Spoken Wood Podcast No. 196

| April 24, 2012

Today’s episode was written by Jameel Abraham for the Benchcrafted blog. It’s titled “A smoothing plane trick and some amazing dovetails” and was originally posted June 4, 2011. To find more posts written by Jameel, visit the Benchcrafted blog at benchcrafted.blogspot.com. Download Audio File Do you have a blog post or an article you’d like [...]

Spoken wood podcast no. 184

| February 28, 2012

Today’s episode was written by Jameel Abraham for the Benchcrafted blog. It’s titled “The Project As Bench” and was originally posted October 16, 2010. To find more great posts like today’s, visit the Benchcrafted blog at benchcrafted.blogspot.com. Download Audio File Do you have a blog post or an article you’d like to share on the [...]

Mid-week tool sneak peek no. 15

| October 26, 2011

Benchcrafted makes more than vises and bench equipment. They also make simple tools that simply work. How many tool manufacturers can say that? One such tool is the Skraper. A hand held scraper is a great tool for a number of jobs. But the models on the market that first come to mind just don’t [...]

Mid-week tool sneak peek no. 10

| September 14, 2011

Ever since Lost Art Press re-introduced Joseph Moxon’s 17th c. book “The Art of Joinery.” to the masses we’ve had the fortune of re-discovering tools and fixtures that have somehow been forgotten. Why these items were forgotten is beyond me. One of the shop fixtures that’s been re-introduced to modern woodworkers is Moxon’s “double screw [...]

464 Building the Benchcrafted Moxon Vise

| September 12, 2011

Summer might as well be officially over. The kids are back in school, the warmest days are now almost equal to the coldest nights from just a month ago and I’m heading back into the shop with the video camera to start building more great stuff to share with all of you. Yes, I’d say [...]