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Another point Adam,

Second tier tools may require the same sort of tuning as an antique to get them to operate properly. The savings in buying them is mitigated by time spent tuning them up plus...

I'm curious, Warren, Jessica, do you refer to yourselves as 'artisans' or is that Mark's word? Is it only the single income stream 'professional', or can people who also make fine furniture be...

Mark, as I stated before, I respect Jessica's point of view on 'instructional media' in a very real way because I share it about media in my own occupation. Furthermore I'm delighted to hear about...

I think I see what you're talking about Kyle. Real communication is hard in many cases and especially with a back and forth on a forum. Two people can be having two separate lines of discussion that...

I don't have a bandsaw, so I'd rip them with a circular saw and maintain a nice firm hold on it. I haven't yet had a circular saw get torn from my hands, but they do kick pretty hard ripping 2X...

It is an old Milwaukee Fuel # 2653-20. I bought it years ago. It might be the original Fuel impact but I don't know. It has a soft button below the grip you press to change speeds. I really only ever...

My 18V Milwaukee has three torque/speed ranges although I tend to leave it on the highest setting. It will destroy a frame and drive screws right through softwood if I'm not careful, but my view is...

$64 is a very low wage for a single day where I live which is a low cost of living area of the US.

You might have had to see some since deleted posts to catch the full flavor of the national pride rant. I am certainly not claiming superiority of vocational education in the US. I was simply...

I take Jessica's original point, waaaay back there, about the professional's view of 'instuctional media' in a way that might surprise you. When I look at books and youtube videos about welding, I...

In my occupation, my real job, I went through an apprenticeship program and spent years doing the hardest labor and most menial tasks for a starvation wage. It was a slog but I was aware throughout...

It is a striking design, clearly differentiating a uniquely MF product from a Stanley copy. That's all I the compliments I can bring myself to offer to a plastic handled plane. I had a bad...

Noah,
The center of the 2X12 will be the least stable. Two pieces cut from the sides of a wider board are generally the best lumber to be had in the construction grade category. The pith is the...

My very first plane was a plastic handled big box item and it shreds the skin from your hands around the screw holes. Can't say about the Buck Rodgers planes, but I have a bias against plastic...

I think I have an idea what you mean. I had a customer 2 years ago who I had built some benches and an outdoor porch for. She walked up one day and asked if I would make new cabinet doors for her...

Not really any specific rule, but I'm very sensitive to the dangers of losing control of heavy objects. In my real job I've had coworkers who have: had their ribs crushed and lungs collapsed, broken...

On the concept of working with your hands and 'dirty jobs'.
Ironically enough, it seems a more attractive course for young people entering the work force in the US today is to become a youtube...

If I build a cabinet in my shop to sell to my neighbor and the Edwin Santos guild of master cabinetmakers sends me a letter telling me to cease and desist. Who is the government of the United States...

So nice on the fabric detail. Gotta love that 20s style hat on the right! Maybe if I had a state recognized diploma...no not this lifetime. Oh well:(

I doubt Chris Schwarz can teach someone to...

Jessica, the question as to why craftsmen in the States don't need certificates to sell their products goes all the way back to the founding of the country and our repressed trade by taxations and...

What was that wood that they used to use for the hubs of wagon wheels? I think it might have been black locust.

I cannot speak to numbers in the world as a whole, but in the US the Hobbyist woodworker VASTLY outnumbers the professional. Estimates are around 17 million hobbyists. Professionals are measured in...

Hey Kyle,
It's a little harder than the youtube demonstrations make it look but you'll get there. You don't need to sharpen only with the pull stroke the whole time, just for the first one or two...

There's another argument to be made here for respect and tolerance as opposed to exclusivity. While Chris Schwarz may never 'teach' anything to a master woodworker, his body of work is nothing to...

Ahhhh...now I know why that shave horse design I saw had the legs mortised into bearers which were then fit into sliding dovetails in the seat! It all looked so unnecessary until now.:) What wood did...