Rob Cosman is a well known Canadian ‘hand tool coach’ offering DVD’s and books on wood working for the past 10 years or more. When it comes to sawing dovetails he’s absolutely incredible. I’ve watched pretty much all of his videos and can honestly say…
Over the past few weeks I’ve been surprised at how many new hand tool manufacturers are popping up on the Internet and all of the well known manufacturers are offering new and exciting product. This is nice but I’m sometimes weary…it either takes someone with…
In my shop I have a wide selection of hand planes, from vintage Stanley’s to the modern designed, and Canadian made Veritas. I’m the proud owner of a James Krenov smoothing plane and also have an assortment of vintage wooden bodied bench planes and special…
BE CAREFUL NEAR MACHINERY Better yet, Unplugg the Woodshop! -just kidding Work safe and use your head. Cheers! (but not until the sharp tools are put away…)
A good friend of mine back home on Cape Breton Island just launched his new web-site and with Spring finally in the air he’ll be opening his doors for another season. La Bella Mona Lisa is a beautiful little gallery on the West side of…
Last summer I built a trestle style table using some reclaimed Angelique for the base frame and some wide Mahogany for the top. Traditional bread board ends were tenoned to the main table top surface glued with walnut dowels added as fasteners. The three tenons…
After a long and rather fulfilling day in the woodshop, Glue Bear takes a step back to admire some of his handy work. Stay tuned…
A shot of my new glue bottle… ‘Glue Bear’ I finally have a mascot- Just thought I’d share that. Cheers!
What more can be said. I recently shipped off four old ‘beaters’ to Mark Harrell of TechnoPrimitives.com. There Mark will clean, sharpen and over-haul any old hand saw you may have. The four I sent were your typical garage sale variety, old worn-out, dull and…
A few weeks ago I was walking along our street here in Toronto and noticed this old wooden door on the curb side of a neighbours house. They were throwing it out so I decided to take it home. I’m just finishing off a modern…
