How to Accurately Locate Holes: Custom Knife Scales (Handle) – Part 3
How to Accurately Locate Holes: Custom Knife Scales (Handle) – Part 3: Accurately transferring the location of a hole from…
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The Cabinetmakers’ Flexible Friend
The Cabinetmakers’ Flexible Friend: Jim Hooker takes a fresh look at sharpening the humble scraper and suggests a way to…
Custom Knife Scales (Handle), Part 2: How to Make a Pattern
Custom Knife Scales (Handle), Part 2: How to Make a Pattern: In the woodworking shop, taking the time to make…
Lip Service
Lip Service: Derek Jones looks at the received wisdom surrounding tight mouths and whether it might be just a result of…
How to Make Custom Knife Scales, Part 1
How to Make Custom Knife Scales, Part 1: Creating custom scales for the handle of a fixed-blade knife requires a…
A Look Back through 4000 Years of Woodturning
A Look Back through 4000 Years of Woodturning: Stuart King talks us through 4000 years of woodturning and creates lathe-turned…
Decorative Mouldings
Decorative Mouldings: Frederick Wilbur explains how to carve classical mouldings. The most common architectural decoration is the moulding which, plain…
Easy-to-Build Shooting Board
Easy-to-Build Shooting Board: A simple shooting board is an accessory for a hand plane used for squaring the ends of…
V-tools – Love Them or Hate Them
V-tools – Love Them or Hate Them: Peter Benson explores using and sharpening a V-tool. The V, or parting, tool…
Workshop Geometry: Perpendicular Line
Workshop Geometry: Perpendicular Line: Part of our “Workshop Geometry” series for solving geometry problems in the woodworking shop using only…