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I just bought some persimmon from Jim Walsh, the kcwoodbutcher, in Kansas City. He operates a bandsaw mill and kiln in his backyard. It's a treat going over there and standing around in the piles of...

I hope Mark won't mind if I post what I sent him directly, for use in his customer testimonials. I don't see how I can leave a question like "Has anyone had experience with Bad Axe saws?" unanswered....

I bought an Atoma 400 from Stu at toolsfromjapan.com last month for $85 including shipping, and it came in 10 days or less. I use it only to flatten Shaptons, 1000 to 12000, and it works great. I...

I don't think it mattered at all that my dog holes drifted off plumb, other than I felt the shame of shoddy workmanship. If I extended the dogs 3" up from the benchtop, the out of plumb would be...

I made the long tenon on the end of the bench just like Ron Brese described, then used 4 5" 5/16 hex bolts engaging square nuts mortised in from the bottom of the benchtop. I enlarged the holes in...

I wanted to make sure I bored orthogonal holes in my workbench top, so I made a guide block with my drill press in the way that Jeff Burks (and many others) recommends. I marked the guide block with...

When I drawbored my workbench and saw those same little crescents around the pegs (caused by the leverage on the peg as it passes through the offset in the tenon), I concealed it by driving the peg...

Or, if the tenon is wide enough for a double drawbore, as is sometimes the case, leave the pin in one of the holes while driving the peg through the other.

Well, I wasn't looking for a use for it, but I found one. I was trimming the shoulders on the stub tenons for the long stretchers of my workbench, and found that the medium LN shoulder plane would...

...that was going to turn out to be an obviously dumb thought. I did take the time to look at pictures of split nuts and saw bolts on various sites, and noted that the ones I looked at used a flat...

What about leaving them in? Do they really need to be out in order to do what you want to do next? If you have the bolts out, you can remove the plate, right?

I got a pair from Phil Koontz and Jake Pogrebinsky in Galena AK. The email exchange was almost worth the cost by itself, but I put a high premium on originality in character. :) These pictures will...

Rod,
People often complain that things were better "before." You know, "you should've been here yesterday," whether fishing, or getting in on the ground floor with Google or Microsoft (either as a...

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Rob,
The pleasure is all mine. I actually held back a little in what I wrote this afternoon, for fear of being revealed as too wide-eyed, as well as too...

In the package I received today with the Veritas mini shoulder plane, I also found its big daddy, the large shoulder. While that experience is still fresh in my mind, I just need to say: Wow! Lee...

UPS brought mine an hour or so ago and I already put it to use. Turns out to be a good tool for smoothing the cavity for a BenchCrafted wagon vise. A hollow plane would be better, of course, but...

I am quite happy with what Mark Harrell at technoprimitives.com did with my saws. His rehab prices are posted on his site here: http://www.technoprimitives.com/saw_sharpening__restoration_services
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Well, the tool that is in England right now that I most covet is a moving fillister from Phil Edwards. It's offered on his website for 195 pounds. At least once a week I click on that page and then...

Hi, Mark
Nice to see you on Sawmill Creek. Your saws precede you here.

I see now that my parenthetical remark about 14" saws appearing in October was a little catty. I think you're doing a good...

I thought some pictures might be interesting. Mark's technoprimitives.com site has way better photos of his saws, but here's William Davis's J&I Taylor 12" carcass saw, post-restoration by Mark, now...

Thanks for the kind words, David. I had to restrain myself from getting two saws at once from Mark a second time. It would've been an 18" rip and a 16" cross. I thought the 18" would have more...

I've been enjoying my new Bad Axe 16" 11ppi rip saw for a couple of weeks now. Because I developed a good email relationship with Mark Harrell, the Bad Axe creator, over the last several months, I...