So, this video is taking longer than usual and I wanted to post an update. Here's the plane in a semi-kind-of-roughed-out state. All the parts are here, but there's a lot of work to do.
Here s...
2018-03-21 00:37:19 +0000 UTC View PostSo, my prototype shooting plane is coming along pretty well. I've got the angle and basic construction worked out. I made a new kind of lever-cap by laminating aluminum and walnut together and I...
2018-03-18 22:42:38 +0000 UTC View Post
So, to get ready for my upcoming collaboration with Wood by Wright, I just finished a complete plane iron, made totally at home with basic tools. I only spent about $10 on steel and the iron is as har...
2018-03-15 01:24:01 +0000 UTC View Post
So this, believe it or not, is a heat-treat forge. I made it out of a mapp-gas torch and the most random colle...
2018-03-11 20:26:33 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I'm hoping everyone takes this in the spirit of fun and good humor. This video is about keeping your shop purchases secret from your spouse. The tips I present are real and I have to admit that I'...
2018-03-07 17:05:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been another interesting week.
My sawstop video went just about viral and has over 125k views as I write this. My subscribers doubled and I'm getting a nice check from YouTube.
Desp...
2018-03-07 01:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends,
Here's the last part in my smoothing plane build. Hilariously, this was supposed to be a single, 20 minute video. Instead, it's a three-part monster that clocks in at almost an hour. <...
2018-02-28 14:25:11 +0000 UTC View Post
So, it's been a week. I cut my finger on my saw, I fell through my basement steps, and some kid threw up on my daughter at school. On top of that, I do run a custom furniture business and my customers...
2018-02-24 10:12:15 +0000 UTC View PostFriends:
It's been a week. As most of you know, I had a table-saw injury on Monday. It wasn't that bad, but I spent the day in the emergency room, got x-rays and 4 stitches, and I have to see ...
2018-02-21 00:31:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends:
It's been a week. On Monday, I sliced my thumb wide-open on my table-saw. I had to go the emergency room, stitches, x-rays, the whole nine yards. I'm out of the shop for a week while I heal...
2018-02-15 18:36:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, after a LOT of experimentation, I've got a plane design and a blade that both work. This video covers making a REAL iron from quality steel. I also go over the design considerations and construc...
2018-02-15 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week’s video on the $2 plane iron is doing well on youtube. It’s racking up views and I’ve gotten a nice bump in subscribers.
I wish I could say the iron itself was doi...
2018-02-14 19:57:46 +0000 UTC View Post
This last weekend, my neighbor across the street called and asked if I wanted any of the old wood in his basement. All the houses on my block are about 100 years old and some of them ha...
2018-02-12 11:43:22 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s ugly.
I know.
But it also works. It works surprisingly well, and I...
2018-02-09 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I make things for a local kitchen shop. It’s a good deal for both of us since they mostly specialize in knives and they need other things to fill out their stock. So I turn bowl...
2018-02-06 11:35:28 +0000 UTC View Post
One week early for all my Patrons: I try to make a plane iron out of a lawn-edger blade. Did it work? Maybe. Am I going to keep experimenting with tool-making? You bet!
2018-02-02 02:05:21 +0000 UTC View Post
My videos on buying and restoring vintage tools are pretty popular, but I do hear one complaint a lot: "That's a very nice video, but you just can't find cheap old tools where I live. They either don'...
2018-01-25 11:49:19 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a term that’s been bouncing around for a while now: “hybrid woodworking.” I don’t know if he coined the term, but Marc Spagnuolo defined the idea in his book Hybrid Wo...
2018-01-22 12:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post
One week early for patrons only: my comparison of two vintage Stanley planes. One is from 1890 and one is from 1950. The older one is considered superior and is more collectible, but does that make an...
2018-01-18 17:14:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons get early access to this video before I post it on Thursday. From now on, Patrons will get access to all YouTube content a full week early. Enjoy!
2018-01-18 01:21:08 +0000 UTC View PostReclaimed wood seems to be getting more and more popular, at least as a marketing term. In catalogs and advertisements, it suggests authenticity. If your wood used to be the floor of a 19th century fi...
2018-01-16 11:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post
If you don't know Lost Art Press, they're the publishing imprint started
by Chris Schwarz, former Managing Editor of Popular Woodworking magazine. The press mostly exists to re-print old ...
2018-01-15 12:55:42 +0000 UTC View Post