Woodworking Hand Tools & Techniques

By Bob Rozaieski Fine Woodworking

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Traditional Woodworking for the Modern Maker

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Woodworking Hand Tools & Techniques episodes:

11.20.2020
HTT065 – My Favorite Woods to Work With
Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from November 2018. In this show, I talk a bit about my favorite woods to work with.
10.28.2020
HTT064 – Stains, Dyes, Glazes, Toners, and Preventing Blotching
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.
10.14.2020
HTT063 – Restoring an Old Oil Stone
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.
10.02.2020
HTT062 – Milk Paint Primer
Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from June 2018. In this show, I talk about milk paint.
09.24.2020
HTT061 – Workbenches: Build or Buy?
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!
08.24.2020
HTT060 – Photographing Your Work
Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from September 2017. In this show, I talk about photographing your work.
07.30.2020
HTT059 – Wooden Hand Planes vs. Metal Hand Planes
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.
07.21.2020
HTT058 – Inspiration from Unexpected Places
Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from July 2017. In this show, I talk about finding woodworking inspiration in unexpected places.
07.07.2020
HTT057 – Non-traditional Woodworking Projects
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.
07.01.2020
HTT056 – Taking Your Woodworking to the Next Level
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.
08.25.2019
HTT055 – Narrowing Focus
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.
08.07.2019
HTT054 – What Can You Learn from Bad Design?
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.
07.22.2019
HTT053 – Lathes & Turning for Furniture
On today’s show, I discuss how oversized to rough mill your stock, making curved moldings, and lathes and turning for furniture.
07.05.2019
HTT052 – Hand Saws for Curves
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.
06.19.2019
HTT051 – Projects: From Concept to Finish
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.
06.03.2019
HTT050 – “Non-traditional” Projects
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.
05.14.2019
HTT049 – Shellac Basics
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.
05.02.2019
HTT048 – Just Questions
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.
04.11.2019
HTT047 – Demystifying Varnish
On today’s show, I discuss saw handle hang angle, frame saw length, repairing a split board, and varnish.
03.30.2019
HTT046 – Work Holding
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.
03.13.2019
HTT045 – The Hand Tools I Wouldn’t Be Without
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...
02.27.2019
HTT044 – Hands Tools I Don’t Need
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.
02.23.2019
HTT043A – Under the Weather
I'm not feeling well this week so unfortunately I was not able to record a podcast. But fear not, I'll be back as soon as my cough clears up and I can get back behind the microphone!
02.06.2019
HTT043 – Basics of Design
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.
01.24.2019
HTT042 – Scrapers
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.
01.10.2019
HTT041 – Talking Dovetails
On today’s show, I discuss making a flag case, maintaining a wax finish, saw vises, non-yellowing finishes, and dovetailing details.
12.13.2018
HTT040 – All About Shooting Boards
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.
11.29.2018
HTT039 – Considerations for Setting Up A New Shop
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.
11.09.2018
HTT038 – Fancy Frame & Panel
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.
10.24.2018
HTT037 – Working with Reclaimed Wood
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.
10.10.2018
HTT036 – Starting a Woodworking Related Side Business
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.
09.26.2018
HTT035 – Sliding Dovetails
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.
09.12.2018
HTT034 – Proper Use of Reference Surfaces
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.
08.29.2018
HTT033 – Sharpening Systems
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.
08.16.2018
HTT032 – To Camber or Not To Camber
On today’s show, I discuss drawboring large tenons for workbenches, tools for spoon carving, plow planes, and camber on bench planes.
07.25.2018
HTT031 – Four Woodworking Myths
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.
07.14.2018
HTT030 – Scratch Stocks
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.
06.27.2018
HTT029 – Revisiting Old Projects
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.
06.20.2018
HTT028 – Just Questions
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.
06.01.2018
HTT027 – Experimental Archaeology
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.
05.18.2018
HTT026 – Moving Your Shop
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.
05.04.2018
HTT025 – Hammer Veneering Basics
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.
04.20.2018
HTT024 – Light It Up
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.
04.05.2018
HTT023 – What’s In A Name?
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.
03.22.2018
HTT022 – Improving you Hand Sawing
On today’s show, I discuss making curved cabinet doors, dealing with warped boards, combination planes, and tips for improving your hand sawing.
03.08.2018
HTT021 – Working In A Small Shop
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.
02.24.2018
HTT020 – Wooden Planes vs. Metal Planes
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.
02.08.2018
HTT019 – Choosing & Using Wood Screws
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.
01.12.2018
HTT017 – Getting Started with Molding Planes
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.
12.13.2017
HTT016 – Are Hand Tools Really That Slow?
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.

What's Woodworking Hand Tools & Techniques about?

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Woodworking Hand Tools & Techniques episodes:

HTT065 – My Favorite Woods to Work With

HTT064 – Stains, Dyes, Glazes, Toners, and Preventing Blotching

HTT063 – Restoring an Old Oil Stone

HTT062 – Milk Paint Primer

HTT061 – Workbenches: Build or Buy?

HTT060 – Photographing Your Work

HTT059 – Wooden Hand Planes vs. Metal Hand Planes

HTT058 – Inspiration from Unexpected Places

HTT057 – Non-traditional Woodworking Projects

HTT056 – Taking Your Woodworking to the Next Level

HTT055 – Narrowing Focus

HTT054 – What Can You Learn from Bad Design?

HTT053 – Lathes & Turning for Furniture

HTT052 – Hand Saws for Curves

HTT051 – Projects: From Concept to Finish

HTT050 – “Non-traditional” Projects

HTT049 – Shellac Basics

HTT048 – Just Questions

HTT047 – Demystifying Varnish

HTT046 – Work Holding

HTT045 – The Hand Tools I Wouldn’t Be Without

HTT044 – Hands Tools I Don’t Need

HTT043A – Under the Weather

HTT043 – Basics of Design

HTT042 – Scrapers

HTT041 – Talking Dovetails

HTT040 – All About Shooting Boards

HTT039 – Considerations for Setting Up A New Shop

HTT038 – Fancy Frame & Panel

HTT037 – Working with Reclaimed Wood

HTT036 – Starting a Woodworking Related Side Business

HTT035 – Sliding Dovetails

HTT034 – Proper Use of Reference Surfaces

HTT033 – Sharpening Systems

HTT032 – To Camber or Not To Camber

HTT031 – Four Woodworking Myths

HTT030 – Scratch Stocks

HTT029 – Revisiting Old Projects

HTT028 – Just Questions

HTT027 – Experimental Archaeology

HTT026 – Moving Your Shop

HTT025 – Hammer Veneering Basics

HTT024 – Light It Up

HTT023 – What’s In A Name?

HTT022 – Improving you Hand Sawing

HTT021 – Working In A Small Shop

HTT020 – Wooden Planes vs. Metal Planes

HTT019 – Choosing & Using Wood Screws

HTT017 – Getting Started with Molding Planes

HTT016 – Are Hand Tools Really That Slow?