Review: Rockler’s Deluxe Panel Clamps
Panel clamps change the glue-up game
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STL: 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 […]
Read moreTurning the Corner: Pentagöet Inn Newel Posts
Fresh from New York City, the new, young owners of the Pentagöet Inn in Castine, Maine arrived two summers ago to embrace the long history of the Town and especially their beautiful building in a way that is both impressive and sustainable. Their vision and energy as owner/operators/hosts of this magnificent old-time, 130 year old […]
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