle wax. Or you can […]
Who says you can’t read a good woodworking book on the beach? We asked our bloggers which books they are looking forward to reading this summer, and they provided us with some great answers. See below for Lee Laird’s summer reading list: I have a number of “woodworking” books I’ve added to my bookcase, that I just […]
As usual, I plan to spend a good deal of time reading this summer, the time of year when I tend to do the most of it. And what better subject than woodworking? Here’s what’s on my reading list for this year. Robert Lang’s New Woodworker’s Guide to SketchUp Frankly, this will be more a course of study […]
We asked our bloggers which books they are looking forward to reading this summer, and they provided us with some great answers. Curtis Turner took a different tactic from the others, and told us quite a lot about the book he is most excited to read this summer. Now we are ready to start reading this one […]
We asked our bloggers which books they are looking forward to reading this summer, and they provided us with some great answers. See below for Terry Chapman’s summer reading list: Like many of you, I have a stack of books sitting on the night stand waiting for me this summer. Though I have a Kindle and […]