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Combination Square Bushing Removed
10 January

Repairing a Loose Combination Square Scriber

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

A quality combination square usually comes with a steel scriber. However, sometimes the bushing that’s supposed to hold the scriber in the handle, doesn’t.

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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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19 May

Video: How to Make a Wooden Try Square

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

You can never have too many squares in the shop, and wooden ones are super easy to make, in any size you need, even if you don’t already have a square.

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14 July

June 2019 Patron Q&A Video

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Q & A, Tools, Videos
  • Comments 0 comment

In this video, I discuss reference faces and edges, combination planes, dado planes, and rabbet planes.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
26 September

HTT035 – Sliding Dovetails

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
  • Comments 0 comment

On today’s show, I discuss  paring yellow pine end grain, using cambered irons to square board edges, making moldings with a combination plane, more on reference surfaces, and sliding dovetails.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
12 September

HTT034 – Proper Use of Reference Surfaces

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
  • Comments 2 comments

On today’s show, I discuss  a method for ensuring that large workbench leg mortises are square, controlling rust on items that can’t be stored in a tool chest, saw wrests, and and proper use of reference surfaces.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
29 August

HTT033 – Sharpening Systems

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
  • Comments 2 comments

On today’s show, I discuss  mouth opening on wooden planes, marking knives, leveling the bottoms of deep mortises, cambering a plane iron with a honing guide, and sharpening systems.

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Hand Tools & Techniques Podcast
13 September

HTT011 – Dust Control in the Hand Tool Shop

  • Posted by Bob Rozaieski
  • Categories Audio
  • Comments 5 comments

On today’s show, I discuss tool acquisition as a new woodworker, cutting up old saws, repairing a twisted frame and panel door, accuracy vs. precision, and dust control.

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