I told the story of warming up to DIY in spite of not being a DIY guy here. And then I tried to build some speaker cabinets here.
The results of those experiments weren't perfect, but they were satisfying. So I read some; I watched videos online. Somewhere along the way, my dad gave me a bunch of his Lost Art and Taunton Press books.
Anyway, it's hard to plane wood without something to hold it. So I built this mini-bench. It has stops and a vise. That's my great-grandfather's No. 3 on top of a practice piece of maple. Clearly a posed photo, as the bench isn't clamped to the table.
The results of those experiments weren't perfect, but they were satisfying. So I read some; I watched videos online. Somewhere along the way, my dad gave me a bunch of his Lost Art and Taunton Press books.
Anyway, it's hard to plane wood without something to hold it. So I built this mini-bench. It has stops and a vise. That's my great-grandfather's No. 3 on top of a practice piece of maple. Clearly a posed photo, as the bench isn't clamped to the table.