This morning we did our final delivery of the year, dropping off two boxes of supplies to Andover foodbank in Ducky the Morris Minor! Have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year 🥳
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.....Are now available! Thinking of gifting a one or two day Woodworking Course course this Christmas?
With an increasing selection of course options on offer our new Gift Vouchers are a great gift idea for many occasions, including Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, retirements and of course Mother’s Day and Father’s Day! A woodworking course offers more than just a great experience... It offers the opportunity to learn new skills that can be used and enjoyed for years to come, it could also prove to be a gateway to a very fulfilling new hobby! Gift Vouchers are available from the workshop or can be posted out to you. Please get in touch for more information! Welcome to November’s tool of the month, this month it is the panel gauge! The panel gauge is basically a larger version of a marking gauge. It has a longer shaft and a larger fence and is designed to mark parallel lines on wide boards. Some will use a sharp pin to scratch a line, mine uses a small single bevelled blade which gives a cleaner line. Some panel gauges use a pencil instead of a blade/pin which is handy for rougher marking or when drawing a full size template/drawing. The shaft on my Lie Nielsen version can be turned around and has a slotted hole to put a pencil in.
That’s it for November, look out for the next Tool of the Month blog post! I think I’m going to need a bigger box.... For the last 6 months I’ve slowly been putting together a basic hand tool kit for people to use whilst on my courses. It’s made up of new and used hand tools I’ve been recommending to new woodworkers for the last few years and strikes a good balance between quality and cost!
September’s tool of the month is the chisel plane!
It’s a very simple looking tool, being little more than a wedge with a blade on top of it. However it’s pretty handy for several tasks such as removing glue squeeze-out, flushing pegs and for getting into awkward corners plus the ends of rebates. That’s all for September look out for the next tool of the month blog post soon. This months tool is the router plane! These days the word ‘router’ either has people thinking about internet connections or loud high speed hand held machinery! (My particular router plane predates both... early part of the 20th century). Router planes were used for accurately leveling all kinds of recesses for example halving joints, grooves, hinge mortises and stopped rebates or grooves where a chisel cannot reach. Today you can do all of those things and more with a hand held electric router, but sometimes it’s nice not having to wear ear protection and sometimes the router plane is faster to set up! Router planes have been around for a very very long time and were originally made from wood! Another commonly used name for this tool is ‘Grannies Tooth’ due to its single blade poking out! Look out for September’s blog post 👀
This months tool is the flush cut saw! The flush cut saw has a thin flexible blade with teeth that have little to no set, and cuts on the pull stroke like a Japanese saw. It is designed to trim excess tenons, pegs and dowels so that they are flush with the surrounding surface without the saw blade digging in. I use an inexpensive Irwin pull saw which costs around £10 and uses a replaceable blade, it’s mainly used for cutting off the wedges on Stable Stools like the photo below. That’s all for July, look out for August’s tool of the month!
Welcome to June’s Tool of the Month post! This month a super fast look at a handy tool everybody has used.... the calculator! There really isn’t very much to say about the calculator only that it is very helpful in the workshop for working out all kinds of things from joint layout to converting cutting lists into cubic feet. No matter how good at maths you are a calculator is always worth having!
That’s it for June, look out for July’s Tool of the Month! We have recently completely revamped the tuition and courses part of the website, this has been under development for a while and there’s still more to come later in the year!
The main focus of this update is the creation of five brand new one day courses aimed at new and hobbyist woodworkers. The new courses tackle subjects that I am most frequently asked for advice about, while offering these as one day courses has the added benefit of being easier to fit around my normal workload and for the prospective ‘student’ to fit their diary. For more information about these new courses please visit the link below! Meet Ducky the Morris Minor we collected tonight! We are looking forward to having lots of adventures with her. 🦆 Built in 1968 and originally purchased and first registered in Hastings in East Sussex, Ducky is in surprisingly original condition, the glass is all original and it appears the interior is too. Mechanically she’s running sweetly with everything working! Cosmetically it could do with some tidying up and getting the rusty bits sorted out, so far it only seems to be pretty light areas of corrosion no massive rotten sections so that’s good! |
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