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    Windsor Chairs

    I mentioned in my last post two different types of auger bit, and in particular a Gedge or Cooks pattern auger. If you dig into the Windsor chair literature you'll find a few quite influential makers enthusing about these augers, mainly because they cut very clean entry holes even when the drill...
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    Windsor Chairs

    The last part of the Windsor Chair jigsaw puzzle is selecting the drills and bits. With "staked" or Windsor style furniture, where the components are all socketed into the seat (or table top, etc), then your drill is effectively your jointing machine, a kind of pre-industrial Festool Domino! So...
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    Windsor Chairs

    Thanks to Pete Maddox for the perfect segue, I'm glad he showed his beautifully home crafted tapering tool because tapering is what I'd like to come onto next! What defines Windsor furniture is that the legs and other components are socketed into the seat, so instead of square mortice and tenon...
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    Windsor Chairs

    I recently mentioned that I was working on some Windsor chairs, and said I'd post a photo. I don't want to ambush another thread so I'll start a fresh one. I completed one set of Windsor chairs last year and that's led to another commission of eight chairs. This time for a "harlequin set" in...
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    David Charlesworth

    Sad news, David Charlesworth has passed away. He gave a great deal to an awful lot of woodworkers all around the world.
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    Steamed Swiss Pear

    You can find quite heavily figured Steamed Pear, over the years I've bought a fair bit from Timberline, boards like this, Incidentally, I believe the plain stuff is often used for model making, apparently because the grain on Swiss Pear is so compact that it's barely visible, consequently the...
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    Holtey Hammer

    Back in the days when I had a proper job, and could afford rather more in the way of indulgences, I treated myself to a couple of Karl Holtey planes. It seems I've subsequently remained on his mailing lists, even though as an actual furniture maker these days it's of course laughable that I...
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    New step up/ sawhorse, swine of a joint.

    Sawhorses with a double splay just sort of look "right", so that's generally how I make 'em! They take a bit more time in the setting out, but once the layout work is done they're fairly quick to make. I can make two pairs in a day and I'm sure any traditional joiner would have been able to...
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    Breadmaking Machine

    Interesting that bread making is proving such a popular topic on a woodworking forum. Like many others I first tried baking bread during lockdown, and was struck at how similar to woodworking the experience was. There's an old expression that says to master one craft is to master them all, in...
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    Vice Disaster

    That's kind of you to say Loads, but it's really just a very basic bench with a birch ply drawer cabinet slung underneath. I'm a big proponent of drawers under benches, I much prefer them to tool chests or to cupboards. Of course a lot depends on what you make and how you make it, but for the...
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    Vice Disaster

    I made a second bench for my workshop a month or two ago, and fitted an older style 52 1/2. Interestingly the older style vice had webbing cast into it that may well have prevented the breakage you experienced, you can see the webbing in this photo. I don't know when Record changed the design...
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    Rust

    This is a bit of a video nasty, it's a time-lapse of tool steel corroding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-xKbDN ... e=youtu.be
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    router Plane design

    The main shortcoming with Router Planes IMO is that they don't have the extended sweep to tackle jobs like levelling large tenons. Many users make a detachable base to extend the sole. Here's mine for example, The trade-off with all these shop made add ons is between rigidity and retaining...
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