Cool Nailmaking Video from Austria
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 Blacksmith Peter Ross recently sent me a link to the video below that shows production nailmaking of shoe nails in a town in Austria. These guys are working at breakneck speed - forget those modern videos you see of amateur smiths working in their garages. If you've never read about pre-industrial nail production, it was a hard life. In the United Kingdom and its colonies, nailmaking was many times a […]The post Cool Nailmaking Video from Austria appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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CNC Tooling Basics for Woodworkers
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 Part One: Questions & Answers about Mills & Bits Yes, the topic of CNC mills can be complicated. Because of the overwhelming minutiae of design detail and a bewildering number of choices, there's more than enough to intimidate any CNC user. But, it doesn't have to be that way. Fortunately, woodworkers have a fairly narrow focus: Cutting wood on a CNC. We have special considerations to consider but the good […]The post CNC Tooling Basics for Woodworkers appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Stop Spelching with an Unlikely Ally: Sandpaper
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 When you shoot end grain with a handplane, you have to be wary of spelching - when the end grain breaks off at the end of your stroke. There are several ways to avoid spelching; one of the quick ways is to use sandpaper. This trick works best when you are just trying to clean up some end grain by removing tool marks. If you are instead trying to correct […]The post Stop Spelching with an Unlikely Ally: Sandpaper appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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