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Just thought I could help on the choice of wood bit. Ash does make a good chisel handle and many manufacturers past and present use it because it's a native western hardwood that is readily available and poses no threats to endangered forestlands. It's fibers are somewhat softer than other...

Please, please don't continue with the "don't lever with the mortise chisel" theories. After forty years of levering mortises with chisels of every type including those finely made by L-N and Ashly Isles; sash, mortise and bevel edged included, I have never yet bent a chisel though of course I...

Hi Marc, A good chisel handle wood for replacement handles is hickory and pickax and sledge hammer handles are often made from this wood. It has tremendous resistance to snapping and has the kind of flex needed for tools under stress. Being a close and fairly dense-grained hardwood it turns well...

Either of these two bandsaws will more than adequately handle the work you describe and you can further fine tune them over and above the manufacturers set up for perfect cuts. One of the failures to look for is out of balance wheels which results in vibration in the whole of the machine. Turn...

I'm glad you posted because I know that many experience the same conflict. Let me take it a step more and see if I can shed some light simply because my ambition is that you would experience the pure joy of creating the perfect marriage every time. I am not saying that you or indeed anyone...

There are other considerations when edge-jointing the meeting edges of boards, which is what I assume you are meaning. Placing the two faces or back faces face to face when you plane the edges means that you don't have to think so much about planing square as the angle of one compensates for the...

Hi Ivan, Thanks for the information. Words and their etymology are important. Not sure why the company chose two L's for their name. Perhaps they didn't think it was full enough. :wink:

I thought it might help others to see the reshaped profile to the ends of my Faithful chisels. This little alteration really improved the chisel without altering any hand comfort when paring and so on. Also, I forgot to mention the profile of the chisel which is square sectioned with rounded...

I am always being asked by students if I can recommend a good set of woodworking chisels that don't cost an arm and a leg, and wrote a short review on my blog , but many of the modern manufacturers have developed chisel types that are unpredictably available or have features totally unsuited to...

Hi Gary, I suppose as a Brit I can make a comment or two about British saw makers as opposed to our US cousins over there. I have focused a lot of my personal research on saws through the years and actually would have no criticism of US saw makers and the quality of their work. As an apprentice...

Use Boshield T-9. I use it at the hand tool school during down time and it lasts for months. Works great. Paul Sellers

Sorry to hear of the mishap. I remember when I bought my first planes over forty years ago. I got £3.10s a week and bought my tools every week out my wages when I could afford them. I still have them and use them every day. Most have them have at least fifty dings in them despite my care and...

Hi Byron, This may be tons more than you want on shooting boards and such but I wrote it a couple of years ago for Popular Woodworking in USA. http://www.popularwoodworking.com/store ... =12/1/2006

I'm afraid there are hundreds of different chisels and whereas many were indeed useful, I'm equally afraid that many were not. Corner chisels are sold to enthusiasts who find little or no use for them after they buy them and so it was the same for swan-neck chisels for most everyday woodworking...

There are so many sizes of saws and different ways to set and sharpen them to that it is often confusing for may who are new to the art. saw sharpening and setting are two basic and very simple tasks. All too often,saws coming from many modern-day manufacturers have far too much set which is in...