Matt | March 14, 2010
Block planes are small but extremely versatile tools that fit into your shop regardless of whether your a powertool user or a handtool user. Block planes fall in the family of bench planes and can be used for just about every job from rough to finish. There is some confusion about the standard and low-angle [...]
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 [...]
Matt | February 17, 2010
For today’s episode we have a question from a listener regarding how to adjust the blade of a wooden bodied plane. As I had discussed earlier, wooden bodied planes don’t have mechanical adjusters like their metal-bodied cousins. But adjusting them is practically just as easy. All it takes for quick adjustments is a small hammer [...]
Matt | February 14, 2010
Today’s post is all about a great project being put together by our very own Marc Spagnoluo The Wood Whisperer. Cancer is a horrible disease that touches so many of us. While we’ve made great advances in research and treatment it’s something we’re far from a cure for. But that doesn’t mean we can’t try [...]
Matt | February 10, 2010
Today let’s talk about wooden bodied hand planes. While the majority of us these days are only familiar with metal-bodied planes, the wooden version are just as usable and give equally amazing results when properly tuned. Is there a big difference in the shop when using them? With the limited experience I’ve had, they perform [...]
