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Lance's Workbench

Where life and progress is slower, but satisfying

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November 12, 2019 Tools

Buying my Record 043 plough plane

You may recall my partially successful attempt at building a plough plane. I noted that I would look for an

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October 30, 2019 Boxes

Boxes #8 and #9 – Half blind dovetail practice

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying learning to do dovetails, and in order to accelerate my learning, I thought I’d prepare a

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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 26, 2019 Workshop

Improved sheet storage

We generally don’t use a lot of plywood and MDF sheet goods. You would then think we would not have

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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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September 24, 2019 Tools

Resurrecting an unwanted monstrosity as a 8 TPI rip saw

A week ago I wrote about some used hand saws which caused me great disappointment. Following shared commiserations and encouragement

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September 24, 2019 Work Bench

Building my workbench – Part V (Adding the vises)

This post forms part of the “Building my workbench” series. I wanted to add two vises to my bench, a front

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September 18, 2019 Boxes / Projects

Box #7 – A plain plane box

I purchased and refurbished a Stanley # 4 1/2 plane for my brother’s birthday. There were too many sharp angles

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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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September 18, 2019 Tools

How not to sharpen hand saws, and the tribulations of buying used tools.

I have found myself wanting to use a hand saw more and more of late. However I only own a

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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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