Introduction The magnetic parts dish is one of the great small inventions of the workshop: a shallow stainless bowl with a magnet in its base that grabs screws, bolts, and driver bits and refuses to let them roll away. And yet, in the middle of a job, the dish itself ends up in the wrong … 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