Woodworking

Planes

These are my notes and thoughts as I learn about planes.

Tuning Up a Metal Bevel-Down Plane
Upgrade your Bevel-Down plane or buy a new one.
Sharpening Bevel-Down Plane Blades
What shape to make the bevel and the equipment used to do it.
Other Blade and Cutting Geometries in Bevel-Down Planes
Use other bevel shapes, skew the plane, or add a back bevel to improve performance.
Clearance Angle in Bevel-Down Planes
Making and Modifying Bevel-Down Planes
The big plane experiment
My First Attempt at a Plane Blade Honing Guide for Scary Sharp

Projects

Construction pictures of my Frank Klausz type workbench

Woodworking Links

Metalworking

In 2000 I wanted to convert my bench top milling machine to CNC. I changed my mind. I even bought stepper motors and ball screws but I sold them again on ebay and got my money back. But I did document the information I gathered and have put it back on the web incase it might help someone.

CNC Retro Fit

Engineering Philosophy

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