Recent content by rwyoung

Starrett brand tape measures as less expensive (at least in the USA) that you might imagine. http://www.starrett.com/saws/saws-hand- ... tBy=wp/asc I have one of their 12' models for bench work and it is a pleasure to use. The equivalent size in metric would be one of the 3.5m models such...

Reminds me of the vices that Don Williams has been researching: https://www.google.com/search?q=piano-m ... BdoQsAQIOw http://donsbarn.com/searching-for-studl ... land-2013/

Yes. This is Wilber's sense of humor. To further fan the flames, here's an old post he made about the cost of new premium manufacture hand tools. http://giantcypress.net/post/1487152382 ... -hand-tool Vimeo direct link https://vimeo.com/35420975 However something seems to be funny at Vimeo...

Pre-order purchase price -- USA delivery $24USD for premier issue. http://www.mortiseandtenonmag.com/purchase.html Scroll down and Joshua does had a list of stockists: Australia: The Wood Works - Taking Pre-orders Rundell and Rundell Canada: Lee Valley - Taking Orders soon The Unplugged...

What?!? Absorb information from multiple sources? Why next you will be advocating that people actually experiment for themselves and learn something. Madness!

Planecraft is a good alternative if you want to learn about many different types.

Thinking some more about the face side / show side, if one was to make something with flush aprons such as anything "Chipendale" or "Queen Anne" it would be advantageous to have the face side of the legs to the INSIDE when marking out. Likewise the aprons (but maybe less so). Then when it...

The original postscripted question was asking for an example where the true face was the same as the show face (i.e. on the outside) and the recent discussion of The Essential Woodworker put W.R.'s terminology and this marking out example to mind. Yes, to have a square table, one needs...

In "The Essential Woodworker", R.W. makes it a point to call it the "true face" to distinguish it from a "show face" or "show surface". Same goes for "true edge". I think this terminology eliminates most of the confusion about the purpose of the edge/face. Later in illustrations showing how...

Flat bottom shaves, they make the convex curves go round.

The Donegan OptiVisor is a very good choice. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_ ... Caps%2C169 Lots of different focal length and magnification choices. My link above is for the Amazon USA (by the way, the OptiVisor is manufactured just up the road from me, next town over). Not sure...

Thank you. The bandages and bottle of Ibuprofen (Vitamin I) were from when my local woodworking guild (Kansas City Woodworkers' Guild) hosted Chris Schwarz for a weekend of building the Dutch Tool chests. The Spiderman bandages were for if participants did something epic. The Hello Kitty...

Not the greatest photos, but you can sort of see the hinge vs. the hasp in this one: And another shot where you can see a bit of the hinge: Here's a second shot of the heart-shape strap hinge in use on a 6-board chest (apologies for funny color shift, never bothered to do a color correction)

I can't give you a source of hinges in the UK but if you are willing to pursue the possibility of shipping from the USA, you can get decent looking (although made in India so coming to you the long way around) hinges. A very good chance that with a little research, you could find the equivalent...