Equipment

A plane iron that sits at an angle leaves a blade that cuts deeper on one side than the other. […]

Fitting a timber door stop is a small job, but it rewards accurate hand-tool work. The stop needs to sit

End-grain timber is where a mediocre block plane shows its weaknesses. The cut can tear out at the far edge,

Flattening a short timber board by hand does not require the longest or most expensive plane in the cabinet. For

Bruising is the crushed, darkened or shiny-looking wood left beside a chisel cut. It is most common when chopping across

The mouth opening is the gap in a hand plane’s sole immediately ahead of the blade. It controls how much

Cutting a small recess in window timber is a precision job, not a brute-force chiselling exercise. The recess might be

A timber lap joint usually fails at the shoulders, not in the middle of the waste. A shoulder that is