Monthly Archives: May 2010
Hook Tools
I just ordered a set of Traditional style hook tools from Hilton Handcraft. For use on my Pole Lathe. I had been considering these a while ago, then I lost this site. I am going to bust out the Pole Lathe again and see if I can make a few bowls this summer. Having the [...]
Book Review: The Joiner and Cabinet Maker
Book review time! As I promised a few posts back, I’m going to write up my thoughts on this book and share them with you all. The book is “The Joiner and the Cabinet Maker” by Moskowitz and Schwartz. It’s available here at Lost Art Press for $29 by itself, or $34 with a companion [...]
Books
Tonight after a scrumptious dinner of Sushi with the family, we went next door to the book store. I found an interesting set of books that look like fun. Called “The Modern Carpenter, Joiner, and Cabinet-Maker” it’s a reprint of a 1902 printing, with a new forward by Roy Underhill. For $6 a volume, I [...]
My first PNTC Meeting
I found a local tool collectors group. Woo! It took a little digging, but I found a local tool collecting group that had a lot of the old tools I can’t find any other place. I found it fairly non linearly, but I attended my first meeting today. I had to get a hold of [...]
Look what followed me home…
Had a lovely weekend out in Port Angeles where I was on child wrangling duty, in support of the lovely wife who had a thing this weekend out there. While we were there, I spied this nice old jointer plane in an antique store. He looked lonely but I didn’t really need another plane (shhh… [...]
Oak Furniture The British Tradition Reprinted? Yes!
Carving in Alder
Oilstone Sharpening Level Up!