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Reference Face and Edge
23 June

Orientation Marks, Reference Marks, and Layout – Part 2

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

Orientation marks are not the same thing as reference marks, which are used to identify a flat, straight, and square face, edge and corner.  So today, I want to go over the reference marks.

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18 June

Orientation Marks, Reference Marks, and Layout – Part 1

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

Some additional thoughts and perspective on reference marks and layout from reader Willard “Bill” Anderson and myself.

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12 June

Video: Using Proper Reference Surfaces for Layout

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

When working by hand, minor inconsistencies in thickness or parallelism between faces or edges can cause major problems with joinery if the reference face and edge are ignored.

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05 June

Video: How to Camber a Plane Blade Without a Grinder

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

In today’s video I’ll show you how to camber a plane iron without a grinder.

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02 June

Video: How to Camber a Hand Plane Blade with a Grinder

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

In this video, I demonstrate using a high speed grinder to camber the cutting edge of a jack plane blade.

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Planing with the hollow molding plane
27 May

Video: How to Make a Molding with Hollows and Rounds

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

In this video I’m making a simple waist molding that serves to draw the eye upwards from the floor and transition from a lower case to an upper case.

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01 April

Video: Repairing Small Cracks in Furniture

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

I just finished building a Welsh style stick chair, but when assembling the arm and spindles to the seat, a small crack opened up in the arm. Here’s a cool trick for repairing these small cracks when a glue brush or syringe won’t fit.

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30 March

Repairing Small Cracks in Projects

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

It’s inevitable. No matter how careful you are fitting your joinery, doing dry assemblies to check fit, and rehearsing your assembly process to make sure you have everything in place and ready to go, Murphy is going to show up from time to time and throw a little hiccup into things.

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20 March

Using Saw Reflection for Square Cuts – Practical or Parlor Trick?

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

If you’ve been around woodworking hand tools for a while, you’ve likely heard of the hand saw hack that lets you saw perfectly square across a board without the aid of a pencil line to guide your cut. Wait! You haven’t seen this before? Here, hold my beer.

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16 March

Video: Three Tips for More Precise Hand Sawing

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

Try these three tips to improve your hand sawing.

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13 March

Body Mechanics for Precision Hand Sawing

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

While sawing precisely by hand may seem like black magic when you’re first learning, the secret to precision hand sawing, if you can call it that, is starting the cut precisely, and proper body mechanics during the cut.

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11 March

Video: How to Start a Hand Saw Cut

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

In this video, I demonstrate an exercise I call “saw without sawing”. This short exercise helps to teach the new hand saw user what it feels like to take the weight of the saw off of the wood when starting a cut with a hand saw, and makes for more precise cuts.

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