I've always heard that you can't walk through an antique store without tripping over a Stanley jack plane and I've mostly found that to be true until I started shopping for one. I was able to find a decent user for an okay price but I had to laugh because wooden planes and stanley transitionals...
Been attempting to build a contemporary style Windsor office chair. Started bending the pieces for the back today. I spent most of Sunday afternoon figuring out how to make my form.
Glued and screwed 2 pieces of particle board together for the form. Made a pattern for the curve of the chair...
Well today I got back in the woods out at Jims... We cut a monster RO that didn't come back this year and was standing dead. Just imagine a real forest red oak with a trunk WAY up there. To get the wedge out of the butt required some creative chainsawing, my 20" bar would not meet up in the...