You can tune up your band saw to resaw veneer without expensive fences or blades. By Carl Bilderback Pages: 66-67 From the August 2006 issue #156 Buy this issue now The subject most often written about in woodworking magazines is probably cutting dovetails. In second place – and not far behind – is likely resawing … Read more
Today as we finished up my three-day class on “Handplane Essentials” at The Woodwright’s School, we spent some time at Roy Underhill’s Barnes 1874 combination machine – a treadle-powered table saw that kicked my keister during my first visit to the school. This time, I did a little better job ripping lumber on the Barnes … Read more
UNC-TV has posted the shows from the new season of Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s Shop” so you can watch them on your computer – including the two episodes I appeared in. We taped the two episodes right before I taught a sawing class at The Woodwright’s School in Pittsboro, N.C. You can read about that … Read more
I’m just about the last hand-tool blogger/forum gadfly to write about the Knew Concepts fretsaws, which have recently made the evolutionary leap from the world of jewelers to that of woodworkers. I’ve purchased two of the Knew Concepts saws during the last year and watched as its maker, Lee Marshall, has refined the tool so … Read more
One of the most-popular projects I made last year was the Moxon Double-screw Vise from the December 2010 issue. It’s popularity was eclipsed only by the Handplane Birdhouse in the August 2010 issue. One guy built 12 of them. I have received some complaints about the Moxon Double-screw. Not about how it works – I … Read more
Jeff Burks of CarpentryArchive.org is a patent-searching madman. And his insanity is your gain. He’s been assembling patents on coping saws, Buhle saws, bow saws and their blades and collecting them into a handy pdf that will delight and bewilder you. See the Fenner patent saw (above). Marvel at the saw-filing vise designed for coping … Read more
I’ve never had a drug dealer, but I’m starting to know what it might feel like. Lately, woodworker and tool collector Carl Bilderback has been dangling some interesting tools before me, and I have been snatching them up. Carl has found my two weaknesses: edge plane a la the Stanley No. 95 and coping saws. … Read more
