Comments for The Bespoke Woodworker

Comment on Temporary Shop by Jack

Jack — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:54:50 +0000

10 x 10 is exactly what I currently work out of, although I ocassionally spill out into the yard. The largest thing I’ve made recently in the shop is a floor-standing corner cabinet. It was cosy in there for a few weeks.

Comment on Creating a Compass Rose by Luana Pillion

Luana Pillion — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:19:34 +0000

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Comment on Fencing it in. by Jon

Jon — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:27:58 +0000

What about it is ’slap happy’? Its a fence and table. It locks in place solidly, and it gives me perfectly drilled holes, at an exact 90 degree angle, with now blowout on the backside. Seems to me, that is all you want in a table.

Would it have been better if I spent hours in sketchup, and worked to some kind of exact measurements? I’d much rather spend that time in the shop _building things_ and perfecting my skills.

Comment on Fencing it in. by Gerald Wells

Gerald Wells — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:25:24 +0000

Was appaled by the slap-happy way you described the construction of your table. I trust it was only in the description … and not in the actual construction ! Moreover it would be extremely difficult for a novist woodworker to follow your instruction and go from there to completeing his own. … far too many steps left out.

Comment on DeWalt 735 Planer Byrd Shelix Head Install by MRod

MRod — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:18:38 +0000

Thanks for the link to the install instructions, your right they are too hard to find.

Comment on Building Hand Tool Skills: A Dovetail a Day. Make that a week. by Sean

Sean — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:16:09 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I’m pretty new to hand cut dovetails and mine currently are closer to your “before” set than the current set. I was about to post on a forum “you are all liars! (^:” since everybodys’ ‘first hand cut dovetails’ always seem like they came out of a museum piece. Good to see that I’m not alone!!

Comment on Roubo Completed! by Caspar Labarre

Caspar Labarre — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:29:20 +0000

chalk the holes, this wil provide the gripp

Comment on DeWalt 735 Planer Byrd Shelix Head Install by Ramon Urbina

Ramon Urbina — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:35:27 +0000

Hey congrats on your planer, I also have the same planer and I want to upgrade to a Byrd shelix cutterhead in a near future. But I don’t know If is wise to do that because the dw735 is tremendous loud and I don’t know if the motor will last as much as the planer, maybe is better if I save a little more And buy a grizzly 15″ planer with the helix cuttterhead maybe I can sell my dw735 and buy the bigger planer but anyway enjoy you almost new planer. Thanks

Comment on Building Hand Tool Skills: A Dovetail a Day. Make that a week. by AlavalllahMon

AlavalllahMon — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:35:54 +0000

Amazing, I did not know about that up to now. Thanks!

Comment on Inlay Tools #3: Straight Line Cutter by Rick Roberts

Rick Roberts — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:12:46 +0000

Wonderful write-up. I will be trying to make these soon and am looking forward to the inlay slicer. One comment on the edge tool. It is not set up to score at a distance less than the width of your bottom inset. You will have need to score for an inlay pretty close to the edge.

Looking at the picture of the Lie-Nielsen, it seems the bottom part of the diamond shape mortise is cut back some to allow the cutter to move closer to the fence and allow for a line to be cut in as little as 1/8″ from the edge.

I’m sure it is an easy correction, but I am not as clever as you and need to have an example in front of me.

Please keep up the wonderful work.

Rick