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Month: April 2020

April 26, 2020 Musings / Tools

Paul Sellers’ plane pull test

An often raised topic is that it’s hard to know what sharp is unless you’ve experienced a degree of sharpness

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April 24, 2020 Tools

Sliding Bevel Gauges – The impossible tool?

Sky hooks, perpetual motion machines, cold fusion and sliding bevel gauges that lock in place. These are all wonderful theoretical

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April 8, 2020 Tools

My new (to me) Record 076 Bullnose plane

This is one of those planes which are a nice to have luxury, rather than a core tool. None the

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April 8, 2020 Shop made / Tools

The joy of discovering card scrapers

I’ve read about card scrapers and have appreciated their utility, but for whatever reason they occupied the little pigeon hole

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April 6, 2020 Shop made / Tools

The plan to make a plane

I know that for most of you the simple thought of building a hand plane would result in the shaking

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April 2, 2020 Tools

Lathering Thor in oil until shiny.

Many students of Paul Sellers have purchased a Thor 712R hammer on his advice. I am one of those.

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Recent Posts

  • Hanging wall cabinets – forging individual history into a combined future.
  • Attempting to [CTRL]+Z a half blind draw-bored mortice and tenon
  • Restoring an early 80’s Woodfast Lathe
  • Finding the Toyota Camry of Sliding Bevel Gauges
  • Paul Sellers’ plane pull test

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  • Lance on The plan to make a plane
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  • Lance on Plugging leaks (or how to stop blood going everywhere)

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