Category: Lessons
One off lessons or live sessions covering a specific hand tool topic
Casework Accuracy
Building boxes is probably one of the fundamental tasks in most woodworking. Want to build a chest? Its a box filled with other boxes. A dining table? A box on legs. A Morris Chair? A…
Angled Mortise and Tenon
Take any joinery and throw in an angle and immediately people panic. Now up the ante and make that a compound angle and most woodworkers curl up into a ball and cry. The mortise and…
Hand Plane a Twisted Board
The best thing to do with a heavily twisted board is to put it back on the rack at the lumber yard and find a flatter one. This isn't always possible though and into every…
The Rising Dovetail
There is a whole world of unusual joinery out there and this rising dovetail is one of the ones that seems impossible when seen assembled. The dovetail acts like a wedge preventing the boards from…
Blind Mitered Dovetail
The dovetail joint is placed on a pedestal for so many woodworkers. The irony is that the Mortise & Tenon does most of the heavy lifting in furniture. However nothing holds together a corner joint…
The Spot Planing Technique
A Better Way to Flatten a Board By Hand! When every board is unique following a process to flatten a board by hand makes no sense. Spot plane away the high spots to get flatter,…
Making Duplicate Parts by Hand
Making Duplicate Parts by Hand is really just about working to a line
Resawing by Hand
Using a specific Resawing Frame Saw makes the process of resawing fast and efficient without the capacity limitations that come with the average bandsaw. Whether you need to turn a thicker board into 2 thinner…
3 Tips to a Square Edge by Hand
Milling your lumber flat and square is a fundamental skill that is an essential step prior to any joinery. Squaring the edges of those boards may even be the most important aspect of the milling…
The Jack Plane as Your Only Plane
The Stanley #5 plane is colloquially called the Jack plane because it is a competent plane for many different tasks. I have often stated that it can be the only plane you use and this…