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I keep recommending this video to customers, so now I'm sharing it with everyone.

In this video David Charlesworth demonstrates his famous ruler trick for sharpening plane irons.

Update on the new router plane from Quangsheng

In this two part video review, woodworking blogger Mitch Peacock of Made in Wood takes the Quangsheng 043 plough plane through its paces.

Based on the classic Record 043, the new version from Quangsheng incorporates several improvements, including a stainless steel body and a special kerfing saw attachment.

In the 1940's Japanese knifemakers combined the virtues of European and Japanese knives to produce the santoku - a design classic that has now become ubiquitous in kitchens throughout the world.

Gyokucho, the company that invented and perfected the replaceable blade Japanese saw in the 1970's, are fishing for a little bit of that same east-meets-west magic with their new range of Fugaku folding saws, and I believe they have hit upon something rather special...

Every once in a while life throws up a wonderful opportunity that's just too good to miss. So when Quangsheng told me they had one available development slot left for 2014/15 and invited me to design a product to fill it, I absolutely leapt at the chance.

In this beautifully produced new video you can see for yourself how Clifton Handplanes and Pax Saws are made, one at a time, with care and skill, in Sheffield.

When you first arrive at Guédelon, you don't see the castle straight away, but even the most mildly attuned will certainly feel it, the sheer creative energy of the place reverberates through the surrounding woodland like a drum!