Hand Tool Woodworking Instruction and Thoughts

RWW 176 Mortises in Thin Stock

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I’m working on a new chisel rack to go in my tool cabinet (the 4th one, more on that later) and

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I’m always looking for shortcuts in my work. Like many of us I started in a power tool centric

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Woodworkers have thousands of little tips and shortcuts bottled up inside their heads. One of the great

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Its no secret I have been playing with foot powered lathes in the last few years. I have been fortunate

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I was looking for a new technique to speed up my through mortises in really hard wood. I bought a few

I’m gearing up for Hand Tool School Semester 5 right now. I built a spring pole lathe about 5 months

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Not that YOU ever make gappy dovetails…but from time to time it happens. The key is not to sweat

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There are many ways to cut a dado using hand tools. In this episode I use a dado saw or stair saw to

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There is a cliche out there about mastery coming not from a lack of mistakes but rather one’s ability