Monthly Archives: February 2010

Marking Knife

I got a little shop time today, and made a new tool.  I recently cleared a bunch of space, and got a whole new corner for the shop which I share with the family storage area.  While I was cleaning the shop I found a broken jigsaw blade.  I read somewhere on the internet that [...]

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Mary Rose

I finally got a hold of a copy of “Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose” through inter library loan.  It a veritable treasure trove of information on woodworking and tools from 1500′s England.  So many of the wooden tools survived due to amazing and somewhat miraculous circumstances.  Much of the iron [...]

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