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The various tools I use and reviews.

Home Made Cabinet Scraper

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Way back in October of 2006 I wrote about the heavy Santa Ana winds felling one of the Californian Pepper trees at my place of work and how I would take a section of that timber and air dry it to use at a later date for a small project. Since then it has been [...]

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Woodcraft 80 Year Anniversary

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Woodcraft is celebrating its 80th year in helping people to master wood, that is, supplying the tools, the knowledge and the know how. With this momentous occasion they are offering limited editions of quality tools every month during the 80th year.
During this period March 2nd through March 31st 2008 they have a nice Flexcut [...]

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Carving Tools for Christmas

Monday, December 18, 2006

Another year is coming to an end and as you all well know this is the time of year to look for bargains. These deals are not just exclusively for clothes or home goods but it generally applies to everything that is sold.
In one of my recent emails I find that Woodcraft are selling [...]

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Flexcut Blades™ Ordering Online

Thursday, December 7, 2006

The lead up to this years Thanksgiving has been more than busy, my primary job has been eating up every available hour leaving no time to test out my new purchase of Flexcut™ carving tools. The one thing that I did get around to doing was to purchase via the website a selection of other [...]

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Flexcut™ Carving Tools On The Go

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Have you ever considered using carving tools that are interchangeable with a single handle? To tell you the truth, I haven’t, I’ve always considered them to be an inferior product compared to the more traditional carving tools that you see. I’m use to using a firmly fixed blade within a wooden handle such as you [...]

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Ashley Iles, One of Sheffields Finest

Friday, September 15, 2006

The company of Ashley Iles has been in existence since 1949 when Ashley decided that he wanted to make and offer superior tools to people of his previous trade, pattermaking. These carving tools and wood turning tools have become one of the premium grade of hand held tools today. Each one is still fashioned in [...]

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