Ladle: Episode 3
This is the last third of making a substantial kitchen utensil from solid hardwood. It’s a lifetime kitchen tool designed to develop your carving and shaping skills with substantive insight into how we must learn to work our wood.
How To Make The World’s Best Router Plane: Episode 2
In this final episode, we go all the way from creating the handles to making the cutting iron and the retainer bar, installing the components, and finishing the plane with a shellac finish.
How To Make The World’s Best Router Plane: Episode 1
This episode is Paul’s answer to a worldwide problem of supply and demand and he guarantees that you will not only love making your own, fully adjustable router plane, but also owning one for a lifetime of work.
How To Make The World’s Best Router Plane
Can a homemade wooden router plane give you what an all-metal one gives you? It absolutely can! We guarantee it!
How to Make a Raised Faceted Star
Making decorative inlays can seem daunting, and knowing just where to start can be obscured. Paul put this together as an inlay for you to begin inlaying yourself using any wood you have in your workspace. Enjoy!
How To Set Up And Use A Bullnose Plane
This little-used terrier of a plane has many different uses, not the least of which is the final fitting of awkward to reach places.
How To Use A Shooting Board
If you have never used a shooting board for squaring up the ends of wood and finalising rough-cut mitres, you are in for a treat.
Marking Gauges
This is a long episode so, prepare yourself with some snacks and a drink or two. Paul had a lot of fun filming this himself, alongside making several gauges in tandem.
Plane Front Knob
Don’t have a lathe, lathe tools, or lathe turning skills? You can turn the knob for your bench plane using hand tool methods.
Plane Tote
Creating a new handle for your bench plane is one of those rites of passage every woodworker should go through, and this will likely be the first time you will see it done using hand tools.