Made You Look: An overcomplicated but fun shooting board
Sometimes an overcomplicated version of a simple project, like a shooting board, is just plain fun (plane fun? HA!).
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Review: Rockler’s Deluxe Panel Clamps
Panel clamps change the glue-up game
Read moreSTL: MTC-Not how it’s always been done
Hague Haswell and Vic Tesolin of Melbourne Tool Company join Ben to discuss what it’s like to start a hand tool company from scratch.
Read moreMoxon’s Technique
Bill Pavlak helps us get past the hard-to-read parts of Joseph Moxon’s “Mechanick Exercises” to discover a great way of cleaning up miters with a hand plane.
Read moreTurning the Corner: Unexpected Porch Post
With an historic preservation grant and vision for a return to the past elegance, the new owners of the Pentagöet Inn in Castine, Maine asked me to create and turn the four new newel posts they needed for the renovated main entrance from the street. Their contractors did an impressive job, and the newel posts […]
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