Hand Tool Woodworking Instruction and Thoughts

Choose Your Hand Plane

I have great respect for contractors who do on site work. I would be a terrible contractor.

I was finish planing some particularly difficult ribbon striped African Mahogany

Here is a quick episode showing how the Scrub plane can be used to quickly trim a

So maybe this is nothing new to some of you, but this is a little trick I have been

Several months ago I did a head to head review of Lie Nielsen vs WoodRiver hand planes.

The Anthony Hay blog inspired this little video. I wanted to take a moment to pull

I have gotten a lot of emails about what to do with the 16/4 wide African Mahogany

At my day job I am working on building up a web presence for our wholesale lumber