Next in the series of reviews of DVD’s from the SmartFlix Woodworking University, this time I review the DVD: Forgotten Hand Tools by Christopher Schwarz. This DVD is one of several done by Schwarz in conjunction with Lie Nielsen Toolworks. I have previously reviewed another in this series: Coarse Medium and Fine, here at the [...]
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Recently, I was reading Doug Stowe’s blog: Wisdom of the Hands. Doug had a post there about some testing of new tools he had been doing recently. In the post, Doug discussed that he did not want his tools to allow his work to “self-identify” with the viewer. His feeling is that if someone views [...]
Continuing with my reviews of DVD’s for the SmartFlix Hand Tools course, this time I review the David Charlesworth DVD’s: Precision Preparation of Chisels For Accurate Joinery and Chisel Techniques for Precision Joinery. Like the earlier reviewed DVD’s on Hand Plane preparation and use, these were shot on location at Lie-Nielsen Toolworks. Again like those [...]
Continuing the series of reviews for the SmartFlix Hand Tools course, this time I review the Chris Schwarz DVD Coarse, Medium and Fine. Like the earlier reviewed DVD on Hand Scraper preparation and use, this one was shot on location at Lie-Nielsen Toolworks in 2005. The DVD covers the subjects of surfacing rough lumber with hand [...]
This review is another in a series on Hand Tools that I am doing with SmartFlix to help them develop a curriculum of instructional DVD’s for hand tool work in the woodshop. Similar to the Charlesworth DVD’s that I reviewed previously, this DVD: Hand Scrapers, Understanding, Preparing and Using the Ultimate Finishing Tool was shot [...]
