And the schwag winners are…

Matt | July 2, 2010

It’s time once again to find out who this month’s SCHWAG GIVEAWAY WINNERS ARE on Matt’s Basement Workshop. If you didn’t have your name entered for this month’s drawing, don’t worry…I’m all ready starting to accept names for July’s giveaway. So just make sure you get your name in as soon as you [...]

437 The Smoothing Planes

Matt | June 23, 2010

THE ORIGINAL VIDEO FOR THIS EPISODE WAS BAD, SO IT’S BEEN REPLACED. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE!
We wrap up our discussion of the bench planes today with a discussion about Smoothing Planes. Next to the Jack Planes, the smoothers are probably one of the more common planes in the shop. In the Stanley [...]

Spoken Wood Podcast No.55

Matt | June 20, 2010

Today’s episode is titled “Riving Knives Everything Old Is New Again” and was written by Robert W. Lang for Popular Woodworking’s “Editors’ Blog”, posted February 2, 2009.
To find more great posts like this written by Bob or any of the other staff at Popular Woodoworking visit the Editors’ Blog at http://blogs.popularwoodworking.com/editorsblog.

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Spoken Wood Podcast No.54

Matt | June 17, 2010

Today’s episode was written and recorded by Ron Hock of Hock Tools and the “Sharpening Blog”. The post is titled “Abrasive Personalities Part Deux” and was originally posted November 5, 2009.
To read this article or the other 3 parts to this series on abrasives (2 more to be released on this show in the [...]

435 Jointer Planes

Matt | June 16, 2010

Moving along with our discussion of bench planes it’s time to take a look at the jointer planes. The jointers are our middle of the road tools. These are the tools we reach for once we’ve taken our stock from it’s rough cut faces and edges, leveled out the big hills and valleys [...]