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Fitting a Drawer Front
23 March

Work with the Cards You’re Dealt

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

An old deck of playing cards has so many uses in the shop. Everyone should have a deck in their cabinet.

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Cambered Plane Irons
18 March

How Much Camber Do You Put on That Plane?

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

Throughout my series of posts on milling lumber by hand, I used several different hand planes. Each of the planes that I used was chosen for the specific tasks that they excel at. The jack plane is the perfect size …

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Planing Walnut
15 March

How to Plane Boards Flat, Straight & Square

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

I just finished up writing a series of posts about milling lumber with hand tools. In the past, I’ve done several videos that cover the process pretty well. They’re older videos, but still valuable for seeing the process. Here’s one of the better ones.

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Common 17th Century Drawer Construction
12 March

How to Make and Use Drawer Slips

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

In the late 18th and into the 19th centuries, drawers with extremely thin, delicate sides become fashionable. While these very thin drawer sides look light and dainty, they present challenges for attaching drawer bottoms.

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Scrub Planing a Board to Thickness
10 March

How to Hand Plane a Board to Final Thickness

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Shop Tips
  • Comments 2 comments

The over sized board is flat on one face and has two edges that are both straight, square to the first face, and parallel to each other. I now have to make a decision about the board’s second face.

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How to Straighten the Edge of a Board with a Hand Plane
04 March

How to Plane the Edge of a Board Straight

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

To make the edge of a board straight, start with a hollow.

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Hand Planing the Edge of a Board Square
03 March

How to Plane the Edge of a Board Square

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

Making the edge of a board perfectly square to its face isn’t always necessary. When square edges are required, though, you had better know how to get there efficiently or you could be chasing your tail for a long time.

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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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