I have wanted to make a smaller smoother for awhile now, and when I finally did, I was even happier with it than I had thought I would be. It is a really fun plane to use, and incredibly useful. At 7 inches long, it is about an inch and a half shorter than its … (Read More)
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 Ready To Ship High Angle Smoothers At a length of 8″ and an iron bedded at 60°, my High Angle Smoother excels at tackling the toughest wood grain you can throw at it. I’ve recently added two of them to my Ready To Ship page. The first is Osage Orange with an Ipe wedge … (Read More)
I’ve just added these two new planes to the Ready To Ship page. The first is a 22″ Mesquite and African Blackwood Jointer. I love these Mesquite Jointers, but finding decent material for them is so tough. I wish I could make it a regular option. The stability and weight make this one incredible plane. The … (Read More)
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)
My friends at Sterling Tool Works recently announced their amazing new plane hammer. I was one of the lucky few who received an early prototype, which I’ve been using in my shop since. I love this hammer so much, that after only a week of using it, I talked to Chris about making some exclusively for … (Read More)
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)
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)
I decided to build my own wooden hand plane after seeing planes from Larry Marshall and Kari Hultman. Making a wooden plane is almost a craftsmans right of passage, like a Jedi building his own lightsaber. (Sorry, should have issued a nerd alert.) It is an extremely fulfilling project and can provide some great learning … (Read More)