Glue

One of the tools I use regularly is glue. It pays to know as much about this stuff as you can. After squandering a fortune on wood and forming it into a useful shape, it is really lame to have the glue joints go bad.

One big isssue is that glue may prevent you from […]

Hand Tool Jigs

At one time I had a shop full of jigs. Half of them, I couldn’t even remember what they where for. You set up a jig, make a bunch of electrons run around through wires and make a bunch of identical cuts. Weeee! Then you save the pretty much useless monstrosity of clamping tracks and […]

User Comment Spam

Until you run a blog, there is an entire family of spam you never see. Stuff with pages of links to all the stuff they normally spam you on are common. In any case they have links that lead back to sites you really don’t want to see. Often they compliment your site mastery, wisdom, […]

Ujukitsu!

About four years ago I got some Ujukitsu fruit from a farmers market in downtown Houston. In case you have never tasted this delightful citrus, imagine perfect lemonade.

The only sources I have been able to find have been independent growers. The last thing I want to do is risk bringing a citrus disease into […]

Japanese Plane Making Tools

I had some good instructions on making a dai, the wooden part of a Japanese plane. Sadly I can’t find it right now. It has the layout lines quite detailed. Then again, what I am looking for is the layout of a skew rabbet. I am copying one that I have, but I would love […]