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Carving details on a Renaissance Lute Bridge
Tools
Scraping Together a Title For This Post
In times past people tamed tricky grain with scraper planes. Unlike card srcapers, scraper planes have a thicker blade fixed in one position. They still utilize a burr which takes lacy thin cuts. You can find vintage scraper planes by Record, Stanley, Bailey and others. I made mine in the manner of the Great James…
Thinking Inside the Box
So a few years ago I began the process of making storage for my tools. My first step was to build a 18th century style tool chest (courtesy of Chris Schwarz). It is the green colored chest my new box is sitting on in the photo and I highly recommend working from such a chest. …
