Woodworking Hand Tools & Techniques
65 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsTraditional Woodworking for the Modern Maker
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HTT065 – My Favorite Woods to Work With
November 20, 2020 00:45 - 25 minutes - 11.6 MBToday, we have the Patron Extra podcast from November 2018. In this show, I talk a bit about my favorite woods to work with.
HTT064 – Stains, Dyes, Glazes, Toners, and Preventing Blotching
October 28, 2020 19:37 - 20 minutes - 9.21 MBToday, we have the Patron Extra podcast from August 2018. In this show, I answer a question from a listener about coloring wood and preventing blotching.
HTT063 – Restoring an Old Oil Stone
October 14, 2020 16:36 - 17 minutes - 8.07 MBToday, we have the Patron Extra podcast from July 2018. In this show, I answer a question from a listener about restoring an old oil stone.
HTT062 – Milk Paint Primer
October 02, 2020 15:53 - 20 minutes - 9.19 MBToday, we have the Patron Extra podcast from June 2018. In this show, I talk about milk paint.
HTT061 – Workbenches: Build or Buy?
September 24, 2020 20:43 - 9 minutes - 4.37 MBToday, we have the Patron Extra podcast from October 2017. In this show, I talk about building vs. buying a workbench. Is building a workbench a rite of passage? Listen in for my thoughts!
HTT060 – Photographing Your Work
August 24, 2020 18:04 - 15 minutes - 6.99 MBToday, we have the Patron Extra podcast from September 2017. In this show, I talk about photographing your work.
HTT059 – Wooden Hand Planes vs. Metal Hand Planes
July 30, 2020 15:56 - 16 minutes - 7.39 MBToday, we have the Patron Extra podcast from August 2017. In this show, I talk about the pros and cons of wooden and metal hand planes.
HTT058 – Inspiration from Unexpected Places
July 21, 2020 20:23 - 11 minutes - 5.19 MBToday, we have the Patron Extra podcast from July 2017. In this show, I talk about finding woodworking inspiration in unexpected places.
HTT057 – Non-traditional Woodworking Projects
July 07, 2020 22:48 - 12 minutes - 5.78 MBToday, we have the Patron Extra podcast from June 2017. In this show, I talk about some non-traditional woodworking projects to expand your horizons.
HTT056 – Taking Your Woodworking to the Next Level
July 01, 2020 15:17 - 13 minutes - 6.15 MBToday, I offer up the Patron Extra podcast from April 2017. In this show, I talk about some ways that you can get out of your comfort zone and take your woodworking to the next level.
HTT055 – Narrowing Focus
August 25, 2019 13:39 - 25.9 MBThis will be the last episode of the podcast. On today’s show, I discuss securing glass in a door frame, and troubleshooting a shooting board.
HTT054 – What Can You Learn from Bad Design?
August 07, 2019 22:10 - 67.4 MBOn today’s show, I discuss setting up a cabinet scraper, sapwood vs. heartwood, attaching handles to thin case sides, slop in bench plane adjusters, and learning from poor furniture designs.
HTT053 – Lathes & Turning for Furniture
July 22, 2019 03:25 - 60.4 MBOn today’s show, I discuss how oversized to rough mill your stock, making curved moldings, and lathes and turning for furniture.
HTT052 – Hand Saws for Curves
July 05, 2019 14:38 - 69.2 MBOn today’s show, I discuss holding small stock for plowing grooves, long planes with narrow irons, frame saw vs. bandsaw for resawing, flattening wooden hand planes, and hand saws for sawing curves.
HTT051 – Projects: From Concept to Finish
June 19, 2019 12:53 - 91 MBOn today’s show, I discuss making cabinet backs, my personal finish preferences, achieving full width shavings, natural finishing products, and taking a project from concept to final finish.
HTT050 – “Non-traditional” Projects
June 03, 2019 20:16 - 53.7 MBOn today’s show, I discuss dovetail orientation for casework, making a mortise across the grain of a board, small smoothing planes, and "non-traditional" projects.
HTT049 – Shellac Basics
May 14, 2019 17:27 - 71.8 MBOn today’s show, I discuss dovetail pin to tail ratio, leaving space for seasonal expansion between case back boards, and some basics on using shellac.
HTT048 – Just Questions
May 02, 2019 03:36 - 46.1 MBOn today’s show, I discuss order of operations for projects, workbench top board orientation, nails for a cabinet back, mixing hot hide glue without a glue pot, saw sharpening files, and flattening a workbench.
HTT047 – Demystifying Varnish
April 11, 2019 01:18 - 66 MBOn today’s show, I discuss saw handle hang angle, frame saw length, repairing a split board, and varnish.
HTT046 – Work Holding
March 30, 2019 03:39 - 68.3 MBOn today’s show, I discuss extending the working time of hot hide glue, using the "ruler trick" for plane irons, frame saws, and work holding.
HTT045 – The Hand Tools I Wouldn’t Be Without
March 13, 2019 17:15 - 68 MBOn today’s show, I discuss hand saw handle size, inexpensive hand tool friendly woods, hiding a rabbet or groove in the bottom of a dovetailed box, replacing marking gauge pins, and hand tools that I wouldn't be without in my kit.
HTT044 – Hands Tools I Don’t Need
February 27, 2019 14:07 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MBOn today’s show, I discuss keeping table tops flat, scratch stocks, hollow grinding, dealing with changing grain direction, and hand tool that I just don't need in my kit.
HTT043 – Basics of Design
February 06, 2019 14:04 - 41 minutes - 19 MBOn today’s show, I discuss woodworking in a small corner of the house/apartment, old woodworking books, auger bit lead screw pitch, and the basics of designing your own projects.
HTT042 – Scrapers
January 24, 2019 15:14 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MBOn today’s show, I discuss turning saw blades, hybrid filed saw teeth, managing glue in cold weather, auger bit cutter angles, and card scrapers.
HTT041 – Talking Dovetails
January 10, 2019 04:20 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBOn today’s show, I discuss making a flag case, maintaining a wax finish, saw vises, non-yellowing finishes, and dovetailing details.
HTT040 – All About Shooting Boards
December 13, 2018 19:57 - 1 hour - 32 MBOn today’s show, I discuss workbench vises, four squaring lumber with hand planes, insulating basement walls, preventing sagging bookshelves, and shooting boards and planes.
HTT039 – Considerations for Setting Up A New Shop
November 29, 2018 03:12 - 47 minutes - 21.6 MBOn today’s show, I discuss lead screws on auger bits, single vs. double iron wooden planes, stair saws, and considerations when setting up a new workshop.
HTT038 – Fancy Frame & Panel
November 09, 2018 22:54 - 43 minutes - 19.9 MBOn today’s show, I discuss laminating 2Xs for a workbench top, mixing shellac, linseed oil odor, replacement blades for Stanley hand planes, music in the workshop, and making elaborate frame & panel doors.
HTT037 – Working with Reclaimed Wood
October 24, 2018 21:28 - 48 minutes - 22 MBOn today’s show, I discuss shoulder planes, sanding after hand planing, web frames and dust boards, when to use mechanical reinforcement in your joinery, and working with reclaimed lumber.
HTT036 – Starting a Woodworking Related Side Business
October 10, 2018 12:49 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBOn today’s show, I discuss jointing really long boards, making curved moldings by hand, using thinner lumber to make a thick workbench top, rounding the corners of plane irons, and starting a woodworking related side business.
HTT035 – Sliding Dovetails
September 26, 2018 22:26 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MBOn today’s show, I discuss paring yellow pine end grain, using cambered irons to square board edges, making moldings with a combination plane, more on reference surfaces, and sliding dovetails.
HTT034 – Proper Use of Reference Surfaces
September 12, 2018 15:37 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MBOn today’s show, I discuss a method for ensuring that large workbench leg mortises are square, controlling rust on items that can't be stored in a tool chest, saw wrests, and and proper use of reference surfaces.
HTT033 – Sharpening Systems
August 29, 2018 14:57 - 1 hour - 28 MBOn today’s show, I discuss mouth opening on wooden planes, marking knives, leveling the bottoms of deep mortises, cambering a plane iron with a honing guide, and sharpening systems.
HTT032 – To Camber or Not To Camber
August 16, 2018 01:58 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBOn today’s show, I discuss drawboring large tenons for workbenches, tools for spoon carving, plow planes, and camber on bench planes.
HTT031 – Four Woodworking Myths
July 25, 2018 23:15 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MBOn today’s show, I discuss workbenches, butterfly keys, setting up a dado plane, chopping mortises square to the edge of the stock, and four common woodworking myths.
HTT030 – Scratch Stocks
July 14, 2018 03:30 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MBOn today’s show, I discuss two-piece chip breakers, smoothing plane setup for controlling tearout, when to use haunched tenons, troubleshooting a smoothing plane, and scratch stocks.
HTT029 – Revisiting Old Projects
June 27, 2018 23:30 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MBOn today’s show, I discuss pins first dovetail layout, fishtail chisels, setting up a toothing plane, miter boxes, beginner projects, and lessons learned from revisiting old projects.
HTT028 – Just Questions
June 20, 2018 16:50 - 47 minutes - 21.6 MBOn today’s show, I discuss planing the edges of thin stock, dado planes, replacing the blade and chipbreaker in a transitional plane, woods, glues and finishes for outdoor projects, and dealing with wood movement woes.
HTT027 – Experimental Archaeology
June 01, 2018 14:37 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBOn today’s show, I discuss finishing both sides of a board, book matching veneer, cooper's jointer planes, workbench designs, pins vs. tails, hand tool jigs, boring straight with a brace and bit, and experimenting with historical practices in your shop.
HTT026 – Moving Your Shop
May 18, 2018 17:33 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MBOn today’s show, I discuss hand planing vs. sanding before finishing, shoulder planes, working with long stock, side hung drawers, and moving your shop.
HTT025 – Hammer Veneering Basics
May 04, 2018 15:11 - 1 hour - 33.6 MBOn today’s show, I discuss multiple irons for a try/jointer plane, clarifications on the fore plane, tips for planing square board edges, building a stand alone shop, and hammer veneering.
HTT024 – Light It Up
April 20, 2018 15:55 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MBOn today’s show, I discuss wood choices for tool boxes, traditional joinery methods for joining the corners of casework, dovetailing the corners of a box with angled sides, and lighting in the workshop.
HTT023 – What’s In A Name?
April 05, 2018 15:26 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MBOn today’s show, I discuss tools for working with green wood, spring joints, cambering plane irons without a grinder, and the traditional names and setups for the bench planes.
HTT022 – Improving you Hand Sawing
March 22, 2018 17:42 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBOn today’s show, I discuss making curved cabinet doors, dealing with warped boards, combination planes, and tips for improving your hand sawing.
HTT021 – Working In A Small Shop
March 08, 2018 19:05 - 45 minutes - 21 MBOn today’s show, I discuss keeping inset cabinet doors aligned, white pine for a workbench top, bevel up vs. bevel down smoothing planes, tongue and groove planes, and tips for working efficiently in a small shop.
HTT020 – Wooden Planes vs. Metal Planes
February 24, 2018 02:46 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBOn today’s show, I discuss using multiple tenons on wide table aprons, making cock beading with hand tools, workbench placement in the shop, edge jointing thick stock, and the pros and cons of the different types of hand planes.
HTT019 – Choosing & Using Wood Screws
February 08, 2018 00:51 - 52 minutes - 23.8 MBOn today’s show, I discuss working plywood with hand tools, making moldings with combination planes, strategies for working really hard woods with hand tools, getting started on a budget, and using screws in woodworking.
HTT018 – Carpenters, Joiners, and Nailed Furniture
January 25, 2018 01:54 - 55 minutes - 25.2 MBOn today’s show, I discuss edge jointing, workbench tool trays, cupping boards, building a saw on a budget, and nails for building furniture.
HTT017 – Getting Started with Molding Planes
January 12, 2018 18:13 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MBOn today’s show, I discuss sharpening angles, straightening a kinked hand saw, making large mortises for workbench legs, and getting started with molding planes.
HTT016 – Are Hand Tools Really That Slow?
December 13, 2017 19:21 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBOn today’s show, I discuss keeping green wood green, marking tapered octagonal legs, when to throw in the towel and re-cut a miscut tenon, and efficiency with hand tools.