| | Fri Mar 13 12:00 PM | |  Festool Fest is back and this time we are adding Friday afternoon to the Festivities! Festool staff will be on hand for demos and to show you how Festool tools can help you work fast, cleaner and more efficiently.
Check out the new Spring 2020 tools and accessories (like the $349 CT 15 vac) and all the classic Festool tools.
Working in a tight space? We’ve got you covered with lots of...more.. | |
| Sat Mar 14 12:00 PM | | | Festool Fest is back and this time we are adding Friday afternoon to the Festivities! Festool staff will be on hand for demos and to show you how Festool tools can help you work fast, cleaner and more efficiently.
Check out the new Spring 2020 tools and accessories (like the $349 CT 15 vac) and all the classic Festool tools.
Working in a tight space? We’ve got you covered with lots of...more.. | |
| | | 01/29/2020 | |  From "Mechanick Exercises" 1678
The woodworking chisels illustrated in Joseph Moxon's classic Mechanick Exercises, seen above, lack what we consider a standard component: ferrules. The chisels are missing the band of metal round the front of the handle that keeps the handle from splitting. In 1678, the era of Mechanick Exercises, chisel handles didn't have ferrules. To make a ferrule you need a...more.. | |
| 12/04/2019 | |  It's been a year since we introduced the BT&C Planing stop . Two events prompted this blog entry. The first is that Popular Woodworking just put the planing stop in their Popular Woodworking 2019 Gift Guide . This is great, thank you very much. We really appreciate the notice. (And thanks as well to Fine Woodworking/Taunton Press for including the Planing Stop in their 2020 Tool Guide - Best...more.. | |
| 11/27/2019 | |  The bevel gauge is a simple little tool that enables me to avoid guesswork and get consistent angles on my chisels, plane blades and other tools. I typically eyeball almost everything I grind or sharpen. Most of the time I just want to maintain the angle I already have. But over time, it's easy for a bevel angle of a frequently-sharpened tool to creep up, or a new tool to start out with a...more.. | |
| | | 08/30/2018 | |  Like most people, we spend lots of time (way too much time) surfing the web, entranced by various videos. In Video Roundup, we offer some videos from all over the world that we found especially intriguing.
This week’s selections focus on Medieval carpentry techniques. Hand tools indeed!
Early Medieval Timber Work
Medieval Carpentry - Building Without Nails...more.. | |
| 08/23/2018 | |  Like most people, we spend lots of time (way too much time) surfing the web, entranced by various videos. In Video Roundup, we offer some videos from all over the world that we found especially intriguing.
This week’s selections focus on the ornate and exquisite furniture made by David Roentgen (1743-1807) -- and its secret compartments and ingenious portability.
The Roentgens' Berlin...more.. | |
| 08/16/2018 | |  Like most people, we spend lots of time (way too much time) surfing the web, entranced by various videos. In Video Roundup, we offer some videos from all over the world that we found especially intriguing.
This week’s selections focus traditional woodworking in Sweden - traditional axe making and the trifecta of clogs, spoons and chairs.
Traditional Swedish Woodworking: Clogs, Spoons and...more.. | |
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Greetings Workateers! Our fourth and final volume has come to a close and so has the Work Magazine...more.. | |
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The editions of Work mag we have here in the shop often have the ads removed but the last couple...more.. | |
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