Can Workbench Legs be too Big?
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Jacques writes: I have your workbench book, and I am currently working on my version of the French bench. I had soft maple cut down from my woods, so I had it sawn, and I am working with it for the top. For the legs, a friend of mine gave me four beams that are about 9″ x 9″, out of some resinous wood. They are cracked and dry (must []
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If Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
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If cleanliness is truly next to godliness, then we are lords of the underworld. I took this picture (and shot the video below) whilst standing atop my benchmy bench to which one must take a wholly circuitous route past large builds, old projects, my pile of plywood, machinerymy fault for choosing the windows at the far side of the shop, I suppose. But the trip got a little harder after []
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Butt Chisels & Butt Mortise Planes
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In the short video posted last Thursday (1/30/2014), Christopher Schwarz talks about chisels. At the tail end of the clip, he talks about butt chisels where he mentions that these chisels are shorter and have great balance when knocking out dovetail waste, but you use a bench chisel for that, too. So why do we have butt chisels? The term is said to originate from the carpenter trade where short []
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