A Week of Planing Boards
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Hand tools are slower, quieter and strangely calming. The first twelve weeks were mainly about unlearning.
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I wrote most of this on a quiet Saturday morning. None of this is new, and that is partly why it works.
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Hand tools are slower, quieter and strangely calming.
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Most of what I know about drawers came from getting it wrong first. Good oak is mainly a series of small, unglamorous decisions.
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A sharp chisel is safer than a dull one, and much more pleasant.
Sharpening in Summer
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The joint fit on the third attempt, which is about average.
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The workbench is the first project and never the last. The trick, if there is one, is to leave sufficient room for slip-ups. Continue