Cedar Plane Workshttps://cedarplaneworks.com/A hand-tool woodworking diary from the Waveney valley: sharpening, dovetails cut in a cold shop, and the oak boards that moved after I glued them up.enOil, wax and a damp winter: six months spent chasing glosshttps://cedarplaneworks.com/journal/oil-wax-and-a-damp-winter/https://cedarplaneworks.com/journal/oil-wax-and-a-damp-winter/A winter of cloudy varnish in a cold shed, then thinned oil, warmed wax, and choosing a finish by what the piece will actually have to survive.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTWorkholding: one vice, four dog holes and two holdfastshttps://cedarplaneworks.com/journal/one-vice-four-dog-holes-two-holdfasts/https://cedarplaneworks.com/journal/one-vice-four-dog-holes-two-holdfasts/Why I stripped the shelves and racks off my bench, how the top gets flattened each spring, and what a pair of holdfasts holds better than a vice.Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMTThe oak boards that moved, and what I allow for nowhttps://cedarplaneworks.com/journal/the-oak-boards-that-moved/https://cedarplaneworks.com/journal/the-oak-boards-that-moved/Air-dried oak at sixteen per cent, a shop at eighty per cent humidity and a tabletop that cupped in February: what now goes on the drawing before I cut.Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMTDovetails by hand in a cold shop: marking, sawing, paringhttps://cedarplaneworks.com/journal/dovetails-by-hand-in-a-cold-shop/https://cedarplaneworks.com/journal/dovetails-by-hand-in-a-cold-shop/How one gauge setting, a knifed baseline and a guide block turned my third set of hand-cut drawer dovetails into the first worth leaving bare.Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMTA sharpening routine that stuck, after three that did nothttps://cedarplaneworks.com/journal/a-sharpening-routine-that-stuck/https://cedarplaneworks.com/journal/a-sharpening-routine-that-stuck/Three sharpening methods I abandoned, the one that stuck, and why flattening the back of a chisel once is the part that cannot be skipped.Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT