What’s with the clamp-fest, you may ask. I wanted to glue together two pieces of 1” plywood and needed the result to be as flat as possible; the flattest surface I have is my workbench so I used some battens to clamp the ply to my bench; many thanks to Linda for helping me juggle the task. With a small stop at one end, this jig is a planing sled onto which you hot-glue a piece of wood so you can use a thickness planer to flatten the first face of your piece when you do not have a jointer (or when the jointer is not wide enough). I have been thinking of going to a new maker space here in Montreal to rough dimension the pieces for a new project, giving them a few days to adjust, and do the final dimensioning with my usual hand-planes. As you already guessed by now, they do not have a jointer… #Woodworking #WorkbenchAppliance #Plywood
Not a glamorous piece, but nonetheless a very useful one; it’s been sitting on my todo list for a long time and finally I took the time to make one out of a leftover piece of White Oak; it’s a simple pairing block for 45° and 90° angles that I can use to guide my chisels when I need good accuracy. At 1-3/4” wide, it pushed my shooting board to its limit. #WorkbenchAppliance #HandToolsOnly #WhiteOak #Oak #Woodworking
I will be using sliding dovetails and angled rabbets in some of my upcoming projects, so I decided to make myself a couple of guides: one to saw the kerfs for the female part and one to pare the male with a chisel. I then tried cutting my first sliding dovetail joint and I was really very happy; you get perfect angles and you only have to pay attention to size. #WorkbenchAppliance #SlidingDovetail #HandToolsOnly #WhitePine #Poplar #Woodworking
