Matt | April 7, 2010
Hi everyone, In case you haven’t noticed the slight absence of content so far this week, it’s because I’ve taken a last minute Spring Break Hiatus from the shows (Matt’s Basement Workshop, The Daily Matt and of also The Spoken Wood). I wish I could report I’m sending this post from some sunny beach someplace [...]
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 24, 2010
While I had originally planned for today’s episode to be a look at the different ways I use my block plane. What I decided to do instead for this episode, was to demonstrate how and what I prefer to tweak on a block plane. Just like with any other tool, there are some key parts [...]
Matt | March 21, 2010
Today’s episode is being posted a day earlier than normal, but with good reason. I wanted to give everyone a chance to clear their schedules for the next Live Wood Talk Online, which will be Monday March 22nd, 2010 at 9PM ET. If you can make your way over to www.thewoodwhisperer.com/live join us in the [...]
Matt | February 24, 2010
It’s time to move from bench planes to specialty planes. While bench planes are very vesatile tools that can be used for multiple tasks, specialty planes are very single task oriented. But when you choose the right one, that task is done extremely well and quickly! With specialty planes there are two families. One is [...]
