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Inspired by Alf's tutorial on making saw handles I decided to try and make a Peace handle. For those who don't know some of the handles that were made were contoured to fit the hand better. This one is done for a righty. I took an old Warranted Superior panel saw my Dad gave me. The handle...

I apologize in advance if this isn't the right forum for this, but I couldn't think of a better place to put it. I have some somewhat green cedar that is checking. I have sealed the ends. I'm just wondering if I should cut off the up to the check to stop it, leave it, or something else. I'm...

I'll admit I had something in mind when I pulled the trigger on this saw, but it seems to be a bit larger than I originally thought, and heavy too. I would almost rate it a 2 man saw. The large saw is a disston with a blade length of 31". The PAX 14" tenon is next to it to get an idea of the...

I'll admit this is my first experience with the stuff and so far its been nasty. I got a couple of 12" boards I'm just trying to clean up. There are a lot of cloudy looking areas where its looks like a planer got a bit of tear out. As I am planing I am having a difficult time getting rid of...

Does anyone know if anybody makes one of these or a similar device for drawing ellipses. All I've been able to find are templates. During my search for one of these I found all kinds of interesting ways to draw them, but it still looks like a pain.

I'm trying to cut a tongue and groove with a Sargent 1040 (I think similar to #45) and am having a hard time figuring it out. I sharpened up the tongue cutter and am messing with that at the moment. I initially just tried to reference off of the skates but the skates limit the depth of cut or...

I bought the 220 grit GlassStone since it seemed relatively cheap ($29) and was wondering if anybody knows anything about these. I was a little confused about it at first as I thought the diamonds were on the glass side. It took me a minute or so to figure that wasn't right. It seems to cut...

I am making a panel gauge and decided to use a knife for scoring. So took one of the indian plane blades I had around and proceed to cut a bit out of it. I ended up using a dremel tool and then shaped it up with sandpaper. At some point it got hot but definitely not red hot. I got to the...

I recently bought one of these and am pretty happy with it so far. I have been sharpening different blades to see if it could handle them all and it has so far. I had to build a little jig to sharpen a radius on my scrub plane blade, and it works great. My initial sharpening of the LN 140...

I am trying to joint this board with a Primus jointer and it doesn't seem to making good contact with the wood. I checked the flatness and it does seem a bit concave before and after the mouth. I'm just wondering if thats the problem. It seems more apt to bite into the board near the end...

I obtained a Sargent 1080 combo plane and just recently got around to trying it out in anticipation of cutting some 1/2 dados. I sharpened the 1/2 cutter, and the nickers. I used a DMT knife jig for sharpening the nickers which worked really well. My first attempt at using this did not go...

I recently watched that Rob Cosman video and saw him squirting wax on the soles of his planes. This seems like a much easier way than the way I have been doing it, which is to apply the wax, wait for it to dry, wax off. I like the idea of just being able to squirt some on, but was unsure of...