A small router plane is one of the handiest hand planes you can have in your tool box. With this tool, you can reach down into a dado, groove, or mortise and shave the bottom to fine tune the joinery. It’s also useful for making inlays, setting hinges, and installing other hardware. Nick shows how to make a handsome, capable router plane from a scrap of wood, a piece of plastic, and an Allen wrench! If you would like the plans for this router plane -- including full-size patterns for the base an
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Possibly the most satisfying – and certainly the most iconic – activities in all of woodworking is planning with a bench plane. Effortlessly cutting a paper-thin shaving from a wood surface makes you feel that you have arrived as a craftsman. But getting a plane in condition to make those effortless cuts requires careful, painstaking flattening, sharpening, and adjusting. This is what is called “tuning” a plane. Nick takes a deep dive into this essential procedure, not just showing you how to do
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We’ve been steam bending 1-inch wooden dowels to make wooden bicycle handlebars for a replica of a Wright “Van Cleve” bicycle. In the 1890s, just as bicycles became popular, cyclists had to put up with constant shocks when riding over unimproved roads. Some bicycle manufacturers, like the Wright brothers, used wooden handle bars to help smooth out the bumps – the wood gave slightly with each impact, just like the wooden handle on a hammer gives each time you strike a nail. Check out our YouTube
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Imagine a bench plane with a disposable knife. You never need worry about the iron getting dull, chipping the cutting edge, or setting the plane on a hard surface. If the plane won’t cut, just pop in a new knife. Great idea, but can this wonder cut as well as a conventional bench plane with a traditional iron? Nick does a thorough comparison, pitting the Rali Evolution and its disposable knives against an expertly tuned 70-year-old Stanley smoothing plane. If you think a Rali plane might be righ
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We've all been there. You're just routing along when suddenly you notice that the router bit has slipped! It's come loose in the collet and dropped down, creating an ugly divot in your workpiece. What could you have done to prevent this disaster? Nick shows you exactly what to do, and it's not what you might think. The solution to this pernicious problem is deceptively simple. | Workshop Companion
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If one of these Heart Boxes strikes you as something special that you would like to make for someone special, you can find the plans, step-by-step instructions, and full-size patterns for all four boxes at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/heart-box-project-plan | Workshop Companion
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We offer printable FULL-SIZE templates with step-by-step directions in PDF format. These plans also show how to added lights to you Christmas trees, should you want them! Find them here: https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/nesting-christmas-tree-plan Also check out our other Christmas-y plans: https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/band-saw-reindeer-and-sleigh-plan-combo To see all of our videos and SUBSCRIBE for more, see: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk480B1pofOjThMfkBjhDpQ .
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