The Perfect Edge
"... makes his new book 'The Perfect Edge' one that should not only be read cover to cover (multiple times), but owned and consulted regularly by any woodworker who is serious about his craft, and/or works with edged tools and/or likes their tools working at an optimum level... The book is beautifully presented, and absolutely jam-packed with well presented information... This is the bible on sharpening... If you but remember a fraction of this book, and put it into practice, your tools will be deadly sharp, and a pleasure to use." -- Stuart Lees
Monthly Archives: November 2012
The Perfect Edge is… Essential!
This just in from Megan Fitzpatrick at the Popular Woodworking Editor’s Blog: “Furniture & Cabinetmaking magazine has in its winter 2012 issue honored Ron Hock’s “The Perfect Edge” (Popular Woodworking) and Christopher Schwarz’s “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” (Lost Art Press), as … Continue reading
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NYC Trip Report, Part 3
The day after our Makeville Studio spokeshave workshop Linda, Joel and I visited the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan. The Met is so large, the collection so vast that it defies description. Joel grew up nearby so this was one of … Continue reading
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NYC Trip Report, Part 2
I was going to post these in more or less chronological order but decided this needed to be said sooner. As you must know by now Super Storm Sandy devastated a huge portion of our continent last week. Many thousands … Continue reading
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NYC Trip Report, Part 1
As promised in a previous post, Linda and I flew to New York City two weeks ago for a spokeshave-making workshop and plane tuning clinic at Makeville Studio in Brooklyn. I apologize for taking so long to tell you about … Continue reading
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