I like this little bevel plane, it makes a lot of happy little curls
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Fixed up the roof supports of the firewood store. The old were sitting on soil and rotting away.

Jacked up the roof beam, cut out the rotten old support and pulled it out. Filled the hole with smashed up concrete debris and drilled a hole through a large chunk, hammered a piece of rebar through and left it sticking out to fit into a hole I drilled into the new log. No more rotting.

Then new supports cut, shaped and installed x3.

I like it. The size of a No. 6, apparently. English made.

Could probably make one like this out of an old body of any brand.

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The mallet I made two years ago from firewood logs is returning to its original purpose, splitting after lots of hard use.

Made a new head from green applewood. Heard somewhere it's clever to make the handle from dry and the head from green wood so the head shrinks onto the handle. We'll find out if this works. I suspect it might just crack. Or shrink away from the handle. Time will tell.

Anyways, I can whack stuff again!

In the Summer of 2023 I built a six-stick comb back chair, following Christopher Schwarz's instructions in the Stick Chair Book. https://lehy.github.io/2025/04/02/Premi-re-chaise-barreaux.html #woodworking