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11 Uses for Useless Scrap Wood
Click to play Tiny Wood Scraps, Big ImpactWe all have scrap wood piling up in a corner of the workshop somewhere. Over the years I have found ways to repurpose those into useful items in my own shop....
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Lessons Learned from a Viseless Workbench
Click to play Workbench Vises Get In the WayI built this Nicholson style workbench a few years back as part of a beginning woodworker semester at The Hand Tool School I call Orientation. This...
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5 Exercises to Improve Hand Sawing
Click to play Improve Hand Sawing by Just Sawing MoreOK maybe that is oversimplifying a bit too much. A bit of focused work is a more effective way to improve hand sawing. Really though the average...
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Making a Marquetry Photo Box
Click to play Marquetry Accents Make the BoxSeen one hand made box and you've seen them all right? What better way to personalize it than with a bit of marquetry. The marquetry photo box was built...
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Top 3 Tips to Tame Hand Plane Tear Out
Click to play Sharpen, Tighten the Mouth, Chipbreaker Nothing groundbreaking here other than a focus on making it work with the tool you have in hand other than a need to buy additional tools or...
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Read the End Grain to Determine Planing Direction
Click to play Edge Grain Isn't Always Correct I have had many boards where reading the edge grain told me to plane one way and the tear out told me I should plane the other way. I've also run into...
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The 3 Principles of Hand Sawing
Click to play Follow these 3 Things to Improve EVERY saw cut I love hand sawing. I think it is THE MOST IMPORTANT hand skill to master. But it freaks a lot of woodworkers out and creates...
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The Physics of Woodworking
Click to play Understand the Why and the Woodworking is the Easy Part I'm back with another tease from The Hand Tool School vault of lessons. This is an excerpt from an "Office Hours" live broadcast...
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Sawing Outside Your Knife Line
Click to play Frame & Panel and Bridle Joints Benefit from Leaving the Line I'm back with another tease from The Hand Tool School vault of lessons. This is an excerpt from a series I call...
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Let the Shape of the Shaving Be Your Guide
Click to play Keep the Plane Mouth Clear Certainly keeping the mouth of the plane clear will prevent it from clogging. But it also allows you to observe the shape of the shaving. The location of the...
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