Matthew's Blog at Workshop Heaven

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The first of the new American cherry handled Quangsheng planes have arrived. So far we have No.5’s and bronze spokeshaves in cherry wood, but it will shortly be introduced across the full range, replacing the bubinga handles completely.
The marking gauges are in walnut at the moment, whether this will eventually change to cherry too I’m not sure, but different timbers might be a nice way to tell them apart if you are using more than one on a project....

New video with David Charlesworth demonstrating his ruler trick added on the new workshopheaven blog:
http://www.workshopheaven.com/blog/Ruler_Trick/

I had a slightly spooky experience earlier this year when I found myself reading my own words almost verbatim from someone else’s hand. I don’t know who sent Paul Sellers one of the prototype router planes to review, but he raised all of the issues I...