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Josh, an experienced hand tool guy wants a recommendation for a good “first power tool”. I am new to The Guild, but looking forward to the upcoming builds. I am a hand tool guy and have everything I need to complete a project with hand tools. However, after attending classes at Kelly ...
What does it mean to be a woodworker? Most would probably agree that at the most basic level, a woodworker is one who uses tools to shape objects out of wood. Fair enough. But today’s modern woodworker has to be so much more than that. Some of this is self-inflicted punishment for “need...
It seems that most new woodworkers follow a backwards path these days: power tools first and hand tools second. So whether you go full-on Neanderthal or you end up employing the hybrid system, learning the proper use of hand tools will indeed improve your woodworking. So where do you go to learn?...
ur friends at these magazines. I have a great respect for what they do and I believe their reviews can be incredibly useful and insightful. However, feed rates, variations in test boards, flaws in test apparatuses and theory, variability in the tool itself, and opinions, all lead to less than con...
elevant to new woodworkers. This page just kept growing so I decided it would be best to simply break this information out into a whole new reference website. This new website will not be something that is updated daily or anything like that. Its simply a resource to help new woodworkers wade thro...
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I’ve got a 1 car garage shop that is only a shop when the wife’s car is not in it. Lots of bench top tools and rolling carts. I’ve been ramping up my skills and tools the last couple of years after discovering Marc, Whispering and the Guild – all which give me inspiration an...
This week’s question comes from Shawn. He writes: Hey Marc, I really enjoy your web site, keep up the great work. I’m thinking about going into woodworking full time and my shop now has more table top tools than big industrial tools. If money was not an issue which manufacturer of to...
h. Its a full-size work table with a full shelf of storage. Perhaps the best part of all is the fact that it can be made with a modest collection of tools and just a few sheets of plywood. No fancy joinery here! This is what I like to call, a “Can Do” project. Enjoy! For those who ...
It isn’t often that a new tool comes along and stirs things up in the woodworking world (the Domino and Steel City’s granite offerings come to mind as recent examples). So I always get excited when I see an invention or innovation that makes us question the way we do things in our shop...
e first picture shows my dad’s Craftsman table saw in the center of the shop. The saw had a “big” 7″ blade and “gravity feed” dust collection. (Sawdust just dropped into a big drawer in the cabinet base he constructed for the saw.)” “As you can see fr...
I was just thinking about something and I know I can’t be the only one. As a self-proclaimed “hybrid woodworker”, I try to balance hand tools and power tools in a way that makes the most sense for the job at hand. This is a method of work that takes a certain amount of time and ...