Improve the Comfort & Feel of Your Tool Handles
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I use round-head mallets almost all of the time. I find that they are very effective in driving my gouges and chisels decisively into the wood. There are cases where I prefer to use rectangular-head hammers and mallets, but most of the time I reach for one of my rounds. I bought my first rounds from William Alden back in 1998. They were turned from hard tropical wood and their […]The post Improve the Comfort & Feel of Your Tool Handles appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Toshio Odate: Woodworking Legend
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I count myself among the luckier people in the world for having had the chance to hang out with Toshio Odate and Laure Olender for a couple of days in Connecticut. Sure, we were there to film “Woodworking Legends: An Interview with Toshio Odate” (and “Talking Japanese Tools with Toshio Odate“), but it felt quite a bit like a vacation with friends (except for that mike I had attached to […]The post Toshio Odate: Woodworking Legend appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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