I like a challenge, which is exactly what I got when my latest job arrived in the workshop!
Continue readingI like a challenge, which is exactly what I got when my latest job arrived in the workshop!
Continue readingThe next job on the list was a restoration, this time a Victorian blanket box.
Continue readingIt’s been a long time since I last posted, so I thought it would be a good time to catch everyone up with what has been happening. And there’s definitely been a lot happening!
Continue readingSometimes a piece of timber talks to you, and you know exactly what you want to build with it. This is kind of like that.
Continue readingIn case you hadn’t guessed by now, I quite like restoring hand tools. So when a friend of a friend asked me to restore her Record 05 1/2 jack plane I jumped at the chance.
Continue readingA delivery driver I’ve known for a good while came and found me the other day whilst I was doing my day job. He had been talking to a colleague who mentioned that I was a furniture maker, which I can’t believe he didn’t know because it’s all I ever
Continue readingA great little job came into the workshop the other day, a travel chest or steamer trunk that needed some fixing up
Continue readingMy girlfriend, Janie, is also a furniture maker, and until her recent relocation to new premises she shared shop space in a large workshop with several other craftspeople. One of them was a bladesmith, and he had an old woodworking bench that he wanted to clear out
Continue readingI wrote in a previous post that the favourite hand plane I own is my Rapier 3 plough plane, made by the Anglo Scottish Corporation in Gateshead, England, and based on the Record 043 plough plane.
Continue readingI’ve been doing a lot of dovetails recently, and although I’m happy with the technique I use for making them, I’ve never been happy with the tools I’ve used. Or, more specifically, the coping saw I use to cut out the waste.
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