Planing Plastic?

Did you know that you can plane plastic? Me neither. I used my old Stanley #4. Its sweetheart era blade was razor sharp, though I’m not sure it needed to be. The “shavings” are [...]

Tom’s Torsion Box Workbench

Tom’s Torsion Box Workbench This rock-solid workhorse is simply four easy-to-build 2×4-and-plywood boxes. By Tom Caspar Quick, cheap, solid. You can’t ask much more from a workbench, [...]

The Woodwright’s Shop, Revisited

Now that classic episodes of Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s Shop” are available I’ve been looking at some of the earliest episodes. They are fascinating for a [...]

Gramercy Holdfasts-the Real Story

Way back in 2005, I wrote an article for issue #4 of Woodworking Magazine about holdfasts. At the time, very few woodworkers knew what a holdfast was, and the article reviewed available [...]

BOOKS/NEWSPAPERS

WHAT IDEAS DO YOU HAVE FOR YOUR NEWSPAPERS AND OLD BOOKS ???? THINK RECYCLE SAVE TREES … THE SAME GOES FOR TIMBER PALLETS / OLD SCAFFOLD BOARDS/ DONT BURN REUSE. IT MAKES SENSE IN THE LONG [...]

PLEASE USE ME

  US paper consumption has more than tripled since 1960, with the typical American now using 347 kilograms of paper every year – more than 50 [...]

A 500-year-old Shavehorse

There are some woodworkers who say that shavehorses weren’t used in chairmaking – according to the historical record. But shavehorses were definitely used in the mining industry. Check out this [...]

French my Bench

This summer I have made two changes to my Roubo-style workbench that I built in 2005 that have made the bench even more effective and easy to use. First up, a real-deal antique French holdfast, [...]