Tool Test: Ridgid's R3100 Jigsaw
You have to admit that the design of the newest jigsaw from Ridgid is a bit unique. It is a barrel-grip jigsaw with an extreme flat front – as it sits on the bench, it reminds me of a small …
Help for Winter Hand Woes
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date– William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 The harbingers of Autumn are, for me, riotously colored leaves, my [...]
File Under: Handplane Maintenance
When your handplane won’t create a perfect surface, there are several things to check. Here’s how I diagnose the problem when it looks like I’m making plane tracks in my work. [...]
WINE BOTTLE HOLDER
SIMPLE TO DO WITH OFF CUTS THAT ARE 3 INCH X 8 INCH X 1 INCH.WITH XMAS COMING UP. IDEAL GIFTS.…
Bench Class Wrap-up
Days four, five and six of the 21st Century Workbench class at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking found me too beat to blog. Building a workbench in six days is a challenge, and as work [...]
Yuppie Tools: A True Accounting
In a bar outside Philadelphia, Thomas Lie-Nielsen, John Economaki and I are having a drink and talking about the people who are getting rich selling tools. I’m on my second beer and running [...]
CHEESE BOARD CUTTER
ODDS AND ENDS OF SPARE OFF CUTS. PLUS SOME PYOGRAPHY. MAX TIME TO MAKE 1 1/2 HOURS.…
Web Extras Issue #151 December/January 2011
Learn how to cut square mortises using a drill press. How to make zero-clearance inserts More about Greene and Greene furniture Learn how to turn perfect [...]
Early Bird Sale: 'Build a Sawbench' DVD
If you use saws powered by meat and muscle, you need a pair of sawbenches. Both you and the saw work a lot better when your work rests on these kneecap-high platforms. For the last five years [...]
Wainscot & Panelling Set by Infinity
In the November issue (#186) of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I review a set of Wainscot & Paneling (#00-510) router bits from Infinity Cutting Tools. (Check out the set here.) The set does a [...]
Why I File the Corners of my Irons
Before After When setting up bench planes, the enemy is plane tracks – the ugly step created on a board when one (or both) of the corners of the tool’s cutter digs into your work. In my [...]
Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away….: Itsik Cohen’s aviation industry…
Itsik makes all king of toys, but he putts a much of his artistic zeal in making planes and helicopters of different sizes. Some of them are made form ply wood, and the plies appears like [...]