Woodworking Hand Tools & Techniques: Recent Episodes
Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking
Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from November 2018. In this show, I talk a bit about my favorite woods to work with.
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Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from August 2018. In this show, I answer a question from a listener about coloring wood and preventing blotching.
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Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from July 2018. In this show, I answer a question from a listener about restoring an old oil stone.
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Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from June 2018. In this show, I talk about milk paint.
The post HTT062 – Milk Paint Primer first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from October 2017. In this show, I talk about building vs. buying a workbench. Is building a workbench a rite of passage? Listen in for my thoughts!
The post HTT061 – Workbenches: Build or Buy? first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from September 2017. In this show, I talk about photographing your work.
The post HTT060 – Photographing Your Work first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from August 2017. In this show, I talk about the pros and cons of wooden and metal hand planes.
The post HTT059 – Wooden Hand Planes vs. Metal Hand Planes first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from July 2017. In this show, I talk about finding woodworking inspiration in unexpected places.
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Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from June 2017. In this show, I talk about some non-traditional woodworking projects to expand your horizons.
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Today, I offer up the Patron Extra podcast from April 2017. In this show, I talk about some ways that you can get out of your comfort zone and take your woodworking to the next level.
The post HTT056 – Taking Your Woodworking to the Next Level first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
This will be the last episode of the podcast. On today’s show, I discuss securing glass in a door frame, and troubleshooting a shooting board.
The post HTT055 – Narrowing Focus first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss setting up a cabinet scraper, sapwood vs. heartwood, attaching handles to thin case sides, slop in bench plane adjusters, and learning from poor furniture designs.
The post HTT054 – What Can You Learn from Bad Design? first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss how oversized to rough mill your stock, making curved moldings, and lathes and turning for furniture.
The post HTT053 – Lathes & Turning for Furniture first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss holding small stock for plowing grooves, long planes with narrow irons, frame saw vs. bandsaw for resawing, flattening wooden hand planes, and hand saws for sawing curves.
The post HTT052 – Hand Saws for Curves first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss making cabinet backs, my personal finish preferences, achieving full width shavings, natural finishing products, and taking a project from concept to final finish.
The post HTT051 – Projects: From Concept to Finish first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss dovetail orientation for casework, making a mortise across the grain of a board, small smoothing planes, and "non-traditional" projects.
The post HTT050 – “Non-traditional” Projects first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss dovetail pin to tail ratio, leaving space for seasonal expansion between case back boards, and some basics on using shellac.
The post HTT049 – Shellac Basics first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss order of operations for projects, workbench top board orientation, nails for a cabinet back, mixing hot hide glue without a glue pot, saw sharpening files, and flattening a workbench.
The post HTT048 – Just Questions first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss saw handle hang angle, frame saw length, repairing a split board, and varnish.
The post HTT047 – Demystifying Varnish first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss extending the working time of hot hide glue, using the "ruler trick" for plane irons, frame saws, and work holding.
The post HTT046 – Work Holding first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss hand saw handle size, inexpensive hand tool friendly woods, hiding a rabbet or groove in the bottom of a dovetailed box, replacing marking gauge pins, and hand tools that I wouldn't be without in my kit.
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On today’s show, I discuss keeping table tops flat, scratch stocks, hollow grinding, dealing with changing grain direction, and hand tool that I just don't need in my kit.
The post HTT044 – Hands Tools I Don’t Need first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss woodworking in a small corner of the house/apartment, old woodworking books, auger bit lead screw pitch, and the basics of designing your own projects.
The post HTT043 – Basics of Design first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss turning saw blades, hybrid filed saw teeth, managing glue in cold weather, auger bit cutter angles, and card scrapers.
The post HTT042 – Scrapers first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss making a flag case, maintaining a wax finish, saw vises, non-yellowing finishes, and dovetailing details.
The post HTT041 – Talking Dovetails first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss workbench vises, four squaring lumber with hand planes, insulating basement walls, preventing sagging bookshelves, and shooting boards and planes.
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On today’s show, I discuss lead screws on auger bits, single vs. double iron wooden planes, stair saws, and considerations when setting up a new workshop.
The post HTT039 – Considerations for Setting Up A New Shop first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss laminating 2Xs for a workbench top, mixing shellac, linseed oil odor, replacement blades for Stanley hand planes, music in the workshop, and making elaborate frame & panel doors.
The post HTT038 – Fancy Frame & Panel first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss shoulder planes, sanding after hand planing, web frames and dust boards, when to use mechanical reinforcement in your joinery, and working with reclaimed lumber.
The post HTT037 – Working with Reclaimed Wood first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss jointing really long boards, making curved moldings by hand, using thinner lumber to make a thick workbench top, rounding the corners of plane irons, and starting a woodworking related side business.
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On today’s show, I discuss paring yellow pine end grain, using cambered irons to square board edges, making moldings with a combination plane, more on reference surfaces, and sliding dovetails.
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On today’s show, I discuss a method for ensuring that large workbench leg mortises are square, controlling rust on items that can't be stored in a tool chest, saw wrests, and and proper use of reference surfaces.
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On today’s show, I discuss mouth opening on wooden planes, marking knives, leveling the bottoms of deep mortises, cambering a plane iron with a honing guide, and sharpening systems.
The post HTT033 – Sharpening Systems first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss drawboring large tenons for workbenches, tools for spoon carving, plow planes, and camber on bench planes.
The post HTT032 – To Camber or Not To Camber first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss workbenches, butterfly keys, setting up a dado plane, chopping mortises square to the edge of the stock, and four common woodworking myths.
The post HTT031 – Four Woodworking Myths first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss two-piece chip breakers, smoothing plane setup for controlling tearout, when to use haunched tenons, troubleshooting a smoothing plane, and scratch stocks.
The post HTT030 – Scratch Stocks first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss pins first dovetail layout, fishtail chisels, setting up a toothing plane, miter boxes, beginner projects, and lessons learned from revisiting old projects.
The post HTT029 – Revisiting Old Projects first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss planing the edges of thin stock, dado planes, replacing the blade and chipbreaker in a transitional plane, woods, glues and finishes for outdoor projects, and dealing with wood movement woes.
The post HTT028 – Just Questions first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss finishing both sides of a board, book matching veneer, cooper's jointer planes, workbench designs, pins vs. tails, hand tool jigs, boring straight with a brace and bit, and experimenting with historical practices in your shop.
The post HTT027 – Experimental Archaeology first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss hand planing vs. sanding before finishing, shoulder planes, working with long stock, side hung drawers, and moving your shop.
The post HTT026 – Moving Your Shop first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss multiple irons for a try/jointer plane, clarifications on the fore plane, tips for planing square board edges, building a stand alone shop, and hammer veneering.
The post HTT025 – Hammer Veneering Basics first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss wood choices for tool boxes, traditional joinery methods for joining the corners of casework, dovetailing the corners of a box with angled sides, and lighting in the workshop.
The post HTT024 – Light It Up first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss tools for working with green wood, spring joints, cambering plane irons without a grinder, and the traditional names and setups for the bench planes.
The post HTT023 – What’s In A Name? first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss making curved cabinet doors, dealing with warped boards, combination planes, and tips for improving your hand sawing.
The post HTT022 – Improving you Hand Sawing first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss keeping inset cabinet doors aligned, white pine for a workbench top, bevel up vs. bevel down smoothing planes, tongue and groove planes, and tips for working efficiently in a small shop.
The post HTT021 – Working In A Small Shop first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss using multiple tenons on wide table aprons, making cock beading with hand tools, workbench placement in the shop, edge jointing thick stock, and the pros and cons of the different types of hand planes.
The post HTT020 – Wooden Planes vs. Metal Planes first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss working plywood with hand tools, making moldings with combination planes, strategies for working really hard woods with hand tools, getting started on a budget, and using screws in woodworking.
The post HTT019 – Choosing & Using Wood Screws first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss edge jointing, workbench tool trays, cupping boards, building a saw on a budget, and nails for building furniture.
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On today’s show, I discuss sharpening angles, straightening a kinked hand saw, making large mortises for workbench legs, and getting started with molding planes.
The post HTT017 – Getting Started with Molding Planes first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss keeping green wood green, marking tapered octagonal legs, when to throw in the towel and re-cut a miscut tenon, and efficiency with hand tools.
The post HTT016 – Are Hand Tools Really That Slow? first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss removing paint splatters from saw handles, adding bolsters to shop made chisels, boiling your own linseed oil, high bevel angle blades in low bed angle planes, making serpentine front drawers, and sharpening cambered blades.
The post HTT015 – Just Questions first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss smoothing end grain to long grain transitions, more on in-cannel gouges, rust control in humid shops, working end grain with hand tools, and getting started with green woodworking.
The post HTT014 – Green Woodworking first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss cabinetmaker's screwdrivers, rub joints, fishtail vs. skew chisels, portable workbenches, and my favorite woodworking books.
The post HTT013 – What’s on the Woodworking Bookshelf? first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss jointer and planer size, fixing problem with old saw handles, methods for cutting down an old saw, restoring wooden bench planes, and making your own tools.
The post HTT012 – Making Your Own Hand Tools first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss tool acquisition as a new woodworker, cutting up old saws, repairing a twisted frame and panel door, accuracy vs. precision, and dust control.
The post HTT011 – Dust Control in the Hand Tool Shop first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss outdoor finishes, auger bit lead screws, re-sawing by hand, more on hand tool storage, and using hide glue.
The post HTT010 – Using Hide Glue first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss period finishes, the chisels that I find most useful in the shop, must have hand tool appliances, and hand tool storage options.
The post HTT009 – Hand Tool Storage first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss planing the end grain of a thick board at an angle, Auriou carving tools, making a frame for a glass panel, fixing miscut mortise and tenon joints, and the dos and don'ts of teaching woodworking classes.
The post HTT008 – Teaching Woodworking Classes first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss intermediate projects, workbench designs, cutting up wide lumber, sharpening saws for different woods, and getting started with carving.
The post HTT007 – Getting Started with Carving first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss set on hand saws, auger bits for softwoods and hardwoods, spring pole lathes, shopping for used tools, and staying motivated to work in the shop.
The post HTT006 – Motivation first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss scraping chisels, drawer slips, bits for boring into end grain, starting the cut with a hand saw, and working with kids in the shop.
The post HTT005 – Kids in the Workshop first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss getting back to video podcasting, how flat boards really need to be, resaw frame saws, proportioning project parts, and pre-year 2000 resources for learning traditional woodworking.
The post HTT004 – Learning from the Past first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss setting up a shooting board, good hand tool woods, when to stop and sharpen your tools, workbench top thickness, and what power tools make the most sense in a mostly hand tool shop.
The post HTT003 – Power Tools in the Hand Tool Shop first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
On today’s show, I discuss hiding grooves in dovetailed drawers, building a period style overlay drawer with a thumbnail molding, black stains on wood, modifying basic joinery for special situations, and starting out with hand tools on a limited budget.
The post HTT002 – Hand Tools on a Budget first appeared on Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking.
The podcast is back! On today’s show, I discuss how long it takes to complete tasks by hand, modern substitutes for period woodworking tools, the care and feeding of in-cannel gouges, and the nuances of sharpening hand saws.
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