Hand Tool Woodworking Instruction and Thoughts

Hand Planing Secret to Success

What is the best way to mill a board using only hand tools? Try sweating on it. There

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

I got a question from Joe wondering which hand planes would be best to replace a

I flattened my workbench top when I finished building it. I touched it up once about

So Get Woodworking week is here and I have been saving this post for a while for

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

I was finish planing some particularly difficult ribbon striped African Mahogany

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