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A Quick Visit at the Hardware Shop to Buy a Hand Tool (Phillips Screwdriver) for My Electric Fan!

Owning appliances comes with big responsibilities, from cleaning to maintaining them, or, in the worstcase scenario, fixing them too. To be honest, I only help Mom

The joy of working with hand tools

One of the (few) long-lasting benefits of having a secondary modern school education was being taught woodworking and metalwork skills. My grandfather had a shed

What a tool

If you spend any time on social media you'll get the idea that to be a successful woodworker you have to use hand tools. You get the idea you have to do things by

Spanners: 10 Most Common Types

The spanner is a common hand tool used to tighten or loosen fasteners like nuts and bolts. They offer a tighter grip and amplify the mechanical pressure in applying

Small Router Plane Build Part 4 - YouTube

Just cutting up some brass inserts ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Small Router Plane Build Part 2

HANDWORK magazine will be released by the end of June. For those who don't know I've started a magazine for hand tool woodworkers. It will be available on my blog

Small Router Plane Build Part 3

I thought I lost these videos which is why I haven't uploaded anything new. Issue V of handwork was released today, you can download this and all other issues for

Issue V Release 2 Days to go!

I know its taken a long time but it's finally done. Issue V is ready and will be available to download at midnight on Saturday 13, 2018 and yes it is FREE to download.

Issue V almost done

First of all, my sincere apologies for taking so long, but you can appreciate the enormity of work involved in producing a magazine like “The Lost Scrolls of Handwork”.

I made another bowsaw

This one is for detail work Signed it with a little inlay The frame is sycamore and the handles are koa.

How to bore dead centre of your mortise

Chopping is time consuming when creating a mortise, which is why I prefer to bore with my brace and bit. But isn't it annoying and downright shameful when you can't

Dolls Cradle Project for Issue V of the The Lost Scrolls of HANDWORK Magazine

This is the cradle I plan on building again for Issue V. The dolls cradle in the picture is for my niece and a prototype. The beauty with this cradle is that it's

ENTHUSIASM VERSUS APATHY

BY JOHN RUSKIN 1901 To ensure enthusiasm of good workmanship mong craftsmen, they must be relieved of the hard pressure of circumstance. They must neither be pressed

Adding The Decorative Features Part 7

Adding The Decorative Features Part 6

Adding The Decorative Features Part 5

Adding The Decorative Features Part 4

Adding The Decorative Features Part 3

Adding the decorative features Part 2

Wood Changing Color With Age

Back in December I turned a little bowl from a branch of African Sumac that I found. Fresh cut, the wood is really pale. The bowl has been sitting on my wife’s desk