Introduction Sorting trays solve a different problem from storage boxes. Storage is where screws live for months. A sorting tray is where hardware works: the screws that just came out of a hinge, the mixed handful from a new packet, the washers and nuts that must go back in the right order. Without a tray, … Read more
Introduction Ask a workshop where its 120-grit discs live and you will be shown a drawer, a torn box, a zip bag, and a stack of discs of unknown grit stuck fuzz-to-abrasive in a corner — each one slowly ruining the next. Hook-and-loop sanding discs are consumables, but they are not cheap, and they die … Read more
Introduction A chisel’s edge is its whole value, and it is astonishingly easy to ruin. One roll across a bench into a screwdriver, one afternoon rattling loose in a toolbox with its brothers, and an edge you honed to shaving sharpness has a nick that takes twenty minutes of stone work to remove. The loose … Read more