Popular Woodworking Magazine » Hand Tools http://www.popularwoodworking.com Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Thu, 23 May 2013 03:02:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Using a Scratch Stockhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/using-a-scratch-stock http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/using-a-scratch-stock#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:01:19 +0000 Megan Fitzpatrick http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=258797
Using a Scratch Stock

For the April 2013 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, we tested the new Hock Tools scratch stock – you can find that full tool test free online by clicking here. The video below shows you how to use this simple tool (with the note that you can also clamp your workpiece in place).   — … Read more »

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Do Power Tools Have Soul?

I don’t generally think of power tools in the same reverential, (perhaps) overly romanticized tones that come to mind when I consider hand tools. I can stare at my grandfather’s 8 oz. Kentucky Bluegrass claw hammer for hours daydreaming about what may have caused the nicks and wear. Or imagine the unknown maker who’s hands … Read more »

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Make Your Own Hand tools

I’ve turned hollow mortise chisels into square punches, refashioned chisels and their handles, made a number of scratch stocks, ground steel bar stock into embossing punches and a made a few other quick tools. And I’ve built a few wooden, Krenov-style handplanes over the years – I had a fine time and wound up with … Read more »

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Roy Underhill Videos Now Available to Order

On behalf of Roy Underhill and the entire Popular Woodworking team, I am delighted to announce that we now have four seasons of Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s Shop” DVDs available to order at ShopWoodworking.com (and we’ll soon have the streaming video site live): Season One; Season Two; Season Three; and Season 20 (which Roy says … Read more »

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Accuracy in Woodworking

One of the sure signs of getting old is finding out that the kid who works in the next cubicle never heard of the TV show “WKRP in Cincinnati.” Another sign is remembering something that is taken for granted today was at one time brand spanking new. Our web guy wasn’t even born in 1982 … Read more »

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]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/accuracy-in-woodworking/feed 17 Watch Jeff Miller Demonstrate his M&T Jigshttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/watch-jeff-miller-demonstrate-his-mt-jigs http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/watch-jeff-miller-demonstrate-his-mt-jigs#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:10:26 +0000 Megan Fitzpatrick http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=160971 Those of you at the Lie-Nielsen show in Chicago may have seen me and Christopher Schwarz pestering Jeff Miller to demonstrate his slick tenon jig and mortise jig – the ones about which he’s written for the June 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. If you were one of those who asked me when the … Read more »

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]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/watch-jeff-miller-demonstrate-his-mt-jigs/feed 11 Learn to Sharpen Chisels the Japanese Wayhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/video/learn-to-sharpen-chisels-the-japanese-way http://www.popularwoodworking.com/video/learn-to-sharpen-chisels-the-japanese-way#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:43:52 +0000 David Thiel http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=160091 Another video on sharpening? Ugh! No, wait…this one’s kinda different. In fact, this video isn’t about the cutting edge of the chisel. What?! It’s true. “Chisel Sharpening with Harrelson Stanley” is about the ergonomics of the body and its relationship to the chisel. Japanese tool and sharpening expert Harrelson Stanley discusses how to hold your … Read more »

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]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/video/learn-to-sharpen-chisels-the-japanese-way/feed 1 ‘Chisel Basics’ Video with Christopher Schwarzhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/video/chisel-basics-video-with-christopher-schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/video/chisel-basics-video-with-christopher-schwarz#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:57:12 +0000 Tom Nunlist http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=159011 I’m not a hand tool guy. There, I’ve said it. If I can find a way to use a power tool, I will. That said, I, like most woodworkers, do use hand tools on a regular basis. My experience has been that most woodworkers who have an aversion to hand tools (like me) weren’t taught … Read more »

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Hand Tools, Routers, Japanese Joinery and More – New on DVD

From mastering hand tools to router basics, 18th-century joinery to Japanese hand tools and joinery, you’ll find it all among the five new DVD selections now available  to order at ShopWoodworking.com (and four of them are on “pre-sale” which means you save 20 percent if you order before the DVDs arrive in the warehouse). “Handsaws: … Read more »

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New: ‘Mastering Hand Tools: Basic Skills for Balanced Woodworking’

If you read this blog, you are probably interested in hand tools. And if you are at the beginning of your journey, this blog entry is for you. Popular Woodworking Magazine commissioned me to make a series of 10 to-the-point videos about hand tools that try to strip away the confusion so you can get … Read more »

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