Matt | March 31, 2010
It’s time to wrap up our discussion of the block planes. Hopefully I’ve answered some questions and explained the hows and whys of using the block plane. It’s an important tool for all woodshops, powertool, handtool or hybrid. Regardless of whether it’s a low-angle or standard angle block plane, the block plane is something that [...]
Matt | March 30, 2010
Today’s episode was written and recorded by Tom Iovino of Tom’s Workbench. It’s titled “Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Silence” and was originally posted August 28th, 2007. So on with the show… Click to Play Download Audio File If you haven’t done so yet, subscribe to the Spoken Wood Podcast feed so you [...]
Matt | March 29, 2010
There are a lot of workbench accessories on the market, but typically they’re either something that needs to be built as part of the workbench top and are nearly permanent components or they’re small useful items, but don’t have much versatility to them. A newer accessory that hit the market in the past year is [...]
Matt | March 28, 2010
Today’s episode for The Daily Matt is a quick demo of the basic tasks in my own workshop that the block plane takes care of for me. They’re very simple tasks, but almost no other plane does them as well. I’m convinced it’s because of how much smaller the block plane is, when compared to [...]
Matt | March 28, 2010
Today’s episode of The Spoken Wood Podcast was written and recorded by Joel Moskowitz of Joel’s Blog at Tools for Working Wood. The article is titled “Practice Makes Perfect – On Learning To Carve” and was originally posted August 7th, 2009. To read more of Joel’s posts visit his blog at Tools for Working Wood. [...]
