Make Your Own Grooving Plane

James Wright Grooving Plane, Hand Tool, Hand Tool Projects, Handplane, October 2025 #285, Projects, Shop Projects, toolmaking

This traditional plane is a fun way to cut grooves, and can be made in half of a day. The grooving plane is a hand tool that is faster than a power tool that will do the same task. Not …
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Inside Look: Tool Manufacturing at Harvey Industries

Logan Wittmer Hand Tool, Harvey Woodworking, Interviews, Manufacturing, October 2025 #285, toolmaking, Woodworking Machines

A Rare Look Into A Chinese Tool Manufacturer. Recently, I received an invite for a rare opportunity — a chance to travel from the US to China to visit a Chinese tool manufacturer. From a personal standpoint, a trip like …
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Bespoke Toolmaker: Ironbark Toolworks

Logan Wittmer Bespoke Toolmaker, February 2025 #282, Hand Tool, Interviews, People and Places, toolmaker, toolmaking

Devon Campbell is designing and building world-class tools from his shop in Queensland. Sometimes, the universe has a way of connecting the dots, whether you’re looking for it to or not. Back before the last Handworks Tool Show in the …
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Bespoke Toolmaker: Honey Brook Tools

Logan Wittmer April 2023 #270, Bespoke Toolmaker, Interviews, People and Places, toolmaker, toolmaking

Vermont-based toolmaker Will Adams offers some of the best hand-made tools around. A marking knife. There are few tools that can, nearly instantly, increase the accuracy of a woodworker’s work. But for Vermont-based toolmaker Will Adams, a marking knif…

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Laminated Coping Saw

Ryan Carpenter Coping Saw, October 2023 #274, Projects, Saw, Shop Projects, toolmaking

This project brings together a diverse set of skills including epoxy work, bent lamination, metalworking, turning, and riveting. Project #2316 • Skill Level: Intermediate • Time: 4 Days • Cost: $75 Chopping vs. coping dovetail waste can be a fiercely &…

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