When Manufacturers Come Calling

It’s always fun and informative when Manufacturers visit us to present new products. Last week Jason Swanson, Director of Communications , Power Tool Division for TTI, was in town to...

Real Joinery Surfaces

While teaching a class on handsawing a couple years ago, one student lost his cool. He was cutting a tenon for his sawbench, and he strayed over the line and...

Cheating at Jointing Edges

When I glue up panels from several narrow boards, I use my jointer plane to dress all the mating edges. While our power jointer is fairly well tuned, it’s rarely...

Wholly Whopper Musky!!!

Not even Scout the dog was brave enough to land this lunker, there's only one fisherman brave enough to land such a monster in his 12 ft aluminum boat.  He...

Plow Planes: Metal vs. Wood

In my kindergarten class, someone was snitching cookies from the lunchboxes of the rest of the class. (Spoiler alert: It was the fat kid.) While the teacher’s investigation was ongoing,...

Chair, Hands fine

Of course yesterday’s blog post was an April Fool’s joke. Work continues on my chair. And recent cuts while demonstrating aside, I almost never cut myself. I think the worst...