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Using Winding Sticks to Check Board for Twist
01 March

How to Plane the First Face of a Board Flat

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips
  • Comments 0 comment

Processing rough sawn lumber starts by addressing the reference face.

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25 February

Skip Planing to Address Wood Movement

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips, Videos
  • Comments 4 comments

One way to mitigate wood movement that can occur after planing is to not plane the wood to final dimensions right away. This is often referred to as skip planing, and it’s a technique can aid in keeping wood flat whether working by hand or machine.

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Board Warp Cup Bow Crook Twist
22 February

To Efficiently Flatten Rough Lumber, Start with a Saw

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips
  • Comments 5 comments

All boards are warped to some degree. Usually, starting with the saw is more efficient than starting with the plane.

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Planing Walnut
19 February

Why Learn to Flatten and Square Boards by Hand?

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips
  • Comments 1 comment

If you have a power jointer, and flatten board faces on it, you might think that knowing how to do this task by hand is useless, antiquated knowledge. However, there are several reasons why I recommend you learn this valuable skill.

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Shrunken Wooden Plane Wedge
17 February

Troubleshooting and Tuning Wooden Hand Planes

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips, Tools
  • Comments 0 comment

A few posts ago I talked about dealing with a badly warped blade from a wooden bodied hand plane, and then addressing issues with the bed of a wooden plane. These posts might suggest that wooden bodied hand planes are not as reliable or as functional as their iron siblings and that they’re not worth the effort to bother trying to use. However, nothing could be further from the truth.

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Tuning the Bed of a Wooden Hand Plane
12 February

Tuning the Bed of a Wooden Hand Plane

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips, Tools, Videos
  • Comments 0 comment

Sometimes, tuning up a wooden hand plane requires a little more than sharpening the blade and flattening the sole.

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Warped Plane Iron
10 February

Sharpening a Badly Warped Plane Iron

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips, Tools
  • Comments 1 comment

WARNING: If you are a sharpening purist or a flat back Nazi, stop reading this right now, go to your safe place, and watch a few cat videos. If you ignore this advice, understand that what you are about to read is guaranteed to trigger you in ways that you’ve never imagined. Continue at your own risk.

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Rustic Reclaimed American Chestnut Barn Wood Coat Rack
07 February

American Chestnut Coat Rack Finale

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Projects, Shop Tips
  • Comments 0 comment

Applying finish to the parts of a project before assembly of the piece solves some problems that can occur when finish is applied after assembly.

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Match Planing
04 February

Edge Jointing Using the Match Planing Method

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Joinery, Shop Tips, Videos
  • Comments 0 comment

Match planing is a method whereby two boards are placed face-to-face and their mating edges are planed simultaneously. If you aren’t familiar with the technique, allow me to present you with a crash course.

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Scraping the curves smooth
27 January

How to Sharpen and Burnish a Card Scraper

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips, Tools, Videos
  • Comments 1 comment

I use card scrapers a lot in my work. They’re not only extremely valuable for smoothing areas of difficult long grain, I also use them all the time for cleaning up and smoothing end grain as well. However, for a …

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Straighten and Tension a Bent Hand Saw
04 December

How to Straighten and Tension a Hand Saw

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips, Tools, Videos
  • Comments 1 comment

Just about everyone who has ever used a hand saw has bent or kinked a saw in use at some point. Sometimes the bend springs back, and sometimes it doesn’t. However, bending a saw doesn’t necessarily relegate it to becoming scraper stock or wall art. In many, if not most cases, the saw can probably be straightened out again.

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Milk Paint
01 December

How to Mix and Use Milk Paint

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips, Videos
  • Comments 0 comment

Milk paint is an easy finish to apply, and gives pieces a beautiful and lively color with lots of character. Here’s my method for mixing and applying it.

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