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My grandfather was a carpenter and cabinetmaker by trade, and passed away a year ago. I've been helping my Mum identify some of the tools in his workshop and came across some real lovely tools in there, but today I found an unusual saw that I haven't been able to find any information on it. Its...

I'm a big fellow at 6'6", so I've got a long arm stroke to match, and I don't have a bandsaw so all stock prep is done by hand. For years I've kept an eye on ebay and local flea markets for a nice big ripsaw to ease the pain, but I've never had any luck. I was chatting with Pedder a few weeks...

After moving into our new place I managed to talk the missus into letting me have the smallest bedroom as my workshop - its a pokey little thing, 2.2m*3.5m (about 7.2' * 11.5'). I've finally finished most of my planned storage projects so have gotten the shop tidied up and things put away, so...

I realize that double-posting is normally a bit of a faux pas on a forum, but after originally posting my thread over in the Projects/workshop tours forum I realized that it was probably better suited here in the hand tools forum, since I'm a first and foremost a hand tool user. Mods, feel free...

In a few weeks we're moving to a bigger place - I think its called a duplex house in English, basically like a terrace house but with only two houses, joined along one wall. We'll only have a tiny yard so theres no space for a workshop out there, but we'll have a spare room that SWMBO has kindly...

Ok this is a little premature since I don't have anything in my hands yet to show photos of, but I couldn't resist a bit of pre-gloat! :D So I just pulled the trigger on my Christmas present to myself! :ho2 :ho2 I've been using scary sharp for some time now and got along fairly well with it...

Until now I've been using our apartment's glassed-in balcony as a workshop. This is not ideal in many, many ways - not least of all the exposure to changing humidity and temperature, and the inability to make construction noise after 7pm. I get home from work around 6:30pm, so this means that...

Another forum is holding a $100 instrument building competition, so I thought I'd give it a go! I figured you lot would be interested to follow this, so I'm posting here about it as well. My build is being done entirely with hand tools, on my balcony. Its going to be a 25" scale 7 string...

After keeping my eye on ebay for a long time I finally scored some stuff! I picked this up from customs today, winnings via ebay from an estate sale in the US. 9 saws, a Stanley 271 and an Eclipse No 77. Grand total? $40! Of course lob in shipping and it worked out to about $100, but still a...

So for the last few years I've been making do with a crappy cheap hardpoint saw for misc DIY stuff and a couple of decent Japanese saws. I'm a full neander (by necessity) so resawing by hand is a fact of life. Normally I just try to avoid projects that require me to do much resawing, which is a...

This is part workshop tour, part past mistakes, and part project planning ;) Living in an apartment has its downsides! For a long time I've been aching to get more serious about my on again off again woodworking hobby, and lately its got too much for me to resist. So, my situation: - I live in...

I quite enjoy building guitars, however cutting the truss rod slot is a bit of a pain. A plough plane would be ideal for this - I've been bitten somewhat by the plane making bug, so I've been looking around a bit for information online on building one. However I haven't found too much on the...

I'm new here, be gentle ;) I've been lurking for a long time, however! Apologies to those of you that are on the Sawmill Creek forums, I've already posted a thread about this on there. I felt like expanding my gloat to here, though, as I'm well chuffed ;) Bit of background: I'm an apartment...