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On a more positive note, I am awaiting my first ceramic wheel for my grinder, I can't wait. I have Shapton pros for my hand Sharpening. I have used all the different types of stones and I can say categorically, ceramic stones are incredibly good, better than anything else I have sharpened on.

Hi, What is amazing to me is that your makerspace looks identical to the place I go to. It's all about utility not making a pretty workshop. I am leaning towards grinding the skews on my grinder at home and suggesting people hone them with a diamond hone until they need grinding again. I...

Well, with the 3/8 ths skew the new bevel doesn't reach the full width of the cutting edge so only part of the blade has actually been sharpened. This is because the multi jig is not accurate for the small skew, it moves in the jig. The large oval skew has ground better but still requires more...

Hi all, I am at a maker space on the woodturning team, we allowed a tormek wheel to get really small and now the full size replacement means effectively regrinding every tool because of the difference in diameter. I spent more than 2 hours on a 3/8 ths skew and didn't even get 2/3 rds done. We...

Hello Joschua, I am in UK and I just randomly stumbled upon your post. I was hoping to make some small stools of the same design as the benches in your photo. My question is how do you attach the legs to the seat, do you drill normal holes with parallel sides or do you use the veritas reamer and...

I have decided to keep it simple and go with right angled joinery as I believe splay wouldn’t add anything extra to this project, if the footprint of the feet is under the corners of the top( whether splayed or right angled), it’s not going to make a difference to stability with or without...

I am adding a second rail below the top apron which will do the same thing as a deep apron.

Thanks, I am going to stick with the right angled joinery option and keep it nice and simple.

Thanks, I am going to stick with right angled joinery and add some bracing. A friend of mine recently made a shelf unit, he added two horizontal rails inside the top and bottom shelves, just at the back and it completely cured the racking. I think I will do something similar, adding a second...

Thanks, I am going to stick with right angled joinery, legs directly under the corners, I will add some appropriate bracing to stop any racking.

Ok, thanks, I may as well stick to right angled joinery which is easier to set out and cut since the splay option isn’t going to improve stability.

I am making an assembly table/ lay out table/ finishing table. I am using a four by two piece of mdf for the top and I will use cls studs for the frame beneath. I envisage right angle legs bridle jointed to each end of two rails, or I could move the joints inwards away from the ends of the rails...

I am all for hand tool use I find it jarring however when he denigrates the use of machinery and implies a correlation between machinery and lack of skill. It’s interesting to hear other people’s opinions.

Totally, I will be sharing a workshop with a severely disabled woodworker next week. He uses machinery because he has no choice. Maybe I should let him know that everything he does is a second rate version of woodworking. Perhaps I can suggest that he gives up and just watches me doing the real...

He uses machined wood for some of his projects and in the next breath proclaims that machinery is unnecessary. You only see hand tools in his posts but he is definitely putting forth his bizarre opinions about machinery on a regular basis. You couldn’t with any sincerity say otherwise. So he...

Well, Paul Sellers constantly implies that hand tool woodwork is somehow set apart from anything done using machinery despite the fact that his large projects start with machined wood. Whenever he mentions machinery he implies that it’s use is as difficult as locating the on off switch...

Just chatting. I wasn’t aware I was supposed to okay everything with you first but thanks so much for enlightening me. You must be awesome. I want to be like you.

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That’s mental, and illustrates exactly why I hook my fingers over the fence whenever possible. His fence is really wide so I don’t think it would have been an option. The footage also illustrates what I realised some time back. When a kick back happens, it’s all over before the information...

Well I laughed out loud. At the precise moment he says not to move the wood backwards, he moves the wood backwards. I have been woodworking in open access workshops recently and I have been literally speechless at times due to the mental things I see routinely. So the guy in the video seems not...