Hand Tools
Flip Your Honing Guide to Back-Bevel Your Plane Irons
You can get a repeatable back bevel on a hand-tool blade by simply flipping the honing guide and riding its top edges.
Category: Hand Tools
Explore woodworking hand tools, including saws, planes, chisels, and measuring tools, along with their uses and care.
Furniture
Fundamentals = Foundational
Thinning things down these last few months, probably a year since we decided to build the workshop studio at the end of the garden, didn't yet take care of everything. Currently, much of our equipment, furniture and hand tool gatherings are in a 40-foot container or in
Hand Tools
Modified Skew Chisel: Make It, Use It, and Turn a Christmas Tree & Flower
Modified Skew Chisel: Make It, Use It, and Turn a Christmas Tree & Flower
Hand Tools
Sharpening a Card Scraper
In this video, Mike demonstrates his method for keeping his card scraper in working order.
Carving
From the Archives: Letter Carving Step-by-Step
The art of carving incised lettering is both a valuable skill for professional woodworkers and an instructive practice for beginners.
Hand Tools
Chisels Too Tough to Square?
In 2021 I published my guide for getting the two bevels on narrow plough plane blades dead on 30-degrees and 25-degress and 90-degress dead across too. You read that post here if you're interested. There is also a video on YT here too. Chisels are
Hand Tools
What's Not Known
And I am talking about what woodworkers new to woodworking don't know starting out.I'm not really a hand tool enthusiast, but an enthusiastic maker that works primarily with the hand tools he's worked with for over sixty years and has no plans to