#handtools

Owning appliances comes with big responsibilities, from cleaning to maintaining them, or, in the worstcase scenario, fixing them too. To be honest, I only help Mom with their appliances when she asks for

A man in a shed with scrap wood and time on his hands.

If you spend any time on social media you'll get the idea that to be a successful woodworker you have to use hand tools. You get the idea you have to do things by hand and only use hardwood... blah blah

The spanner is a common hand tool used to tighten or loosen fasteners like nuts and bolts. They offer a tighter grip and amplify the mechanical pressure in applying torque to turn objects. The tool is

Just cutting up some brass inserts ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

HANDWORK magazine will be released by the end of June. For those who don't know I've started a magazine for hand tool woodworkers. It will be available on my blog free of charge. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

I thought I lost these videos which is why I haven't uploaded anything new. Issue V of handwork was released today, you can download this and all other issues for free at ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

I know its taken a long time but it's finally done. Issue V is ready and will be available to download at midnight on Saturday 13, 2018 and yes it is FREE to download. There are some great articles covered

First of all, my sincere apologies for taking so long, but you can appreciate the enormity of work involved in producing a magazine like “The Lost Scrolls of Handwork”. There is the project build itself

This one is for detail work Signed it with a little inlay The frame is sycamore and the handles are koa.

Chopping is time consuming when creating a mortise, which is why I prefer to bore with my brace and bit. But isn't it annoying and downright shameful when you can't get the bit dead centred between the

This is the cradle I plan on building again for Issue V. The dolls cradle in the picture is for my niece and a prototype. The beauty with this cradle is that it's not a factory replica of a factory style

BY JOHN RUSKIN 1901 To ensure enthusiasm of good workmanship mong craftsmen, they must be relieved of the hard pressure of circumstance. They must neither be pressed for time nor by want. They must be

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Back in December I turned a little bowl from a branch of African Sumac that I found. Fresh cut, the wood is really pale. The bowl has been sitting on my wife’s desk for six months now and you can see that