Daddy – your plane looks pretty, but if you want to make it really good you need to paint a unicorn on it. I can help if you don’t know how. — zoe eden nelson (age 5) Two weeks ago, I finished the last plane I’ll make in Daed Toolworks Lab v1.0; I’ve shut down […]
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All you need to know about Woodworking in America
I can summarize the carnival smorgasbord of woodworking fury known as Woodworking in America with four words: Raney Lost his Voice. Those of you who know him will understand. Because of his condition, he asked me to post this entry. In a rather hysterical bit of mimery, he’s also asked I convey that he’s sorry […]
It’s the little stuff…
Last week I wrapped up the revised panel plane prototype just in time to bring it with me to the Northeast Woodworking Association’s 20th Annual Fine Woodworking Show in Saratoga Springs. The show itself, by the way, was a real treat — great presenters (including Peter Follansbee and Chris Schwarz) and a wealth of great […]
Got game?
The latest issue of Popular Woodworking has been arriving in mailboxes for the past week or so, and mine arrived on saturday. This issue is one of the strongest in recent memory, but the most enjoyable part of it for me was my friend Jameel Abraham’s first published article, which details a comprehensive and remarkably […]
Evolution #9
History is a nightmare from which I’m trying to awake… But at least it’s better than geometry! – Lil’ Stevie Daedalus I’ve been doing a lot of work on design lately, and a lot of thinking about the design process as well. So I’d like to get back to the planemaking part of this blog […]
Got me some website
Wake up sissyboy! A planemakers got to be READY! All day, all hellfire night. Planemaker quits peining at midnight, and wakes up with a file in his teeth at 2 AM! Planemaker hardens blades barehanded, and quenches ’em with his steely gaze! Then he laps a batch of jointers on the gravel at the front […]
WIA 2010: Here Comes My Chinese Rug!
This week, Daed Toolworks shifts from my personal spare-time devouring hobby into a spare-time devouring commercial enterprise.
Rumors of my demise…
OK, let’s get this out of the way right off the bat: I have been neither the victim of kidnapping by Somali pirates, nor have I been in cryogenic suspension. Other things I have not been doing during the past six months include: –striking intriguing poses -playing ‘16.4 billion bottles of beer on the wall’ […]