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2025 Anarchist’s Gift Guide: Day 6
As we have gotten deep into making glues, finishes and paint, we’ve developed the need to measure small quantities of stuff. Enter the scale preferred by your friendly neighborhood drug dealer. These pocket-sized ...
Milk Paint & Tasty Pastry
We had some – a lot , actually – leftover quark after last week’s chair class. We bought enough so that everyone could make their own milk paint to paint their chairs … and only one person chose to make milk paint and paint their chair. Ah well ...
2025 Anarchist’s Gift Guide: Day 4
When I was self-employed, I thought about making setup blocks for Lie-Nielsen honing guides and selling them – a piece of plastic cutting board screwed to a block a wood to quickly be able to set the perfect projection ...
2025 Anarchist’s Gift Guide: Day 5
We own dozens of the 6″ Bessey F-style clamps for our shop. These miniature clamps get into places that our big clamps can’t. They are especially ideal for tricky repairs where you need a lot of strength applied to a small ...
New Book in the Queue: ‘Marquetry for Everyone’
I am pleased to announce that we’ve just signed a contract with Albert Kleine; he’s hard at work on a book that, in effect, democratizes marquetry, making it accessible to everyone. I don’t know when it will be available, but ...
Plane Pockets & Pencil Pockets
Our U.S.-made Block Plane Pocket and Pencil Pocket turn an unused corner of your tool chest or tool wall into handy storage for your block plane, pencils, 6” rules and other markers.
Both pockets hang on No. 6 screws (not included) through durable steel grommets. The pockets are sold individually or as a set (with a modest discount). Both are made from durable canvas (the same stuff we use in our waist apron and tool roll) at Sew Valley in Cincinnati.
The Block Plane Pocket
The block plane pocket is designed to hold a wide variety of planes, including the low-angle and standard-angle models. The pocket opening measures approximately 2-1/2” wide, 2” high and 4-1/2” deep.
The pocket protects the tool and keeps it ready for use. We have them on our tool wall and on the inside of our Dutch tool chest.
The Pencil Pocket
The pencil pocket keeps your marking and measuring tools front and center – so you don’t have to dig in a drawer or a tool till. The pencil pocket measures 7-1/4” wide x 6” tall overall. The five pockets are each 1-1/4” wide x 3-5/8” deep.
Pencil pockets can go anywhere you need to hold marking tools – including a tool chest lid or even by your table saw.