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Part of the joy and pain of working with hand tools is being forced to be selective in the wood you use. Even in my hobbyist experience and as anyone who has built even a single project with hand tools will know, one swipe of the plane in the wrong direction with some nasty grain and…

I had had enough of our tiny black metal ikea bedside tables. They were too low, too small, and the grating metal dinging and clanging every morning and evening had driven me to the edge, never mind the fact that I could barely fit one book and my iPhone on top. This one had been on…

From the limited coverage I’ve seen about the transitional planes online, I never had very high hopes for them nor actively sought them out like the Bailey metal-bodied planes. I do think they look cool and retro but in the end, watch any woodworking teacher or maker online and you’d think they never existed in…

Cutting boards are a simple idea – a few strips glued together to make a panel, preferably flattened, with perhaps some shaping and design to make it look like it’s not just a piece of wood. I’ve made quite a few of these pieces-of-wood-glued-together-to-make-a-bigger-piece-of-woods, and in reality the process has been surprisingly complex. I want…