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Hi all, Yesterday I finished a new sofa table and wanted to share with you. It's made of American Cherry and measures 120 x 80 x 42 cm. Inspiration came from a George II table, above all legs and molding, from a krenovanian top bevel and from the colonial style of my bookshelf, the inner...

Well, at least one... Yesterday I reached for a 1/2 inch japanese bench chisel - an Iyoroi I always was grateful to own - and cleaned the sockets of dovetails. Now I had considerable problems of getting the bottom straight and square. The bottoms got terribly undercut. As I got back to work...

Hi all, I'm starting a new project these days, a pegboard, shaker style. As I turned my first pegs today, I saw, the sizing of the dowel part that will go into the pegboard later, is fiddly work. My first attempts look like these: I turned the blank down to half an inch, so it went into the...

Hi all, Well I have to admit, I can't find wall sockets in UK. I need to have one wall mounted socket in order to switch an english Tormek to a continental plug system. I could easily fit a continental plug to the machine, but it probably would annihilate any warrantee. First I thought looking...

Let us be realistic, a big lump of hand tools are bought via internet. In the early past I ordered some tools here and there over the pond, over the Channel and often enough I got frustrated. No answer after having posted my order, no confirmation that it has been shipped during three days or...

Hi all, The 5/16 mortice chisel is a good tool. If only the handle was a tad longer. My praw grabs it with the little finger around the steel. That was not comfortable a grip. It was like holding something to thin in your hand. As I got a lathe this summer I turned a handle a bit longer. It...

Hi all, We recently had a brainstorming there over in the German forum on how to plane a concave curve of radius 4inches on a board. There were many ideas and I followed the one of the spokeshave. So I ordered a low angle model by Veritas. It worked not as bad as a scraper blade but I couldn't...

Hi all, Eternal, because I nearly needed a year to complete. Here's the first pic, showing it fulfilling its destination. But let's see at the beginning, where two 2 inch planks awaited a then straight rip saw, which now is kinked. After a lot of hand planing and later on with the help of...

Hi all, Having in mind now for over a year to dive in turning, because, mainly making furniture, it is sometimes useful to make a handle or a knob or... I decided buying a small jet wood lathe, the JML 1014 model, maybe with the bed extension, don't know yet. That's definitely my problem, not...

Hi folks, But I wonder if a #55 wouldn't be a good addtion to my coll... :lol: The last days I used the #45 for T&G, especially tongues were fast and well planed. In the past I used a woody for that job and I have to say the boat anchor was a revelation, good heft, running very steady with a...

Hi all, I started a bench ( not for working, just sitting on :lol: ) in green wood yesterday with my class, i.e. kids from 10 to 12. They had much fun drilling with my Millers Falls brace and 1 inch holes were no problem. Even with a gent's saw they cut off the wood with great enthusiasm. In...

Hi all, Recently I bought a #53 spokeshave, the one with the adjustable mouth. Great tool! I installed a Hock replacement iron and it works very fine. Now I read in the "Handplane Book" by Garrett Hack it exists a #54, looking all the same in the book's pic as mine, the #53. I got no...

Hi all, I made the supports this morning and wanted to share the method. Tools I used on this pic: But all you really need is a chisel, a jig and a saw. The chisel plane is lovely to take off the last smoothing cut nothing more. After working with a japanese bench chisel, I find its cheap...

Hi all, Yesterday I was putting to work a 19 mm paring chisel from Crown, kind of flattening the back, grinding a lower angle and so on. While making a break I checked the back for flatness. Well a little disappointment caught my face as I measured a belly on the length of the blade: 0,2 mm on...

Hi all, Gluing up a frame for a bookshelf, the first part of three, I encounter old well known problems. Dividing the gluing process helps surely but this step here is one and only - well I think. This way I already glued the side frames together. Now I will join them to 4 rails. In order to...

Hi, Look what I found on my doorstep this week. No game just some pics :mrgreen: Two details first, the teeth at toe and those at heal: Any guesses? Not intended :wink: Look at the makers name! Somebody knows? Any hint would be much appreciated. Here the tool in all its beauty, not...

Hello all, I retoothed an old Tyzack and Son saw today. Having read how Leif Hanson does this with a sheet of paper, I thought it would work for me too. But hélas... I am not that skilled #-o . So I decided I'd need something like a fence, or a jig to properly space the teeth. The saw has 10...

Hello all, You know this, you buy a new plane, sharpen the blade and ... oh god, it does not do what you want it to. That said, my new Ulmia rabbet plane didn't perform square rabbets, they were always a little bit off and I had to work the rabbets with shoulder plane and chisel. But thanks...

Speaking alot mortice chisels here these days, well, is it the moonlight , I got my new one today and wanted to show you. Strange :shock: I thought japanese ones are not common and the size isn't too. But as I'm delighted by my Ioroi bench chisels, I couldn't resist inviting this one at my...

Hello all, I'm more of the handtool board, but last week I got in machinery again, so I open a thread here. I wondered if there is a jig, shopmade or not, for thicknessers. It should allow planing or jointing roughsawn boards. If anybody knows, I'd be glad she or he could point me to it...