Treat yourself or your favourite woodworker to the ultimate gift for their collection of woodwork tools this Christmas.
This precision, German engineered hand plane will bring joy to any woodworker.
Jun
16
The jointer plane (also commonly called the try or trying plane) is a woodworking tool designed for planing long edges square, straight and true. “Jointing” is the term used to describe this process, as it is generally done to prepare a board to be joined to another board, so that a single, wider board is [...]
May
28
In these times of pre-prepared timber and power thicknessers/planers, the scrub plane is one of the woodworking tools that you don’t see as often as other planes. Scrub planes do still come in handy in a number of situations such as (in my case) when you don’t have a thicknesser, or your board is too [...]
May
20
The smallest of the planes commonly found amongst woodworking tools, the block plane is normally only about 5-6 inches long, and is designed to fit comfortably in one hand. Originally designed for trimming end grain, the block plane is a versatile woodwork tool that you will find many uses for. As I have mentioned in [...]
May
6
The smoothing plane is generally slightly smaller in length than the Jack Plane – typically 9-10inches long, with a blade width of around 2 inches, and is the last plane to be used to finish the surface of your wood. Many fine craftsmen will use the smoothing plane as the tool which gives the final [...]
Apr
29
This is the first of a series of very brief entries in which I intend to cover some of the different types of my favourite woodwork tools – hand planes. I thought I would start with one of the most common – the Jack Plane. The Jack plane is probably the most used of the [...]
Feb
8
Recently, I have developed an interest in building timber kayaks, and have launched into a project to construct my first kayak. I decided to dip my toe into the water (so to speak), by taking the easier stressed ply construction method, rather than jumping in with both feet and attacking a strip built kayak as my first project. [...]
