The Church of "Leave me Alone, Please"
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During the last 17 years that I have been using a honing guide to sharpen, I've been approached (sometimes nearly assaulted) by people who want to teach me to sharpen freehand. My response: I sharpen freehand all the time. They don't believe me, and so they spend an hour or so to show me how they hone their edges. Then they want me to try their technique and say: hat's []
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No, No They Arent
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I was recently at a home center in desperate search of wood screws in large quantities (our local woodworking stores close far too early…or I work too late). All the home center had available in wood screws was two boxes of 50. That is not a large quantity when one is screwing kitchen cabinets together, adding drawer slides, etc. So I grabbed a hardware-area customer service person and asked if […]The post No, No They Aren’t appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Settling Debts: An Update on Clifton Handplanes
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Though Ive been a non-editor at both Popular Woodworking and The Fine Tool Journal for almost three years now, I still have debts to pay. And I take those debts seriously. One of my first reviews for The Fine Tool Journal, which was reprinted in the book Handplane Essentials, is a review of Clifton bench planes. I had some of the first-ever Clifton planes, which were both spectacular and troubling. […]The post Settling Debts: An Update on Clifton Handplanes appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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