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A good sudgestion! Toolwise you could get away with using just a tape measure, square, saw and a drill driver if you got some decent planed boards. Or you could recycle some pallets in which case you might also need a nail bar to remove nails, and a plane (hand or electric) or a sander to tidy...

At one time I wouldnt have accepted that view, but I can these days :| . Check out the old machines by wadkins, robinsons etc, still up and running a century later and doing the job they were designed and built for....norris, spiers, a bit more durable than some crappy disposable rali effort...

A good example was how he went against the holy grail accepted wisdom that chair arms simply must be made from out of riven straight stock, nothing else will do. He simply got a wide 1 inch thick ash board, then cut it into narrow strips following the growth lines, then used these as arm blanks...

What did she plead guilty to? I cant be the only one who is wondering?

Why not have a go at a painted finish? 3 out of 4 cant be bad.... All species of wood (not just elm) varies a lot, depending on various things such as its growing conditions, was it a solitary tree such as a field oak with lots of branch growth, or a straighter one from within a deeper forest...

Scribing is absolutely a central pivotal skill of woodworking, wether its scribing mortise positions, tennon cheeks & dovetails, kitchen worktops or skirting and door architrave. As with any wood work procedure, the marking out (scribing) is vitally important. It wont matter wether you use the...

Do a copy of an Irish gibson, hedgrow or fireside chair, they dont come much more simpler or basic than that form-a simple plank seat, 4 whittled legs, 5 or 6 spindles and a comb. No complex turnings or steam bending involved, and if you get the proportions and angles riight they are incredibly...

wizard just ot that off T Konvaloffs site...

Interesting provocative article on Tony Konvaloff's site http://tonykonovaloff.com/?page_id=1064

Just came across this and it reminded me of this thread. Tony Konovaloff uses something very similar http://tonykonovaloff.com/?page_id=50

I use a norton india comination oil stone now. Very un-cool 8) , but they are under rated pieces of kit. Mine was bought around 7 years ago, then quickly put aside in favour of jap stones-until I had a Kingshott moment quite recently and rediscovered how efficient they really are....It does...

Thanks for posting the original link. Personally I am not that interested, you win some you lose some.... Whats the editors favourite maxim? "Publish and be damned" :lol:

Microtome blades are sharp, very sharp. They have to be as they are used to sliice tissue samples that were embedded in wax, for microscopic examination. If the blade isnt properly sharpened the cell structure gets ruined. The blades are honed on a machine that resembles a record player, with a...

I take it they dont have snowploughs and gritters in Russia then? I seen some equally crazy stunts in my time, plenty of british drivers equally stupid, but it seems the russians have to have a dash cam for insurance or whatever, so they get to see it recorded on film. Round here (Mid Suffolk)...

You would get finely curled shavings out of a narrow rebate plane, havent used mine this last few days, so no pics... :) Or you could use some saw dust instead? Or how about custom made little cedar boards (nice grain, nice smell) to fit snugly in the box with the shape of the small flask (is...

Interesting link, thanks for posting. I had a sift through the various shvings on my shop floor this morning, here are a few of them Ash from a wooden spokeshave Thick set jack plane, redwood pine Coarse cut scrub plane, pitch pine Medium set jack plane, pitch pine Smoothing plane fine set...

This has made me think, years ago there was a product called wood wool which was replaced by poly styrene in packing boxes, (now they tend to use recycled paper....) But I often wondered as a little kid how do they get all that many joiners shavings together to pack all the boxes :lol: ....I...

I know when my plane is sharp (especially the sloother) when the scratchy dull grey areas of micro tera out on the boards gradually start to turn into a burnished shiny sheen instead. Thats as sharp as I need, anything more (?) is academic and unnecessary :)

I would say dont get too hung up on "being an engineer", calcs etc. Timber framing isnt precision cabunet making. Its good to do extensive studies of traditional frames if you havent already. The best ways of doing it were worked out long ago, if it aint broke dont fix it so to speak...The...

Imperfectly perfect? or Perfectly imperfect?