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October 19, 2021 Musings / Tools

#60½ Block plane ruminations

If the woodworking communities’ hive mind were to choose a pantheon of gods to worship, I think the #60½ block

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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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March 31, 2020 Musings / Tools

Musings on combination squares and quality

I had never seen a combination square before we built our house. One of the tradesmen who was helping us

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March 8, 2020 Musings

Plugging leaks (or how to stop blood going everywhere)

Settle in folks, there is a back story which will take a while to tell. When I was in my

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October 30, 2019 Musings / Shop made / Tools

A plough plane in a pinch with a problem

I’ve been on the lookout for a plough plane for a little while. My main need is for running grooves

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October 5, 2019 Musings

Gluing without clamps – The rub joint

A while ago I read an article by Paul Sellers about spring joints. In it, he made an almost off-hand

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August 5, 2019 Musings

Be still my weeping fingers

Aughhh is winter again and my poor fingers have been aching in the cold once more, and significantly limiting my woodworking time

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August 2, 2019 Musings

The simple beauty of timber

After I had glued up my second bench top half today, I had about twenty minutes before my kids got

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