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We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. Read part 1 here. While thinking about ways to manufacture the butter knives fast and efficiently, and also to maximize the use of wood and avoid waste as much as possible, I came up with a layout

We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. Caption: One of the film’s shooting locations, The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms in New Jersey. This was Stickley’s former homestead which now showcases his work and invests visitors to appreciate his legacy. Gustav Stickley is perhaps

We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. Want to see what I’m up to in the shop each day? I’m keeping myself honest on Instagram. You can follow me @andrewzoellner and #365daysofwoodworking. If it were up to me, I’d be able to divide myself

We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. Exposure to great furniture hones the eyes for quality and proportion. Woodworking is, all at once, frustrating, elating, challenging and straightforward stupid simple. It combines the elements of design, vision, accuracy, artistic intent and manual ability like

We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. Many of us have seen videos of Japanese hand planning competitions where the contenders are competing which individual (in some cases its a team)  is capable of producing the widest, longest and thinnest plane shaving. Watching these

We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. I just found out via a friend that an amazing show about Japanese traditional carpentry and its tools is about to close in three days. The show, When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan, was organized

We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. Truing and milling twisted or cupped boards whose width is broader than your jointer is always a challenge. And this becomes a true headache if you need to do this fast and efficiently.  If you own the

We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. Things were happening in 1981. Ronald Reagan had just started his first term in office, the Space Shuttle took its maiden voyage, and MTV appeared on the airways for the first time. It was also the year

We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. As it often happens with my ideas, the moment I start thinking about some type of innovation or another I gravitate to my sketchbook and try to evolve it on paper until I feel certain it has