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Interesting. In self reflection, the work done at commercial shops had the design done when we started. In my own personal work, I have spent my time doing more reproduction work than new ideas. A shaker chest of drawers can be adapted to fit a need but the design is still shaker. The...

Very interesting commentary. I have three bedrocks and a few LN planes. My #4 bedrock dates back to my grand dad. The cap iron is key. I mostly work in North American hardwoods and have found much of what you say accurate. I got a nickelsen patternmakers rasp years ago and like it. But I need...

Look up The old steam powered machine shop on YouTube with Dave Richards. According to Henry ford, the DP is equal to (number of teeth + 2)/blank diameter. So a 40 tooth gear with a 4 in OD would have a DP of 10.5. Unlikely! But a 40 tooth gear having a 4.25 in OD would yield a DP of 10...

That makes sense. So there is no practical value in doing this. I would like to see him tackle some projects that would interest folks and leave the hard sell out of it. If people are interested they will approach him. Example! I am beginning work on a scratch built hawkin rifle. In my research...

Check the internet or machinists handbook. David Tichatds covers some of this in his YouTube videos on the old steam powered machine shop. The equation for DP establishes a relationship between the pitch circle and the OD. If you have the OD and tooth count you can compute the DP. As an older...

in all fairness I give him credit for that. I didn’t know about the kitchen project. The tool contract was likely the Lie Nielsen days. Gentleman woodworking is nothing new. Even Peter the Great was into it with Rose Ornamental turning lathes. So there has always been a market in this area...

Contact Keith Rucker at vintage machinery.com and check out his YouTube tube channel. Check out David Richards on YouTube. He had the old steam powered machine shop. I would help but my so called girlfriend filed a common law against me and I am struggling with that now. May have to find a new...

As mentioned either way works. I like to take the time to mark out my tails for my stuff. I can look at it to see if I like it. In tool boxes made for individual tools I like to saw the lid free one the box is done. So a tail first approach allows for lid kerf allowance and proper placement...

A very elegant statement. My issue with Krenov is that I see his work more as artistic sculpture than practical furniture. It certainly makes a statement. A fluiditic fusion of modern lines and unusual organic wood features. I doubt there is a true woodworker that wouldn’t admire it as a piece...

Hey Wallace, I apologize! Yup you need acetone!!!! Not always easy to get these days except in auto body supply shops. I also have a special primer gun for shooting this goop! And unless you have a ventilated space, forget going to the pub afterwards…. There will be no need for four or five...

In my research of machine tool history and the history of patternmaking I came across an interesting fact. Quartersawn white oak! It was the plastic of their day. The machinist chest replaced the trunk style tool chest during this time frame. One of the last makers today is Grestner in Ohio...

Crossmans saw are extremely expensive! Years back, after not being able to find an English dovetail saw I stumbled on an small internet maker. His day job was in the computer industry but he made these saws in his basement. So I bought one. I still use that saw today. The name of his company...

Don’t get me started on bandsaws. I watched in awe as guys at the shows would cut out animals at warp drive without a template. Then they try to blame your issues on your saw and proceed to sell you new guides, special blades and extrusion fences. Totally Sickening! What derails them is when...

I love to see PKs getting a new lease on life. Mine is moving forward as well.:) I have never seen that pattern before. As Wallace said, the surface is planed. If you look carefully you can see planer marks esp towards the edges. At first I thought it was a sander or grinder. But the pattern...

I will give him credit for getting good work done but..,,,, 1). Aside from his work bench project I cannot recall any major projects or pieces he has done. But to be fair, I rarely photographed or videoed my work either. Something I need to get going on. 2). years back, when getting serious, I...

This is a wonderful look at Townsends work. I didn’t know that Townsend used this much mahogany which was pricy back then. His dovetail work on this piece was outstanding. I am tempted to say his works trumped the chippendale work I have seen. Really impressed.

By the way, a badger is not an animal. It is an English plane with a wood body about the size of a Stanley or record #5 with a wide mouth and often a curved blade. It takes a really thick shaving. It can take a board dow to thickness fast!

That is indeed true. They didn’t have the modern machines we have. In the few reproductions I have done, not many mind you, I actually used a LN scrub plane on these surfaces to get rid of machine marks to make it more realistic. It the only time I have used the scrub plane.

England was the center of the universe for high end work at the time. The Germans were influenced by religious viewpoints which would spawn the shaker and Amish schools of design. The top end tools reflect this. As much as I love my original Stanley’s and LN tools, nothing cuts hardwood like an...

Your reasoning is spot on and my proof is in two parts. 1). I have access to originals and I have seen this to be the case. 2). The drawer bottoms were solid wood. They were not finished as evidenced by rough tool marks done by either a scrub plane or a badger. I have seen the same to be true...