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Hello, Can someone explain me the proper use of knife wall method? It is described in Robert Wearing's book and also popularized by Paul Sellers and others. Basically, I score a line around the board and chisel out a half V groove. Then I register my saw against the wall which should help me...

I will skip them and find something else.

I would prefer some hardwood as the base is from Norway Maple. I am waiting for some other classifieds to appear. My base will be ready maybe in a month, so I have enough time to find the right wood.

Thank you. Also it is crooked maybe way too much.

This is how those boards look like. They are 2.5 m long and I do not know the width. I would need two pieces of 250 mm x 1900 mm for the table top. Hopefully they will be wide enough. The seller did not answer yet, so I do not know if they are already sold or he is not willing to sell the boards...

Hi Tom, I am also considering pear as it is a bit unusual and it is tight grained. I am going to call the seller and get further details. Hopefully he will be willing to sell two pieces only, as I do not want to buy the whole lot.

Hello, I am building my new maple workbench and as the maple did not yield enough thickness for the top (only 38 mm), I am planing to buy something thicker (70 - 80 mm). As I am planing and thicknessing by hand, I would like to buy two wide slabs instead of a laminated top. I cannot buy such...

Maybe, I would start looking at some professional cabinet makers on youtube that also happen to record their production process on video. Here are my favorite far eastern ones. They all seem to work alone on the projects, so you can notice what kind of machines they use. And you can see their...

Yes sure, you can ask me, but I live in a different region than you, so prices and availability might be different. Also I am mostly hand tool hobbyist woodworker, so your scope of work might be different. But I am glad to help anyway. Tibi

Hello, my countryman :) I live in the opposite corner of the country near Presov, but nevertheless, welcome :)

It is an alcohol-sharing pipe. It can run hidden under the carpet or behind cabinets to your beloved neighbour. Installation:The default position is that both ends must be exactly level. You can transfer the height of your end position in your home to your neighbour's home by theodolites and...

I have seen that there are shops in the U.S. where each individual board has a price tag and you can walk around and pick what you want. I assume that those boards are way overpriced. In Slovakia, we cannot buy pre-planed hardwoods in big box stores, only softwood is available. I would like to...

I made a mistake in that I wanted to have the top from two wide slabs with a gap in the middle. So that the front and back top boards have mortices to accept the legs and there is a gap where a thinner board goes (well in the middle). I chose the only two boards that yielded 250 mm width and cut...

Only if I could. We have a mill where they put the boards on my car as they go from the lot. I do not have the ability to select the boards myself. And the workers does not seem to be willing to any negotiation. I should be glad that I have any wood at all.

I personally do not think that anyone can take 1 mm thick shaving with a hand plane for a prolonged period of time. Now I have a decent radius on my jack plane and the width of the shaving is less than half the width of the plane blade and I can take 0,4 mm in one pass.

My plank was bigger, but it ripped it in half, because it was so twisted, that it would yield maybe 25-30 mm thickness if I did not rip it. Now I have 40 mm. I will construct it in a way that the top can be removed, so that I can replace it for some 70 - 80 mm slabs later in the future.

Imagine you have a very big slab (like I had 2000 mm long, 300 mm wide and 80 mm thick slab of walnut). It should have been my benchtop but was too wormy, so I had sold it. I would not imagine flipping it 50 times.

First I try to plane the cup away. At least at those places, where winding sticks are placed. So that they do not rock on the cup. Then I remove the wind and then I remove the bow and finally I will level the whole board. I often try to do all those tasks simultaneously, so that I do not remove...

Yes, of course. I would not use a block plane for that board. But I just wanted to make a point, that the white areas would look completely different if I used a block plane. There would be more white areas with block plane, as it is very short and it would get into the valleys easily. There...

I will show you an example. This is a maple board that has a wave contour. I have started to plane it and the white areas in red squares are high spots. I have made a few swipes with no.5 plane. My point is that I cannot deliberately decide to plane those brown low areas, unless I plane the...