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I'm guessing it's more common nowadays to use Saya nomi for making saya's for kitchen knives than for swords due to sales volume. The higher end kitchen knives with honyaki or kitaeji finishes are...

I asked Don Williams about the lack of gouges, moulding planes, and other hand tools that would have been used to make the tool cabinet and he surmised that the cabinet was not the only source of...

I am interested in one as well!

The sword steel was Chuttaro Imai's chisels. Although she no longer has her business/website, however I did email her about couple of years ago and bought a set of sword steel paring push chisels...

I had a bench with the twin-screw vise, and personally, I hated the thing. Cursed at for over 5 years. Now it may have not been installed correctly, so I'm not blaming LV or the quality, but the...

I love my Knew concepts fret saw. Best fret saw i have ever used. I have a half-dozen near-useless coping/fret saws now. Only improvement to the Knew saw would be to make/provide a better wooden...

Regardless of being labeled, I own and use a Holtey 98.. However, this was bought back in 2001 I think when prices were "more" reasonable and the dollar far stronger. Like all my tools, it's a tool...

I like the cubby idea, although it won't work for my larger planes. I guess I could keep them mounted vertically as it's a bit easier than a coffin or parallel sided smoother.

Glenn

I currently use some drawers and shelves above my workbench to store my planes and chisels, but it's getting a bit disorganized and crowded. I'm about to mock up a tool cabinet and was wondering how...

I stopped using gorilla glue after my benchtop started delaminating a bit here and there. Another benchtop made a year later using the same construction techniques and yellow glue is still perfect. ...

Ahh.. Felder is made exclusively in Austria. Some BMW's are made in Munich. Many come from other factories in USA (spartanburg), Brazil, or elsewhere.

Looks like Felder is having another...

I had a 16" Hammer Jointer/Planer and it was absolutely wonderful. I agree that if you have the room and the budget that a separate j/p machines would be ideal. The combo machines are definitely...

Hi Rich,

I have the Collins coping foot on my bosch jigsaw. I left it on there since I have other jigsaws. The demos at the woodworking shows make it looks so easy, but I can never seem to get...

Hey Bill,

I think the Pm66 is a great saw, I had one for awhile. I added the Laguna slider to it and wondered why I didn't add it on sooner. You should take a look at Felder booth at the...

Man, I wish I had all that space, 5000 sq ft. in fact, I think your shop is larger than my entire plot of land that my tiny house sits on...

Bob,

I have the same band saw and same base I got from Jesse. The vega base is stable while not being moved around, however the Vega with the lifting bar isn't a very good mobile base to...

I'm currently using the Hitachi 72 teeth blade that came with my saw as a freebie from Amazon, works quite well. I haven't used it enough to give it definite thumbs up over the 12" chopmaster I had...

A very popular wood used in many of the traditional temples in Japan is Hinoki. Known here in the states as Port Orford Cedar. Many of the logs in the Pacific Northwest are cut and sent to Japan. ...