Hand Tool Woodworking Instruction and Thoughts

Don’t Tear Up Over Tear Out

I get a lot of questions about tear out. (I know, you’re jealous of my life) Specifically

Everyone needs a smoothing plane. They can eliminate (or very nearly) sandpaper

When the time comes to smooth plane your project to prepare it for finish, the best

What is the best way to mill a board using only hand tools? Try sweating on it. There

At work I was asked to clean up a piece of vertical grain Douglas Fir to be sent

I got a question from Joe wondering which hand planes would be best to replace a

I flattened my workbench top when I finished building it. I touched it up once about

So Get Woodworking week is here and I have been saving this post for a while for