Ed

Continuing on from Craig’s nice instructions…..complete the ferule replacement, use the chisel for a couple of months until the weather changes, the handles shrink a bit from from drying out, and then see the new ferules loosen up and fall off. Repeat as needed. :- ). The ferules all fell off of the handles I made for my lathe tools. I…[Read more]

Yes, shavings will sometimes cling to me. I don’t think about it much any more and just scoop shavings from the mouth and flick them aside, often on each (return) stroke. With a good flick, they just fall to the floor, but sometimes one will be especially clingy, especially it seems with light shavings. I’d develop your flick rather than anything…[Read more]

You may need a longer clamp to reach the bottom of the apron than the bottom of a 3″ benchtop, but you could still clamp things. Where you may have a limitation is how deeply you can reach into the bench with a clamp because of the apron thickness. My benchtop has a few inches of overhang, maybe 3, and that determines how deeply I can reach into…[Read more]

I’ve found that pushing the chip breaker very close to the edge of the iron to be helpful for dealing with this sort of thing. Also, using circular strokes around the problematic area, like you see Paul do on end grain, can help. Finally, it seems like a wipe of denatured alcohol helps, but only for a few moments after application. I really can’t…[Read more]

The search function is the weakest element of the site. On the other hand, they seem to allow Google to index their pages, so if you go to Google and add site:woodworkingmasterclasses.com after your search terms, you can find often find stuff (whether you subscribe to WWMC or not).

My #3 is one of my favorite, most used planes. If you are making a surface look nice rather than making a surface suitable for joinery, it is nice to have a shorter, narrower, plane that will take a shaving when the wider, longer, #4 is riding up on the peaks above the blemish you want to remove.

Scrub planes are wonderful, but an issue can be…[Read more]

I’m having a bit of a hard time “seeing” what I’m looking at in his diagrams

You’ll need to double check, but he uses a technique in which he establishes rabbets and arrises to guide the rounds and hollows. Look at the six diagrams at the top of that page, the ones in light purple.

The three on the left show how the concave round is made. I…[Read more]

I looked into air filtration units, but very few gave me confidence in their air flow rating or filtration level. A quick look at the AFS-1000B , for example, doesn’t yield the particle size vs. filtration efficiency. In the end, I built one from a furnace blower and two filters from the hardware store for which I knew the MERV rating, one a 4″…[Read more]