you mean you buy a new one whenever the blade on…   Read more»

@tv101 I do that for a lot of marking out, belly carves etc lol

A tip for drawing curves freehand … rest your hand on the surface on the inside of the curve you want to draw, and sort-of-pivot your hand as you draw the curve.  And do it in one flowing motion rather…   Read more»

Yup, I imagine there would have been some interesting features in that tree.  But, we’d just moved in, knew no-one in the area, and just needed the tree gone before any more bits of it fell on things it shouldn’t…   Read more»

@koendb love nice old hand planes, last year I started with none but by the end of the year I had over 10 lol

@tv101 diseased is best, the more the better! That’s where you get all the cool stuff.
 
Another is a burl, they look amazing! This is an elm burl with just thinned down oil based polyurethane. How insane does that look?!!
 

@russ cheers but no buddy, I couldn’t draw that. I downloaded a free template from the electric herald templates   Then printed using adobe reader, select poster mode and tick the cut lines check box, then it puts little marks…   Read more»

We had a large (diseased) Ash tree cut down a few years ago.
 
Rather sillily, I didn’t keep any of it for guitar wood 🙁
 
“here’s a guitar I made, from a tree I grew!”