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Travel La Crosse

Bad Axe open house

My eight year old son has surgery this week- nothing too serious but something I wouldn’t miss for the world. As it turns out, if I was able to travel this week, it would be to La Crosse, Wisconsin. My friend, Mark Harrell at Bad…

Miter mak’r…

A vintage miter-box restoration.

I love old hand tools.(Hell, I like the new ones too!) But the antiques and vintage lot always seem to have a bit more of a story to tell. Maybe that comes with age? This past summer, my Uncle (Wipper) asked me if I wanted…

Crosscut saw to Rip wood?

A cross cut saw that rips a 36", 2" thick plank of walnut? Only from Bad Axe Tool Works.

So earlier this week I was working away in the wood shop and dimensioning some big planks of 2″ walnut for the second project in my book. I had just finished cross cutting the 13″ wide behemoth when my son yelled down with some pertinent…

Scrub Plane or Rip Saw?

shavings or veneer?

I’m often asked about using a Scrub plane to remove material in a hurry or when I choose to saw away the waste instead. ” too much to plane and not enough to saw…” Where do you draw the line? How much material can you…

Bent Laminations and the Path of Least Resistance

Introducing the Kerfing plane

In my last post I made a coopered door for a new cabinet I’m building. The design features two curved doors, the one coopered and the other a bent lamination and mirror image, although taller version of the first. ( coopered on left hand side…

Cross Cuts

happy bang 7

so yeah, the timber… Canadian Salvaged Timber to my own back yard. two cross cuts, no big deal, what? 20 minutes work…make it 35. I wasn’t doing anything anyway. ; ) happy Bang 7 ~ peace out.

THE Dovetail Saw

From Bad Axe Tool Works

If you’ve been reading my blog here you already know the Bad Axe dovetail saws have been in the works for the past year or so and it’s no secret Mark Harrell and I have been fans of each others work for a few years now. If you click through the ‘Hand Saws’ tab over there in the sidebar you’ll find…

To the Teeth…

in the hand saw valley

This week I’m shipping saws and receiving saws, some for review and some for wood class work and student aids. I’ve been teaching sawing techniques this week and last, ( thanks again Dave ), reading about saw design through history and into more recent years,…