Seven Questions with Andrew Lunn
With Andrew Lunn’s announcement that he’s leaving the sawmaking business, the No. 1 question on all our minds is: Who will have the guts to pull a prank on Jameel Abraham from Benchcrafted at the [...]
Andrew Lunn Exits the Sawmaking Business
Andrew Lunn, who made the finest backsaws I’ve ever used, has decided to stop making saws, though he is not hanging up his shop apron entirely. Lunn made the announcement to his customers today [...]
Video: Sawing a Book – Safely
Say you want to scan one of your books so you can have it on your iPad or other tablet device. The easiest way to scan the book is to remove the binding and run it through a sheet feeder.…
Mike Wenzloff and the Remarkable No. 77 Backsaw
As we age, we tend to become more set in our ways. With saws, the opposite is true: The older I get, the less set I want. For those of you who didn’t get the (lame) joke in the previous …
Video: Level the Feet of a Chair or Sawbench
Getting the four feet of a sawbench, chair or stool all in the same plane is a challenge for some woodworkers. You can end up nibbling a bar stool into an ottoman if you take the wrong approach. [...]
Ron Herman’s DVD on Saw Sharpening
One of my goals in this job has been to help produce a saw sharpening video that makes sense of all the dogma about this simple task. Should you set the teeth before or after you file them? [...]
Barnes Treadle Saw in Action – Again!
Today as we finished up my three-day class on “Handplane Essentials” at The Woodwright’s School, we spent some time at Roy Underhill’s Barnes 1874 combination machine – a treadle-powered table [...]
Watch Me on 'The Woodwright’s Shop.’ I Can’t
UNC-TV has posted the shows from the new season of Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s Shop” so you can watch them on your computer – including the two episodes I appeared in. We taped the two [...]
Knew Concepts Fretsaws Approach Perfection
I’m just about the last hand-tool blogger/forum gadfly to write about the Knew Concepts fretsaws, which have recently made the evolutionary leap from the world of jewelers to that of woodworkers. [...]
Need a Moxon Double-screw Vise?
One of the most-popular projects I made last year was the Moxon Double-screw Vise from the December 2010 issue. It’s popularity was eclipsed only by the Handplane Birdhouse in the August [...]
For Frame-saw Nuts Only
Jeff Burks of CarpentryArchive.org is a patent-searching madman. And his insanity is your gain. He’s been assembling patents on coping saws, Buhle saws, bow saws and their blades and [...]
Coping Mechanisms for Gizmo Lovers
I’ve never had a drug dealer, but I’m starting to know what it might feel like. Lately, woodworker and tool collector Carl Bilderback has been dangling some interesting tools before [...]