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| | *Editors note: This is James' first attempt at a long-form woodworking article. He is aware it is a departure from his usual format and tone. There is an idiom, often attributed to either Benjamin Franklin or the anonymous Shaker craftsman, that goes, "A place for everything, [and] everything in its place". I doubt Old Richard...
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| | Tutorial and Plans for Building Your Own Horse I designed and built my first bowl horse 20 years ago and I've loved using it ever since. Although I call it the "bowl horse" because I depend on it mainly for bowl carving, I also use it for all sorts of woodworking tasks. Put simply, it...
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| | For now, at least, I'm using hand planes to shape the spars. Pretty much every how-to video you'll see on spars shows the use of a power plane (perhaps after a band saw has roughed out the shape.) Well, I don't have a power plane (although one could be had at the tool library), but I also rather like the notion of shaping these pieces by hand. Hand planes are quiet.
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| Another year has passed. As is my heathen wont, I went to bed early last night, stone sober and well hydrated, and hit the shop early this morning. I like to begin each year on my own terms. And then ride out the downhill trajectory from there. In advance of my regular January vacation, I've...