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The more I think about it Jacob, the less plausible your theory seems to me. When you pick up a new saw and start a cut, the saw will be fully visible until you are a few inches into the cut. By that time a reasonably accomplished sawyer would have addapted his stroke to that particluar saw...

Ha ha, you are quite right there Keith! The saw I linked to is from the Skokloster collection which was purchased by General Wrangl who was indeed a gentleman woodworker like that. But in Central Europe there was a long standing culture of ornamenting your tools. The Typical Dutch planes with...

You should understand the work etique from those early times. Nobody would add a feature to a tool so it was "easy for a beginner". Kinking a sawblade was amateurish, and not even a beginning aprentice would have been allowed such stupid stuff. Toolmakers took woodworkers serious. No gentlemen...

? At a time they all had them but they dissapeared with the skew back saws.

The plate length indicator theory is not very plausible. These saws were made for professionals who knew how to use a saw without kinking. Hamfisted beginners would kink the saw anyway because their reaction time is too slow. When you look at where the nib came from, Dutch 17 thcentury saws...

My kitchen also was in that region about 8 000 - 10000euro. By far the most was the kitchen counter, some kind of quartz material I had installed because it was too difficult to do myself. The range (2500) and the other appliances were also expensive. The wood and plywood for the cabinets was...

Very nice David! And the wood is of great color and grain indeed. Doesn't cherry get a lot darker after a while? I can't say anything about your speed, I am terribly slow in completing projects too.

No that last bit doesn’t work like that. With two hands on the metal body, they are both at the same potential. So no current will flow from one hand, through your body to the other hand and back into the metal body. The current will seek a path towards earth. So most dangerous is one hand on a...

No that last bit doesn’t work like that. With two hands on the metal body, they are both at the same potential. So no current will flow from one hand, through your body to the other hand and back into the metal body. The current will seek a path towards earth. So most dangerous is one hand on a...

Before you start flattening the edge of your capiron first check if the face of the cutting blade is actually really flat. In the past I have managed to make a blade rather concave, while trying to flatten it. That caused some serious headscrathing to find out why my flat capiron was still...

What a lovely project! I like your forge :lol: Whatever to get the job done!

You could try grinding the edge back a mm or 2. And sharpen at a higher angle. Up to 35 degrees or so. That helps edge life too. How do you sharpen, oilstones, or something else? And how does the edge fail, chipping or folding?

I used a saw, chisels and a router plane to level the bottom. Cut it a bit tight and do all the adjustments on the male part with a simple dovetail plane.

And it also works with flat stuff. As soon as all the ripples, cup, twist etc are gone, and I am able to take through shavings, the board will be flat lenghtwise. Most of the time. And when the plane is long enough of course. This used to be a problem for me, especially making it convex...

When I wrote about the method of "trying to dig a hole" that was ment as a learning exercise. I am not all the time trying.to dig holes in my timber. Stuff now happens almost automatically with a plane long enough. When I joint an edge I first work hard to square the edge which needs quite some...

Btw. I know where you are comming from. On my first real big project, the kitchen cabinets, I did all the panel glue ups with a long grain shooting board too. And yes that was painfull! I think I burned that shooting board....

No indeed, nothing is silly person proof in handtool woodworking. Skills take time to learn.

Search for hotdog handle, if you want to improve shooting board comfort. For a tabletpp you don't need absolute square ends. Glue up the top a bit oversize, saw the ends and clean up with a plane. For boxes, yes this is prime shooting board teritory! But there are only four corners on a box...

I don't know what you are making, but it helps to be conservative about what to shoot and what not. Handtool work asks for smart use of the tools. Do as little as possible. Not every stick needs to be squared on six sides. Hell, most only need two or three straight sides! Your post sounds like...

A trick to learn how to pressure the plane during a full length stroke is "tryingto dig a hole in the middle of the board". When you do full length strokes with a long plane, then digging that hole really isn't going to happen, but trying to do that helps you to put pressure on the front of the...