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You’ll want a couple of in-cannel gouges for your corner blocks, size dependent on the size of violin / viola etc., you’re making. You...

I tend to pad on shellac rather than FP, as that works better for me. I level and polish up afterwards. I've used pumice for pore...

That is fantastic work. Takes me back to my Herefordshire youth, when we were doing that sort of stuff (but for stockproofness, so much...

Recently restored this french clog makers axe from around the late 1800s with a turned handle made from boxwood

The reason that brown Titebond doesn't set in the bottle once opened is that it contains a chemical additive designed to prevent...

I sold an item (a relatively rare bicycle-saddled treadle fretsaw, of US origin) on eBay, and specified ‘UK only’, because I had...

I have had three traumatic incidents in my life: 1. I had a burst appendix that I tried to ignore because I was bloke, a rugby player...

It depends on what you’re doing with it if you want to use the sapwood & bark to give contrast like in the bowl below then you don’t...

Meg Markle was visiting a primary school class. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meaning. The teacher...

I’ve been making furniture professionally for twenty five years with no accidents, until this spring. I had made a cut on the bench...

Correct, it was Dieter Schmid (sic) who replied by return of email to my enquiry about not shipping to the UK.

I quite agree; the hollow grind is a heresy, and should only be necessary after damage to an iron, which shouldn’t happen anyway!