What r/handtools is talking about this week

Needed a bench to go with my trestle table! My first time doing all stock prep by hand, cutting dovetails in 6/4 cherry, and doing wedged through tenons. A lot of mistakes were made but I'm pretty...

The crisscross was made with a few bits of metal purchased from McMaster-Carr. Metal parts: 1/2” x 1” mild steel bar 3/8” mild steel rod 1/16” x 1/2” mild steel bar 3/8” flat washer 10-24 thread...

Handle made with ash and finished with tung oil

Started out just practicing dovetails and ended up making a little box. Poplar with a walnut pull tab and a planted lid using Paul Sellers’ brass screw hinge method. Far from perfect, but I...

We were talking carpentry and he produced these beauties, all in good working order, from back in the day when he used to do a bit of woodworking. \- Record no4 smoothing plane \- Record no5 1/2...

It’s older than the person I got it from (probably made in the 1940s or 1950s), who owned a machine shop. He says it probably has to do with making circular saws (that’s what his business was),...

These are the Last bit of all the spare tools I have other than my essentials/daily users. I would love to see them go to someone just starting out and spark the love of the hobby like they did...

Had a nice visit with u/WigfootWallace this morning and he dropped off the good stuff. The star of the show though is definitely the absolutely stunning Chaplin 1/2 with red japanning, iron...

Update to my \previous post\ about saw handles for small hands. After reading the advice on my last post I decided to try making a smaller handle. I’m still very new to woodworking, so this was...