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Hello, Keep making planes from rectangular baulks of wood and leave the aesthetics to people who actually make furniture! Mike. And yes, aesthetics is spelled like this, I speak English correctly too.

Hello, Looks OK to me......there is a good reason for spacing dovetails so there are more towards the edges. I do it like that myself. If a joint is going to let go, it is going to do it at the edges, so put more joints there, to give more glue area. It also gives the work a bit of visual...

Hello, Sorry, double submission. Mike.

Hello, Chris Tribe, Complete Woodworking is great. Not gimmicky or preachy like Sellers can be, not reliant on selling or using boutique tools like Cosman and more modern than Wearing. I think it is the best primer for beginners/intermediate woodworkers, written by a fine craftsman and...

Hello, A spider isn't an insect :lol: Mike.

Hello, They did use straight edges, you know! Custard's mahogany one is a very old design, as is his method for making them. Steel ones, for sure, would have been too expensive and heavy for the vintage craftsmen, but straight edges would have been made and therefore used. Mike.

Hello Charlie, :D :) :D It wasn't me, honest! :roll: his shop is nicer than mine, but I own some hammers!!! Besides, my video would be accompanied by kitschy prog rock, not Latin! It works, though. I feel for you re. the heat. I struggle in hot British summers, heck knows how I'd manage...

Hello, Folding wedges between 2 battens that are screwed to a (waxed) board is my preferred way of clamping thin stock. Seems to work well and doesn't introduce any 'apexing' of the join, which sash cramps can do. It works with sawn veneers, too, though a brick can help here. PVA and it's...

Hello, If you sharpen a medium pencil with an elliptical point and do pins first, you will not need a dart or marking knife or scratch awl or scalpel, making the last dozen pages obsolete! :-" a pencil is all you need, save your scalpel for sharpening it. Mike.

Hello, Single bevel, always. A drawknife is a bevel controlled tool, a secondary bevel makes control difficult. The bevel should be set to make the tool present to the work at a comfortable attitude. If this bevel is too thin to hold an edge, then thicken with a back bevel. Mike.

Hello, Corneel has it, try to plane a slight hollow. You won't, but the action of trying to, by trying to take a thicker shaving in the middle of the board, will counteract the convexity you are getting. If you think about how a plane works, it will always produce a convex edge on a board, and...

Hello, I doubt you could give that sort of furniture away in Britain. :wink: Mike.

Hello, I agree with all of this, except, perhaps that Moser makes art! Looking at the designs, I must say, some of them are actually brilliant. Since Moser's son has taken over the design aspect of the business and made some more contemporary twists on the American classics, I think the...

Hello, It is fair enough if this furniture is not to your taste, but it is a business model that has worked, and I say again, in the Western world, for 45 years. It has kept craftsmen in employment with the facility to feed their families and not live like impoverished, whinging martyrs. I...

Hello, A fine example of a business model that works in the Western world. Unfussy, minimal and made by a team who batch produce and work at stations where tasks are repeated for efficiency. I doubt it was too dissimilar to the Firm, William Morris's company back in the day, or that of Edward...

Hello, Absolutely! Most often this means all boards being heart side up. Alternating the end grain is a bit academic, really. If you were making a board, just a board and nothing else, then alternating makes sense. However, most boards are part of a piece of furniture, and will have the...

Hello, Krenov didn't use them in a router! I use them as he did in a horizontal drill with a table for support. In my case, I use my swivel head woodturning lathe and a collet chuck to hold the end mills. Done this way, at much lower speeds than a router, the bits do cut very well, clean walls...

Hello, The essential triumvirate. With a block plane in the mix, I think 99% of all planing tasks are done with these, from rough timber to fine finish, dimensioning to jointing to polish. A low angle jack is specialist when you have the experienced and feel the need. You might never feel the...

Hello, Wow, Jacob do you even know what a rhetorical question is? Mike.

Hello, There is a paradox here, that cannot be explained, except by the fact your statement is beyond stupid. If innovation came from the country, what exactly is 'country vernacular furniture?' Mike.