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Thanks chaps, glad you like it.

Just a tip for those of you thinking of adding drawers. Remember to leave space to lift tools up and over the lower lip of the opening. I forgot to take this into...

I thought the neanderthals might be interested in this, my new hand-built hand-tool chest.

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Robert Wearing's The Essential Woodworker has a couple of hand planing exercises - removing or avoiding pencil marks to teach where/how to remove wood etc. - which I've found useful. There's a modern...

I've got a very similar plane from my Grandpa's tool chest. No chip breaker, just an iron in it.

I've certainly never used it (and he says neither has he). It's always seemed more of a curiosity...

In 'The Joiner and Cabinet Maker' - a sort of guide book for prospective apprentices in 1839, following one apprentice, Thomas, to illustrate the sort of work expected of them - the only back saws...

Thanks for the advice guys, I'll sharpen them up as recommended and see how I get on. Gives me something useful to do this weekend!

Hi Chaps,

I've recently picked up some hand-saws cheap on ebay - mostly for more saw sharpening practice but also with the aim to kit out a tool chest and replace my plastic handled saws - and I'm...

Thanks for the kind comments chaps.



Andrew - if I'm right in thinking European Maple is what what we'd call Sycamore this side of the pond - the local timber yard doesn't list it on their...

After spending over a year on it I've finally finished my first 'proper' woodworking project (before this I built a simple tray, which completes the history of my woodworking adventures). I was...

23 years old here - born in 1990!

Younger than most of my tools (by a fair bit in some cases), I'm an old man at heart though.

Thank you all for the warm welcome and the wealth of advice.

Plenty of reading for me to get on with, and then, fingers crossed, onto some successful saw sharpening!

Hi all,

Despite having no interest in high school, I now have a growing interest in woodwork. So far I've done a few basic bits and pieces under the guidance of my Grandpa using his old tools but...