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  • Trust your eye

    September 18, 2020

    Bill Pavlak shows you a few simple ways you can train your eye to gauge small distances and simple spatial relationships.

  • A very good cabinetmaker

    March 30, 2020

    Wiltshire worked in the cabinet shop owned by Anthony Hay, and like the building he worked in, the “very good cabinetmaker” was Hay's property.

  • Bill Pavlak’s Oddly Essential Tools

    August 20, 2019

    Bill Pavlak shares his thoughts on two of his favorite tools: a narrow scraper and ... um ... corset boning

  • The Bad and the Beautiful of Period Apprenticeships 

    April 24, 2019

    It is easy for us to conjure up visions of period apprenticeship that are heavily romanticized, but in reality, each shop was a working business where making the next shilling superseded the need for the apprentice’s next lesson

  • Full Circle–Dishing out a tea table top

    March 5, 2019

    Bill Pavlak relished the opportunity to revisit the process of dishing out a large surface by hand. Not only was this a special project in and of itself, it was also a chance to prove to himself that he had in fact learned a few things over the years.

  • A Survey of Period Drawer Bottoms

    September 19, 2018

    The rough surfaces and tool marks left behind on old drawer bottoms show their makers' dedication to efficiency and wise cost-cutting

  • Chippendale furniture for today’s designer

    July 19, 2018

    Celebrate this furniture designer's birthday by learning how his aesthetic choices nearly 300 years ago can improve your own designs today.

  • Bill Pavlak’s Sweet Toothing Plane

    May 23, 2018

    With its extremely high-pitched blade and serrated cutting edge, the toothing plane cares little about grain direction and figure

  • An interesting dovetailed saw till

    April 11, 2018

    Bill Pavlak looks to the past to find a unique method to house his favorite handsaws

  • How to Resaw by Hand

    February 26, 2018

    Sure, sawing by hand will usually take longer than feeding the board through a bandsaw, but unless you have a massive pile to cut, it’s not so bad

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