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Workshop Moments – Daren concave surfacing
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A nifty little inlaying trick
This is a Lu Lu. I know Daren has a lot of lovely and clever ways of doing tricky things. They almost never come from magazines but from doing the job, thinking about it, and finding a better way....
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Agree to disagree
Thomas Johnston recently wrote to me in response to the chisels section of the woodworking tools page: I just read your article on tools, and I would like to say that your section on Japanese tools...
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more on those steel bananas
Good morning to you David. It is refreshing to hear what a useful review should tell you all of the time, warts and all. It has baffled me for some time why the remaining British manufacturers just...
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Modern British hand tool manufacturers just don’t seem to “get it”
Good morning to you David, It’s refreshing to hear what a useful review should tell you all of the time, warts and all. It has baffled me for some time why the remaining British manufacturers just...
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No holds barred censorship
Thank you, David, for these no-holds-barred email newsletters. I agree with you regarding the Lee Valley/Veritas planes. I made the mistake of posting your comments, along with mine, on a popular US...
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Endless dissatisfaction – More Steel Woes
Hello Mr. Savage, This message is not to discuss a place in your teaching workshop, I write here as I did not find any other e-mail address [due to spambots and such it is a little too risky for us to...
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Chisels in Australia
Hi David, I read your emails and blog with great appreciation – for your honesty, insight, generosity and humour. I have yet to buy a single Lie Nielsen product but I am eyeing a few, probably a block...
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Sharpness and Sharpening: A Makers Year 14
Ohhh… This is going to be bad. You know more tosh has been written about sharpening woodworking tools than a grown man can tolerate. But I shall proceed, but only if you are sitting comfortably. There...
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Sharpening, There is always a corner. A Makers Year 24
SHARPENING – THERE’S ALWAYS A CORNER End of a day spent sat on my backside for six hours working out what’s going on, and what might go on in the next twelve months. If I get this wrong there are...
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Sharpening 2 the other side A Makers Year 25
SHARPENING 2 The other side of this blade had also been sharpened to a pretty strange angle. So I reground that face as well. We use a dry grinder with a pretty good tool rest that we modified here...
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Hand saws, Using a Tenon and a Panel Saw: A Makers Year 30.
SAWS AND SAWING – REMOVING THE LID I need a decent strong pencil or ink line if my poor old eyes are to follow it. That line I marked reasonably carefully around the box. I then use two tools. The...
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