Larry | February 22, 2010
I’ve been a blogger for a bit more than a year. I never thought of it as a money-making venture and, in fact, it’s lived up to those expectations. But if you’re on the Internet you can’t help but notice that there are lots of people making, or at least claiming to make, lots of [...]
Larry | January 15, 2010
“The venerable woodworker stood, trembling – looking into the abyss of his ‘to be wood plane.’ What he saw scared him speechless – no cross-pin.”
Yes, this is where the last post, part one of this saga, ended. Finck actually warns you to remember to install the cross-pin during glue up and I was so proud [...]
Larry | January 14, 2010
Sometimes my buying habits are embarrassing. At last count I owned 4 books and a DVD on how to build wooden planes. I have a Hock blade for making a chisel plane, bought as a “response” to the Fine Woodworking construction article. I have a Hock blade/chip breaker, bought shortly after I bought David Finck’s [...]
Larry | January 5, 2010
Tom Fidgen’s new book, Made By Hand has become my constant companion, at least that’s how it seems. It’s the closest I’ll get to an apprenticeship with a woodworker who works in ways I want to work.
One of the things I’ve noticed is that Tom is a much better woodworker than I am. The natural [...]
Larry | December 16, 2009
If you’ve been following my blog you know that one of my current projects is a hanging cabinet that will house a spoon collection. I’m at the fiddly stage. All the basic construction is done and I’m dealing with hinging, wall mounts bracketry, door magnets – the fiddly things. In many ways this is the [...]
Larry | December 3, 2009
A few days ago I posted a description of energy expenditure, by me, to produce a plane hammer for adjusting wooden planes. In that post I joked that maybe if I created such a hammer I could adjust wooden planes as well as Bob Roziaeski, who is quite good at it. I admitted that [...]
Larry | December 2, 2009
I have an itch. It needs to be scratched. The source of my itch is the woodworker who recommends to every newbie that they run out and buy a jointer, planer, and table saw BECAUSE, until they do they can’t work with unfinished lumber and/or create furniture. People who say these things are unfettered by [...]
Larry | November 24, 2009
A couple eagle-eye tool aficionados asked me about the hand plane that showed up in a couple recent posts. Several years ago I bought it via eBay, not really knowing what I was getting. Do you know how, if you have lemons, you’re supposed to make lemonade? I made lemonade.
All I can say for sure [...]
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