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I have been woodworking for three years and my sharpening was always somewhat inconsistent. It did not matter if I used a guide or freehand. Sometimes I got a hair-shaving sharp edge and sometimes it cut wood ok, but it could not shave or cut paper effortlessly. I used a loupe to examine the...

Good afternoon, I have bought an adjustable office table base and am about to build an oak tabletop. The final dimensions are 1400 x 850 mm and its final thickness is 40 mm. I would like to ask what some suitable wood fillers for cracks and knots are if I do not want to use epoxy resin...

Hello, I purchased Felder Hammer A2-26 jointer/thicknesser in November 2023. I am overly happy with the machine, but I have some issues that I think have to do with my technique, not with the machine itself. I would like to illustrate it with an example. I am now jointing oak boards for the...

I was a hand-tool-only guy when I started woodworking, but due to time constraints (my wife does not want to wait forever for new furniture and I do not want to spend so much time in the workshop to get things done), I have decided to introduce some machines into my workflow. I think I have a...

Hello, I have ordered Hammer A2-26 jointer/thickness planer, which is due to arrive in January 2024. I need it to be mobile, but it is ridiculous to pay over 200 € for their mobile base. Does anyone own this base (it is shared among all Hammer machines)? Can you tell me the wheel diameter and...

Hello, I am in search of a jointer/thicknesser combo. I am keen on buying Hammer A2-26 (the recently introduced model) which is the lowest offer of Felder products. However this machine does not have a spiral cutter head and I am concerned about the noise, as I have a few neighbors who are...

Hello, I am in search of buying a 230V (EU plug) jointer /thickness planer machine. I have just found out that Felder released this year a brand new Hammer A2-26 jointer thickness planer. It is a bare-bone machine, but looks nice...

Hello, I have started to plane white oak and I have noticed black streaks on the wood. It looks like some metal contamination from my beloved no.5 hand plane. Also, the area behind the mouth continually turned black. I cleaned it with sandpaper but, it started turning black again. I have...

I am just building my workbench and I was thinking about what length should I make it. My workshop is 4x4m, so the space is tight. I have oak slabs for top that are 2 m long, so that is my maximum length. I see that some people (a.k.a. Paul Sellers) have relatively short benches (it looks...

Hello, Can someone explain me the proper use of knife wall method? It is described in Robert Wearing's book and also popularized by Paul Sellers and others. Basically, I score a line around the board and chisel out a half V groove. Then I register my saw against the wall which should help me...

Hello, I am building my new maple workbench and as the maple did not yield enough thickness for the top (only 38 mm), I am planing to buy something thicker (70 - 80 mm). As I am planing and thicknessing by hand, I would like to buy two wide slabs instead of a laminated top. I cannot buy such...

Good evening, I am now hand planing boards of maple for my new workbench top. The total width of the workbench will be 600 mm. My original idea was to use two 250 mm boards and have a 100 mm well with a recessed board in the middle. But the maple boards were so twisted that I had to rip them in...

Hello, I would like to ask about your opinion on planing strategy for gluing up legs from two pieces (Currently, I do not have jointer and thicknesser, so I work with hand planes only). I have tried both methods described below and I would like to know which one makes more sense for you and...

Hello, I have just bought maple for making a workbench ( I made up my mind and changed it from steamed beech as the lumberyard had some extra stock of maple that was not listed on their website). Here in Slovakia, they sell it as maple. I would like to know if it is soft or hard maple and if...

Hello, The 20th century had its fair share of great cabinet makers/woodworkers, e.g. Ernest Gimson, Edward Barnsley, Alan Peters, Karl Malmsten, Gustav Stickley, Robert Thomson, James Krenov, Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene, George Nakashima, etc. - some of them were actually...

Hello, Yesterday, I bought 80 mm thick walnut slabs for my new workbench. It has been air-dried for 10+ years. I was warned that there are wormholes in the sapwood, but for the price of 150 € for the whole lot, it was still a bargain. I cut off the waney edges and most of the wormholes, and...

Hello, I have finally found someone who is willing to buy my workbench and once sold I will be on the brink of making a new one. I was sourcing lumber online and I found people who are selling 75 - 80 mm thick boards of oak/walnut/ash, that have been air-dried for 7 - 10 years. My naive...

Yesterday, after a month of use, I noticed a warning sticker on my Sabre 350 bandsaw. I am far from a native speaker, but it does not feel right to me. Maybe some medieval English :)

Hello, I have a Veritas marking gauge ( the version in the image below). I like it very much, but it often looses its setting, so the main knob gets loose. I have to recheck the distance every few passes. I tighten every other knob prior to setting the distance and I use only the main knob in...

Hello, I have just purchased and assembled Record Power Sabre 350 band saw. I am very satisfied with the cut quality, speed of cutting, and noise level. However, I have found out that the rip fence moves when I enter the cut (although fully tightened). Many of the contractor's table saws have...