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It looks like no one wants to buy the entire collection, so I'm offering them for sale individually. Prices are below....

I'm selling six Lost Art Press books in one lot. I do not want to separate them. Buyer pays shipping, and I'll work with you to figure out the most affordable shipping option.

Price is $150 firm....

I know Adirondack chairs aren't very exciting, but my wife wants a couple Here's my question: flat back or curved? Looks like the traditional ones have flat/straight backs, whereas more modern ones...

What would be the fun of that? Just kidding. I sawed up a hickory for firewood on Sunday and I'm hankering to split up a couple of pieces and make something out of green wood. I'm going to rough in...

So I have this little hewing hatchet, and it needs a new handle. I figured I'd make one instead of buying one, and since I have a hickory in my yard that's about to come down and I'm planning to rive...

The wife and I are moving into a new house in a few weeks. It has a massive covered back porch right off the kitchen/dining area, and I plan to use it as an extension of our dining area.

I want...

I can't see my pencil lines on walnut, and sometimes I can't see the dang knife lines. What should I be using instead of a pencil and to highlight my knife line? Chalk?

One local seller just emailed me some info. Said some of the wood "has little worm holes" in it. Is that something I don't want to bring into my garage? it makes me nervous.

Several folks around my parts have posted lumber for sale on local online classifieds. Typically, they had the trees cut and sawed on their property and then stacked the boards in a barn. Now, 20 or...

I think it has to do with the "other" three edges. Remember, a saw file is a six-sided file: the three obvious flat faces and the narrow edges. The really small files have much finer edges, I guess...

Do you guys think the going rate for handsaws and back saws is a little high these days? I guess I'm mostly referring to eBay prices, but it seems to me like there's a lot of competition for these...

So on Saturday I went back to the store that had the plane that sparked the initial post for this thread. I've rethought my original evaluation of the tool. It's salvagable, but it's missing the iron...

Hey Marty, I'm aware of that issue with tape measures, and it's the first thing I checked. But that actually isn't my problem. If I compare any 12-inch segment on the tape to any 12-inch segment on...

I've been on a bit of a thread-posting tear lately, so I'm keeping it flowing here.

You ever check your measuring devices against one another for accuracy/consistency?

I learned to do this the...

Thanks for the replies. Regarding the original plane questions, what's right and what's not is hard to say, given that everyone does things a little different than the rest, but I think I'm handling...

To expedite the process of soliciting free woodworking advice, I decided to combine two questions into one post:

About hand planes ....
When I use my vintage Stanleys, if I ever back the iron off...

My first thought was that it'd make a nice scrub plane, but I think if I find one I'll use it as a jack/smoothing type hybrid. I've got plans to build a wooden scrub.

Rick, I didn't buy the plane. Decided it was too far gone for me. I'm burned out on major tool restorations. I enjoy a basic clean-up, tuneup and some fiddling to get an old tool back in primo...

I stopped at a little flea market type place the other day. It's the kind of place that buys out estates and then resells all the junk...I mean, stuff.

I found a box of odd and end tool parts,...

Anyone have photos or simple tips for how to glue miters without them slipping?

I recently built a really basic small shelf for above my workbench, and I wrapped the front edge and both ends with...

I like to saw with the piece held vertically in the vice. Sometimes I end up finishing the cut kneeling or squatting, which is a little weird maybe but works for me. I prefer this method to the...

The polishing I had in mind for tools was not for the edge, but for the body of the tool. I wanted to make one of my drawknives gleam. That's not my normal restoration procedure, but I figured why...

Three questions. Perhaps they aren't strictly neanderthal questions, but as I've said in the past, you all seem to work wood in the same manner as me, and so I feel like I get the most applicable...

I'm thinking of buy and/or building a couple wood-body planes. What are your favorite kinds?

Krenov?

tapered blade without cap iron?

non-tapered blade with cap iron?

Something else?

I will check the frog. Honestly, I'm always nervous about touching a file, stone or sandpaper to the frog, for fear I might cause it to be out of flat or make it worse.

Here's another question for...