Choosing & Using a Plane: Andy King talks through choosing and using a Plane. In order to make a living with woodworking, I find there has to be a compromise between power tools and elbow grease, and I'll be the first to admit that I couldn't survive without power tools. Sa…

Rhett Fulkerson of Nice Planes in Frankfort, Ky., showed me a cool trick for setting a chipbreaker quickly, precisely and perfectly parallel to the cutting

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This is a fantastic 3 shelf cabinet made of rustic barn wood, painted in a teal/robin egg blue color and will add a punch of color to your home. This is a custom made item and can be made in other colors as well. Please contact me if interested in an custom order. Please allow up to 2 weeks for me to make and ship. Measures: 32" high x 12" wide x 10" deep (approximate outside dimensions) ***Please contact me with your zip code for shipping cost***

Here’s a classic jig for cutting angled parts on your table saw. Build it from two 30-in. long x 2-1/2 in. wide boards connected on one end.

After a long slog we've finally updated our Split Top Roubo Plans to include our Benchcrafted Crisscross. Couple reasons this has taken so long. First, we made some other changes along the way that we thought would justify a delay on doing a major update. Second, while we were making the updates we lost all our files that make easy updates possible. Several hard drives, and even backup drives were corrupted. This happened right on the cusp of being finished with the big update. So we had to rebuild the plans from the ground up. And of course this meant going through all the dimension yet again to make sure we hadn't made any errors (there are a LOT of numbers to consider.) But that is all water under the bridge. The good news is the updated plans are at the printer and should be available to ship by the end of the week. The new plans show the Crisscross, the new Glide M/C as well as all the drawings for Crisscross-related joinery that we've been supplying at the end of the Crisscross and Glide installation instructions for the past couple years. Here's another nice bit. If you're installing a Classic Leg Vise instead of a Glide, you can build the bench exactly from the plans. Both vises fit the bench the same way. The only difference is that the Classic mounts to the chop with wood screws instead of machine screws. That's it. We'll also be updating the Crisscross and Glide installation instructions so the additional templates aren't included any longer. That would just be confusing if you're building the Split Top Roubo. The plans show everything you need to know. Special thanks to our tireless draftsman Louis Bois.

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