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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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,…
Not so long ago I took apart my bow saw to transport it and when I reassembled it and put tension back on -
SNAP !
; (
Damn…
always right in the middle of a project.
Well, I better fix it.
It went something like this.
it’s been pretty busy around the wood shop and i’m getting closer and closer to some new projects i’m looking forward to sharing with everyone -
something soon i hope !
from saw benches to wood classes, magazine articles and new CD promotion followed with another wave of wood classes and magazine articles and new…
Hey Tom,
This last summer (of 2010), I purchased your book “Made By Hand”, and found it to be quite inspirational. You see, I had just begun a cabinet-making and joinery apprenticeship through a technical trade school. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at school, but as I entered the field, I found there to be a prejudice against working wood by hand. If there was some form of…
Bad Axe Tool Works in La Crosse, Wisconsin makes some of the finest back saws on the market today and I’m very pleased to introduce the latest offering. A 12″ dovetail saw; yup that’s right, I said a twelve-inch dovetail saw. Some may prefer to…
