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New Videos Out Now on YouTube

Five of the recently filmed videos are out now, six more to follow in the next day or two.
1. Veritas Shooting Board Plane.
2. Piston fit tray part 1
3. Piston fit tray part 2
4. Soft closed lid
5. Using the Barron magnetic guide

Nice Beds from France

Matthieu from France has sent me lots of pictures of his work as those familiar with my Blog will have seen. This time he has turned his hand to beds, in his familiar style, using dovetail keys, cracks and flowing curves.

The first one in ash is my favourite and the one shown below is in oak.

Wood Sale Coming Up!

In the next couple of months we will be moving house, which means the workshop as well. Unfortunately the next garage (workshop) is smaller so I'm having a clear out. Each one of these large compactor sacks is filled with shavings from the 200 litre planer drum and the pile in the background with offcuts (firewood). I've spent the last three days planning up and trimming some of my waney edged, air dried boards. Some I'll be keeping and the rest I'll be selling off in the next 4 or five weeks.

Above is some of the smaller stuff to be sold and below some of the bigger boards. I'm only about a quarter of the way through my stock so plenty more work to go yet! All the wood for sale is bone dry and planed flat on both sides. I'll keep you posted with the sale date.

Paul Sellers Box

Nathan from Rochester in the US sent me these pictures of a very nice Paul Sellers box he made. It features a single large dovetail on each corner and was made for his Grandma from a piano lid salvaged by her from a fire 60 years ago.

He kept a part where a hinge was attached rather than cut it off, a nice reminder of it's former use.

It's true colour shone through in the sunlight shot below, a lovely deep red.

First Time Dvovetail from the US

 Dan sent me these photos of his first dovetails cut with a 1:7 magnetic guide. His words,

'Just got my 1:7 dovetail guide through Highland Woodworking and already love it. I cut my first joint about 10 minutes after opening the box, and it worked even better than I could have hoped. I have attached a photo as proof of my new-found "talent". I thank you for all your efforts, and wish you much continued success.'

Below is Dan's second attempt, pretty good!

Cute Little Dovetail Markers

I decided to make myself a couple of dovetail markers with a 1:6 angle, my favourite.
The woods are hard maple and Macassar ebony, which needed plenty of care to get a good fit.
My Bill Carter mitre plane made quick work of cleaning up without tear out.

They are quite small at 45 mm long x 35 mm wide, but plenty big enough for anything I'm likely to make. The maple is 5 mm thick and the ebony 8 mm.

The finish is shellac, which holds up the nice stripes in the ebony.