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Guest editor Mark Palma restores a CBN wheel which has seen better days CBN wheels are a popular upgrade for

Phil Edwards is the man behind Britain’s only commercial maker of traditional wooden planes – Philly Planes – but his

Oliver Waters and Jim Cooper share a few techniques for establishing reliable layout lines for crisp joints Students on a

If you’ve ever had a wobble when you’re routing, the editor knows exactly why! One of the most basic mistakes

Charles Mak shares a few ideas for preventing an angled jaw, which can cause your work to slide or vibrate

Charles Mak covers the basics of the router plane, also nostalgically referred to as a Granny’s Tooth, a tool for

Kurt Hertzog explains how to choose and use PPE. In virtually every column, after the introduction I begin with a

In part one of a two-part series, guest editor Nic Westermann covers the basics of heat treating steel. I have