Hand Tool Woodworking Instruction and Thoughts

RWW 158 Planing in the Dark

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When the time comes to smooth plane your project to prepare it for finish, the best thing you can do

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What is the best way to mill a board using only hand tools? Try sweating on it. There is no secret

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At work I was asked to clean up a piece of vertical grain Douglas Fir to be sent to a client as a sample.

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I got a question from Joe wondering which hand planes would be best to replace a planer and jointer since

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I flattened my workbench top when I finished building it. I touched it up once about a year later because

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So Get Woodworking week is here and I have been saving this post for a while for just such an occasion… Getting

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I have great respect for contractors who do on site work. I would be a terrible contractor. The minute

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I was finish planing some particularly difficult ribbon striped African Mahogany drawer fronts this weekend.

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Here is a quick episode showing how the Scrub plane can be used to quickly trim a board to width. Most