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Lance's Workbench

Where life and progress is slower, but satisfying

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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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December 11, 2019 Shop made / Tools

A fishtail chisel in an hour

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been trying my hand at half lap dovetails. Now I know that it

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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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September 18, 2019 Shop made / Tools

Self made dovetail guides

When I started along the dovetail journey, I used a sliding bevel gauge to mark my angles. It quickly became

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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

Recent Comments

  • Roger Hardie on Attempting to [CTRL]+Z a half blind draw-bored mortice and tenon
  • Finding the Toyota Camry of Sliding Bevel Gauges – Lance's Workbench on Sliding Bevel Gauges – The impossible tool?
  • Lance on The plan to make a plane
  • Fiona Verdouw on The plan to make a plane
  • Lance on Plugging leaks (or how to stop blood going everywhere)

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