I’m 5’10” and I like my bench to be 37″ tall. Paul has written quite a bit about it. Here is what I can remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJHrSmZQx10 https://paulsellers.com/2013/05/the-question-of-bench-heights/ https://paulsellers.com/2012/10/the-long-and-short-of-bench-heights/…
…and you will understand when you can use the leather rough side up with compound or smooth side up without. I would use the former coming from a 1200-4000 grit…
…1993, then Record Tools Ltd. once more in 1998 when it became part of the American Tool Company. The company has been owned by Irwin Industrial Tool Co. since 2008….
…on Lumberjocks about air filtration. http://lumberjocks.com/topics/5926. There is some comparison of collectors and some info on making your own. Two final thoughts. First, I also recommend using a face mask…
…because I wanted to try my old bar of Flexcut Gold compound again, mainly out of curiosity. My old strop was thick, hard leather and Veritas green compound. I also…
Hello fellow woodworkers, I have made (a few now) strops that don’t seem to hold my compound very well. I’m wondering if I could be doing something better or if…
…nobody takes the trouble to do that, then they complain. I never see sets for sale where people took the trouble. None of the combination planes have a sole ahead…
John, Saw handle templates are available here: http://www.blackburntools.com/ and tgiag.com Yours looks to be a Disston D4 Look in the Saw Handle Template Library for yours at tgiag.com There’s a…
…his poor man’s router plane using a chisel: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B_2a_FwjAgk https://paulsellers.com/2012/06/pauls-poor-mans-router/ Stumpy Nubs also makes one using the cutters from a routing plane, although it looked a bit more involved: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ufDd8Oh4WLY…
…new bench around how I found I tended to work comfortably. The same for height. Paul advocates a tall bench, and I think taller is more comfortable for the kind…