Using a Honing Guide
…achieve an exact angle, however there is a bit of leeway when sharpening as chisels can be sharpened anywhere between 25-35° and plane blades can be sharpened anywhere between 25-30°….
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12. Finishing
…shellac. Check that you are not pulling the grain up Your chisel should be newly sharpened You can now apply some finish Your chisels now have a safe home Why…
3. Setting the Marking Gauge
…The reason why you must set the pins to the chisel instead of just measuring is that the width of chisels vary noticeably according to the manufacturer. Therefore, make sure…
How To Make a Strop
…more on this we recommend the following from Paul’s blog: Making Your Own Strops Restoring Woodworking Gouges Buffing Compound for Chisels and Plane Irons Questions Answered: Strops On Strops and…
Using a Gouge
…hand grips the handle and is used to guide direction, the angle of presentation will determine if it is a deep or shallow cut. Similar to chisels, you want to…
The Spokeshave Guide
…of applications such as smoothing internal and external curves and rounding corners. It is often used to smooth the surface after cutting with chisels or saws. The spokeshave will shave…
The Woodworker’s Knife Guide
…wood, and then using a chisel to create a stepdown so that other tools (chisels, saws, etc) can be used to precisely align them to the knifewall. Whereas it is…
Using a Chisel Hammer
…the chisel hammer, we recommend the following from Paul’s blog: Hammers For Chisels– Many Choices Buying Good Tools Cheap- On Chisel Hammers My Minimalist Tool List- A Good Chisel Hammer…
Using a Chisel
…the wood with paring cuts Further Reading To read more on the chisel, we recommend the following from Paul’s blog: Chisel Unsurpassed Many Chisel Choices Questions on Chisels– Japanese, Western?…
The Rasp Guide
…chisels or saws. Rounded rasps are useful when working with concave areas in wood. Terminology Stitching – This is the process by which a small punch is used to create…