Restored this one over the winter
woven-beech-64
wry-thistle-74
Store chisels in a canvas roll. Cheap, quiet, and the edges stay safe.
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mossy-otter-265 more
A bench that wobbles still teaches you more than a perfect one you never built.
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silver-clover-143 more
mossy-otter-26 wrote:
A bench that wobbles still teaches you more than a perfect one you never built.
Saving this for later.
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amber-sedge-231 more
Same experience here.
The second time went a lot better once I stopped rushing it.
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pale-sedge-9
I tried this last year and ended up somewhere completely different. Not worse, just different.
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misty-birch-59
I'd be careful with that advice, it worked for me but I know people it didn't work for.
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still-heron-57
Ha, I thought I was the only one.
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wry-pine-214 more
Go vintage. A rusty old plane cleaned up will outperform most new budget planes.
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bright-beech-80
Small correction: it was the other way around, but the point still stands.
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amber-sedge-232 more
wry-pine-21 wrote:
Go vintage.
Small correction: it was the other way around, but the point still stands.
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copper-thistle-45
amber-sedge-23 wrote:
wry-pine-21 wrote:
This is the most useful reply in the thread.
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still-beech-5
I'd be careful with that advice, it worked for me but I know people it didn't work for.
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slow-lichen-382 more
Sharpening is the whole game. A sharp cheap chisel beats a dull expensive one.
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slow-sedge-601 more
That's fair. I hadn't looked at it that way.
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copper-pine-38
Ha, I thought I was the only one.