Sometimes the hard part of this work is taking this tool that you've just poured yourself into and putting it in a box and sending it on...

As of late I've been working on a batch of 3 Winter Smoothers. The opportunity to have this tool at an event where woodworkers could act...

When I returned from Handworks one of the things on my "Must Do" list was to perform a facelift on a very dated Brese Plane web pa...

As you can probably tell by the title of the this post I'm into Pizza. Eating Pizza, talking to my Pizza enthusiasts friends and, oh yea...

The work of Independent Tool Makers changes over time. I'm still making some of the same models of planes that I made when I first start...

When pictures of Bo Childs 16 Foot Roubo bench showed up on several blogs and videos some questioned making a bench of this size. Some even ...

Today as I was moving thru the shop at Wyatt Childs I began thinking about this group of bench builders and how diverse a group they are. In...