New Classes and a New Jointer Plane Kit, Coming Soon

Three Plane Class – August 2016 Make a Smoother, Jack, and Jointer with me in beautiful Asheville, NC The August Three Plane Class is now full! I will schedule another for later in the year, or next spring. I first mentioned the possibility of having this class last year, but I have wanted to offer … (Read More)

New Ready To Ship Planes, Plus, A New Class Idea.

Ready To Ship Planes and Spokeshaves Your workbench is begging for new shop friends! I wanted to share some of the recent additions to the Ready To Ship page. I am pretty proud of these planes. Hopefully, you will see something that begs to be added to your tool chest. The Brazilian Rosewood Block Plane … (Read More)

New Blade Width Options & The High Angle Smoother

New Width Options For Plane Irons Up until now, I only offered my planes with a 2″ wide blade (other than the Block Plane, of course). My only real reason for that is that I personally like them wider. Well, after hearing from a few potential customers that wished for thinner width options, I have … (Read More)

Woodworkers Fighting Cancer

Since 2010, Marc Spagnuolo, aka, The Wood Whisperer, has been holding an annual event called Woodworkers Fighting Cancer in order to raise money for cancer research. The following is their mission for this year: We are woodworkers united in the fight against cancer. Our goal for 2013 is to raise $10,000 for CancerCare, a national nonprofit … (Read More)

Glowing review of my planes

I recently received an order for a Tiger Maple Smoother from The Renaissance Woodworker, Shannon Rogers. Shannon also is the man behind The Hand Tool School, an online, subscription based source of a wealth of hand tool knowledge and instruction. He and I had talked on a few previous occasions about developing some sort of … (Read More)

Announcing an exclusive partnership with The Hand Tool School

Check out this video from Shannon Rogers, the man behind The Renaissance Woodworker and The Hand Tool School, unboxing some planes I sent him this week. I’m really excited about this opportunity to partner with Shannon and The Hand Tool School and to soon announce the exclusive deals for HTS members. I’m in great company there, with … (Read More)

Why I Do What I Do, Part 1

When a Craftsman of to-day sets to work to make a chair, the knowledge which he takes so much for granted is the stored-up inheritance of generations of craftsmen who had preceded him. He is profiting by their discoveries, their failures, and adding whatever of its own particular worth in new processes the present age … (Read More)

Low Chest with Drawer

I’m realizing a couple things in my designs I’m doing lately. I like designing with curves. I love the life it adds to a relatively simple basic form. Imagine the piece below with all straight lines, it would be pretty boring, missing anything that would catch your eye or add life to the space it … (Read More)