Helen Welch

Furnituremaking know it all, who doesn't know when to keep quiet.

[Helen Welch @welchassembly]

I came across this fun little depth gauge last week. I think it's gunmetal but what do I know? In fact, I know very little about it, F Falding or what it's exact purpose was. The steel rule reads up to ¾"... https://t.co/MnmqFC45cr

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Another one of my dear friends has been at the bench this week. Our 5 day box making class is a stiff test for most of the participants and even more testing if you haven't had a lot of joinery practice.... https://t.co/zE89xtOPb4

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#bookoftheweek is Robert Wearing's 'The Essential Woodworker'. If I were to compile a best 10 list of books for the aspiring woodworker this would be top of the pile. I like that the chapters are arranged under... https://t.co/fmjfbFaw47

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Tom's cabinet update: So, the glue has set and any moisture from the glue allowed to migrate out of the patch. Now it's been planned flush we've concluded it looks like a bit of sapwood. I'll take that as a... https://t.co/eXJZu9Q1Eg

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This week's #bookoftheweek is the oft overlooked classic 'Solid-Wood Cabinet Construction by Franz Klarg'. It is a fantastic collection of sophisticated, beautifully detailed and proportioned cabinets, which... https://t.co/zOdL8NFBOk

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I've posted pictures of Tom's little oak AV unit a few times over the past 6 months. You may recall the miserable moment when he routed through the top of his cabinet by mistake. There has been much deliberation... https://t.co/pIeqMm2qBg

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I was just flicking through my library looking for something that I've now forgotten, when I became distracted by this stunning engraving in The Modern Carpenter and Joiner and Cabinet Maker - Part 1, from 1903.... https://t.co/jUbGIl645M

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A student brought in a mystery timber, thought to be mahogany. I didn't think it was, so I was tasked with finding out what it actually was. Identifying generic looking brown timbers is a bit like identifying... https://t.co/W28bRW8azh

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Stopped chamfers are tricky details to get right with chisels alone. If the grain isn't behaving itself you can find yourself with a nasty patch of tear-out in an instant. This is where a good rasp comes in. You... https://t.co/x4rgr83FbT

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I do like a finely made tool. I'm not sure of the date of this bow drill, so I'm just going to say 1800s. It's got all the things that make me swoon: Brazilian rosewood ✅ knurled brass✅ lovely bit of patination... https://t.co/YaipUKUCdy

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I found a couple of mystery timbers in my firewood pile. I was fairly certain that they were both oak, due to the large ray fleck on the quarter sawn surfaces; but I could see they weren't the same species, so... https://t.co/4H3LWnvzfl

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Thank you Heartwood Creative Woodworking . We love the T shirts. @armstrong9461 there's one here wth your name on it. @ The London School of Furniture Making — at The London School of Furniture Making https://t.co/NqqXpTTqiP

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Sometimes insomnia pays off and I find myself buying an interesting tool at 4 o'clock in the morning. This rather lovely old mortice gauge turned up in the post today and it's far more delightful than my bleary... https://t.co/4mtX4AjP0l

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Today is the last day of our 3-day Basic Skills Joinery class. After enjoying two days getting familiar with measuring, marking and cutting, the students will spend the rest of the course making a trivet.

If... https://t.co/qLv9uyufMx

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Our 3-day planing class ended today. We broke out the jacks, smoothers, scrubs, blocks, bevel-ups, bevel-downs, Baileys, Bedrocks, scrapers, ticketers etc. and a rollicking good time was had by all.

I tried... https://t.co/XYCisRWsqm

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Some months ago I posted a picture of Tom's routing SNAFU. We are yet to come up with a satisfactory finesse to hide the damage, so for now at least, we're ignoring it and getting on with making the underframe.... https://t.co/ScjhxozfCB

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I don't make for clients anymore. I don't like it and I've made my peace with that. So when my dear friend asked me if I would make two benches for her I flatly refused. Instead, I invited her to come to school... https://t.co/TxwpTYgvgJ

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We're testing the new hardwood Japanese saw blade from Z Saws. I'd been sawing ebony a general purpose blade and that wasn't enjoying it at all. So much so, that it lost a tooth in the process. Although that... https://t.co/G0lIUkAHuW

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Board too deep to machine into two? Not a problem with a well tuned ripsaw.

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You never really know if the ideas you sketched out are going to translate well into a solid three dimensional object. You can pretty much draw whatever comes into your head but making it is a different matter.... https://t.co/YQzPmZDzc3