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Up over my assembly table, I’ve got a small wall-hanging bookshelf I knocked together in an afternoon. This is where I keep the woodworking books that I reference when I’m in the shop. The most significant book in my collection is The Anarchist’s Design Book by Christopher Schwarz. You’ll see Schwarz come up a lot… Read full post

Here’s a look at my most frequently used planes. This is my most-used plane, a Stanley No 5 from around 1920. It was one of my first planes, and I’ve used it on every piece of furniture I’ve built. It’s good for doing medium-sized flattening jobs, quickly taking lots of material off of board edges,… Read full post

Let’s take a look around my workshop! Here’s my workbench, where I do most of my work. It’s built from Chris Schwarz’s Nicholson Workbench plans. I initially built it without the leg vise, but I quickly added a vise in after finding the bench hook in the plans to be insufficient. Most work is done… Read full post