I have gotten wonderful ideas, and oddly enough, training from many different sources. I have never met Derek in person, but he has been a Mentor to me none the less. I have copied ideas from him, been inspired by him, and taught by him. He is a regular on WoodNet, and his Website offers […]
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I love old tools. A lot of these old guys have survived a total change in the world and are still useful. One of the important questions, is how to preserve, restore and protect these wonderful links to our past. My approach is to get data from the extreme ends of the spectrum. One fairly […] I got a garden cart kit from the North Houston Woodcraft store. They had one put together, and it moved perfectly, really quite manuverable, so I was quite interested, the box was open, so I started to count the parts. The salesmen assured me they had looked over the parts, it was all intact, and […] This is one of the least common and most useful, simple planes, This is a pretty simple tool. all you need is a plane blade, such as you can get at most hardware stores. You don’t need a rare earth magnet this big. Two or three glued into drilled holes on the bottom […] This is an old time tool called an OWT. Old womans tooth. It was what woodworkers used to clean out gouges and the like. Basically and old time router. I made this one to use a chisel, so it took up less room int the tool box. Here it is with the chisel set […] |
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