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Lance's Workbench

Where life and progress is slower, but satisfying

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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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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 Projects

A set of drawers for keys and sunglasses

We have a cupboard in our kitchen which houses the bread maker. Over time it has also become the repository

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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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December 23, 2019 Projects

A boy and his drawers

Once upon a time there was a boy was married to a girl who developed an enjoyment of woodwork. She

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December 11, 2019 Uncategorized

Death (or what feels like it) by woodworking Lego

These little suckers. The waste from dovetails. Barefoot and a piece of woodworking Lego underfoot will have the neighbours wondering

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