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The ultimate edge Is rubbish for precision edges(planes big chisels) I mean things that have to be straight and fairly smooth. For them...

I've had both the Pro-Edge and an original green Tormek and now use a T7 with a coarse diamond wheel. The Pro-Edge and it's Axminster...

The rounded face on a Japanese geno hammer is also used for compressing the fibres if your joint, say a mortice n'tenon is too tight...

Too much of a faff. Look at the clip I posted; if the fence is 'out of kilter', remove it, take a few shavings as shown to make it true...

Your garst is going to be even more flabbered when you see: ...how I machined the pine cores to size:p and it's not 'climb cutting' - Rob

There were a load of niggly things that went sort of pear shaped with this job, you know the sort of thing that happens when you're not...

I wasn't working full tilt at it from 9-5 every day, but I started it just after Christmas. The previous Nov we'd been to Japan and...

Thanks Ian. Construction was by using long rebates machined on the router table: I made the pine cores from ordinary stack laminated...

Over the last few decades I've made loads of these things and no matter how accurate you make them initially, they always go 'out of...

Thanks and yes, all the drawer boxes are dovetailed and incorporate a central runner; the sides don't actually have to make contact with...

The original box made by Suda Kenji uses surface mounted hinges which gives greater clearance when it's opened; hence this one does as...

An interpretation of a Japanese masterpiece that can be seen in the V&A in London, made primarily with Bog Oak veneers over a pine core...