Buying a new tool is a lovely day. If you’re like me, you’ve spent hours researching and making sure you’re making the right choice. I spend hours reading forums, watching videos, and trying out demonstration examples when possible. I consummate the relationship with a handful of numbers on a piece of plastic. Once home, I […]
Sometimes an overcomplicated version of a simple project, like a shooting board, is just plain fun (plane fun? HA!).
Made You Look: An overcomplicated but fun shooting board Read More »
Panel clamps change the glue-up game
Review: Rockler’s Deluxe Panel Clamps Read More »
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.
STL: MTC-Not how it’s always been done Read More »
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.
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 […]
Turning the Corner: Unexpected Porch Post Read More »