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I'm building a tool chest with dovetailed panels. Each panel, since being glued up from 3/4" pine, has developed a bow, more or less. I expected this, and its not that big a deal to me, though I...

I made this panel gauge when I decided to go the neander route. Its made of white oak, about 3ft long, and uses a drill bit ground to a point. I set it using my folding rule, and knock the wedge home...

...for cutting:

1" - 3" wide boards to finished length?

4" - 6" wide boards to finished length?

6" - 9" wide boards to finished length?

10" and wider boards to finished length?

So that the edge of the quartersawn board is facing up?

Chris, you make good points. My current bench is made of laminated 2x yellow pine; its 4 inches thick. It has been very stable. The problem is I want a English/Nicholson bench, and my current bench...

Thanks for all the responses.

A clarification: it is soft maple that is available to me.

I like the idea of using the quartersawn pieces from the slab and gluing them together. I'll let the...

It is possible for me to get a single piece of maple, 30" wide, 2 1/4" think, 8' long for use as my new English style workbench top. The piece will be bone dry...dried in a vacuum press kiln. Is...

That's a good idea. I made a cutter with a junk jigsaw blade for my Benjamin Seaton-based marking gauge. It works well. I just ground it on my bench grinder to a fingernail shape and secured it with...

This is a panel gauge I built. I chucked an extra drill bit in my drill press, turned it on, held a file to the end and shaped it into a pin. It could probably be ground into a cutter on the bench...

Now that I'm using hand tools almost exclusively, I'm getting frustrated with my waterstones. I bought waterstones originally because all the magazines said so. When using a router to cut a mortise,...

What a great question! Thanks for asking. To answer your question, I have to give you a little history.

Since about the time of Pope Gregory the Great, c. 5th century, the Catholic liturgy was...

I have a friend who is a Roman Catholic priest. On March 19, he will celebrate
a traditional Latin Mass for the feast of St. Joseph. He purchased altar cards, but didn't have any frames for them....

We have a baby on the way, and I want to build him or her a cradle. Of the antique cradles I have found, I like the ones with the splayed front, back and sides, joined with through dovetails. Can...

Easier now; at the computer...

Tony,

I had the soft maple lying around doing nothing, and not much of it at that. The cradle is redwood, scraps from a minor exterior trim project from a few...

The idea for this came from Making and Mastering Wooden Planes by David Finck. You could probably find a piece of heavy duty tupperware with a decent rim around it, make a cradle like mine, and dado...

I built this thing because my previous setup left me way too much of a mess, and setting the stone up was too much work. I enjoy working wood; sharpening needs to be fast and painless.

A piece of...

Does anybody know how to secure the iron in the router plane? No wedge came with it and there is no hole for a thumb screw. There is space on either side of the iron.

David,

Thanks. After reading what you wrote, I grabbed the thing like it was a marking knife and it felt right. So I sharpened it up. But, is this a left-hander's? Its not double beveled.
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What a deal at the flea market today.

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Purely a guess —I don't have any experience with molding or joinery planes— but could it be for sliding dovetails used in casework?

Pro sit.

Latin for "May it be of benefit."

Thanks. "Letting the wood speak for itself" was not something that even crossed my mind. This project started by being a practice subject for thicknessing boards by hand and dovetails. It just kinda...

I'm too familiar with that. Then I moved on to a piece of rubber on the bench top, but it would inevitably run off. Hopefully, the mess with my new setup will just run down the sides of the cradle...

This is one of my first projects since re-entering the woodworking hobby. I used to be exclusively a user of power tools. But I was just stinking sick of the noise, dust and space requirements....