Philip Adams

Paul uses a 9″ Eclipse Quick Release Vise in this series. More questions are answered in the Workbench FAQ: https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/workbench-faq/

Hello Blaine. Couple of options that Paul recommends. You could make a slot for a screwdriver using two hacksaw blades in the same hacksaw to make a wide enough groove. Otherwise you could file a flat on the […]

Paul recommended the following: “Maybe elongate the strokes rather than taking short strokes. And press on the heel rather than the fore part of the plane. You’ll develop your own technique.”

Sorry for the confusion. You do indeed chop the ends of the mortise at the corresponding angle to the sliding bevel mark. Not much of an angle though. Hope that helps.

The episodes of the workbench drawer will be coming out weekly on Fridays.

Hello Gregory, have you spotted the initial drawings linked to above the description? That should have all the information you need.

A simple method that uses the tools you probably have at hand is that you can mark it with a pencil or gauge, cut the extremes with a saw and chisel out the waste with a relevant width chisel. This is probably […]

Hello Tim,
I just checked and it is indeed 3/4″ stock.
Best, Phil

Hello Jim,
All looks fine this end. Sounds like a streaming problem. Our video provider tends to try and play at higher quality than YouTube. Sometimes manually controlling or lowering the quality of playback […]

It was indeed. Glad you enjoyed it.

Hi Sven-Olaf
I think that is certainly worth keeping an eye on and could be a challenge. Grinding a plough plane iron and chisel to width can be an option, but as you mention there may still be variation. I think […]

The next episode will pick up where this left off. There are a few more episodes to come that will be released weekly until the drawer is fully fitted.

There will be 8 episodes.

You certainly could make it without the plywood tenons. Paul did feel that they add structural integrity. Sven-Olaf, I think that comment is more for ply on ply mortise and tenons, whereas this has ply mortises […]

We recently released a guide on our other site: https://commonwoodworking.com/sharpening-a-router-plane/