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 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 25, 2010
Today’s episode is the final in the series on the Maple, Child’s Dresser build. Unfortunately as will happen on this show, I did have to jump forward in time a little as I started to fall behind my original schedule to have it completed. Up to this point the vast majority of the construction has [...]
Matt | March 23, 2010
Today’s episode is the first by a brand new contributor to the show, Mr. George Walker of the Design Matters blog. George is a great teacher, woodworker and writer. He’s also hosted a series of DVDs all about design with Lie-Nielsen Toolworks and has started authoring a column at Popular Woodworking Magazine about the design [...]
