Understanding Hang Angle
Discover what really matters when choosing a handsaw. You don’t have to be a saw maker to think about saws like one. Some of the most important decisions made when making a saw get surprisingly [...]
Almost-Forgotten Handsaw Tricks
Chris Schwarz shares some handy, nearly-forgotten handsaw tricks to use in the shop.
Tricks of the Trade & End Grain Contests – Win a Copy of ‘Handsaw Essentials’
We’re trying to get a few issues ahead (a girl has to have a dream), thus we need to beef up our files on our reader-sourced “Regulars” columns: Tricks of the Trade and End [...]
Galoot Sawtill
In the Saw Storage chapter for “Handsaw Essentials,” I would have liked to include this sawtill that Samuel Peterson built; it was featured in the August 2000 issue of Popular [...]
Creole Table Plan (A Mark of my Anal-Rententive Nature)
I’m busy trying to tie up the loose ends and a few empty columns in our forthcoming book “Handsaw Essentials” (which should be available by the end of October). It’s a [...]
