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The Woodworking Shed<p>Okay, woodworkers! 🤓 </p><p>I'm curious to know which resources helped you the most when you were starting out? </p><p>Was it a book, a YouTube channel, or another woodworker? 🪚 </p><p>I'm always looking for more ways to learn (and try to avoid making ALL the mistakes myself!)...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/handtools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handtools</span></a></p>
The Woodworking Shed<p>Looking back, what's the one thing you'd tell your past woodworking self? 🤔 </p><p>As someone just starting out, I'm taking in all the knowledge I can get! </p><p>What's the most valuable tip you've learned? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/handtools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handtools</span></a></p>
wedge<p>I like it. The size of a No. 6, apparently. English made.</p><p>Could probably make one like this out of an old body of any brand.</p><p><a href="https://woodworking.group/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a><br><a href="https://woodworking.group/tags/handtools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handtools</span></a></p>
wedge<p>This must be a cooper’s (tonnelier’s) plane. It’s huge. That iron is at least 10cm wide. If so, we would be looking at the bottom of the plane beam (edge side faces up). But I don’t see any place for mounting the spindle legs. Granted the length is cut off in this photo. Speaking of which, it seems rather long, even for a cooper’s plane. I’m not totally convinced. Paul Bunyans’s plane, maybe.</p><p><a href="https://woodworking.group/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <br><a href="https://woodworking.group/tags/handtools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handtools</span></a></p>

I’ve not bought an old tool lately. I was jonesing. So I picked up this older Darex 110 block plane. 5 €.

Darex made a few block plane sizes, small to large: 101, 102, 110, 130, 131. The smallest, most rare, is a tiny thing, almost like a luthier’s plane. The two largest (always frog green paint) have reversible iron positions.

The 110+ have knobs. The oldest have wood knobs with screws, like this one. Then plastic (no visible screw) in one of 3 colors.

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Pulling down to resaw a board with the Ryoba is much nicer than bending over the board and pulling up (ouch my lower back!)

i found that clamping to saw horses can turn it 90deg (upright) easily.

Next I'll try combining 1 saw horse for clamping, 1 saw horse for holding the "bench" (atedai) at an angle, and then maybe saw with less wobble

This is Absolutely amazing and inspiring.

No dialogue. No intro. No credits. No brands or sponsors. Few nails.

One person with basic tools (hand saws, machete, hatchet, chisels, twine) builds "floating barracks"/homestead entirely out of riverside bamboo over the course of a year. Four hours, twenty-one minutes runtime.

#aquaculture #architecture #bamboo #diy #handtools #homesteading #river #sustainability #youtube #garden #agriculture #fish #craft #construction

youtube.com/watch?v=n9FUoXuMd3

Picked up a set of 4 Stanley Sweetheart socket chisels. Now for my very least favorite task in all of hand toolery: flattening new chisel backs. It seems I always get at least one convex back which takes forever to flatten. 3 of the Stanleys flattened easily. Of course, the 1" had to be the hunchback. 😩