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Japanese cutting gauge mafe'san version Here first the drawing I made to build it after. This post comes from my Japanese cutting gauge . Yet another tool for my Japanese toolbox. The cutting gauge is traditionally used to separate and split wood. I decided that on the day of New Year's Eve...

I just made 5 of these for our living room. Mahogany with mulberry paper lamp shades. The construction went very smoothly - pieces were finish planes to thickness using a homemade thickness planing jig. I designed the joinery to be very simple to execute, unlike the lamps of similar style that i...

Two cutting gauges; one plain hard maple, one +++curly maple. Fantastic curl. Fun to make, very pretty to look at. Check my blog for more details.

Posting this early because I will be out of town for a couple weeks. This is the gauge I made for JordanP, padauk and poplar. Iron is made from a hex key. If I were to do anything different, I would cut the round mortise then glue on the padauk with just a small hole for the iron but live and...

This is my first marking gauge I have made so far. It is made according the article written by Matt Kenney in issue number 211 of Fine Woodworking magazine. Made with scraps of red oak for the beam and the fence while the wedge is cocobolo. Dimensions are as follows, Beam: .5"T x 1"W x 7"L ...

If you're like me, you picked up a vintage marking gauge at some point in your woodworking life only to tear the wood fibers with the pin head. Maybe, like me, you did some research on refining the pin…then filed it to the shape of a half-moon profile. That worked ok but the tool still didn't...

My past several projects were all making tools I wanted by hand tools and this time was to make a Wari Kebiki, a Japanese cutting gauge. I wasn't confident enough to finish one that's usable quality and there are actually minor messes here and there but I finally made what I wanted! Also I have...

My skill up journey continues! I've spent dedicated time the past year on joinery, sharpening, dovetailing, boxmaking, and now, I'm super excited to begin the new phase, tool making! This weeks project was a treat to make, one of the simplest and most straight forward projects I've worked on...

I'm looking for a gift for my dad (dad's day and dad's birthday also), and as one of his hobbies is woodworking since many year, I know that a cutting gauge made by myself will please him. As I've read and learn many with this MaFe's blog (thx again!) I decide to do one for him and one for me...

One of the habits I've developed over the years is to stay focused on one project at a time. This is the only way that I don't end up with a shop full of half finished projects. With ADD like mine I can easily get distracted by new exciting project ideas. This past year I spent a lot of time...

Mike & Mads cutting gauge (post) A gift to a wonderful friend. Here on LJ I have meet many wonderful persons, and some I consider personal friends even I never had the joy of meeting them life. Each person for his or her qualities, and for a consistent dialog. One of these persons is our...

Simple sliding lid box (from the Mike & Mads cutting gauge blog) A gift to a wonderful friend. Yes the gauge I made Mike needed a custom made box. You can see the full blog here: http://lumberjocks.com/mafe/blog/21939 Nothing fancy, but with personality and all made of recycle wood. The box...

This was my first real woodworking project since wood shop in school, 20 years ago. I signed up to a bring-your-own-wood-and-work-on-your-own-projects evening class at one of the local community colleges in Göteborg on a whim with no real idea what I wanted to do there other than that I wanted...