Charlesworth

David Charlesworth demonstrates how shooting boards can help you achieve accurate work quickly and reliably. He also shows you how easy it is to make simple shooting boards and miter fixtures, the many practical applications of these workshop aid and how to shoot free-hand.

David Charlesworth unlocks the secrets of chisels, simple but sophisticated tools. Properly tuned and used chisels are capable of very precise freehand work. Join David's exploration of this versatile tool

David Charlesworth unlocks the secrets of chisels, simple but sophisticated tools. Properly tuned and used chisels are capable of very precise freehand work. Join David's exploration of this versatile tool.

David Charlesworth's 3rd DVD
Hand Tool Techniques Part 3 - Precision Shooting Simplified.
63 minutes Code DCDVD3

This DVD explores five important skills that will help you refine your woodworking. Woodworkers often debate the best way to get a smooth surface directly from the hand plane on difficult to plane woods. David’s techniques are easy and effective. Other tips on edge jointing, finish planing an assembled frame and panel, crisp decorative bevels to finish edges, and the effective use of the shoulder plane are all well thought out and refined by years of experience.

Part 2 - Hand Planing - stop shavings and stright edges, datum surfaces, bumps, face edge, wind, thicknessing to a gauge line, planing end grain and square edges, placing a knife line, flattening your benchtop.

* Part 1 - Plane Sharpening - keeping your waterstones flat, preparing the back of your blade, The Ruler trick, honing the bevel, preparinga curved blade, re-sharpening a curved blade, fetling the chip-breaker, assembly of the blade and chipbreaker and setting up the plane.

Hand Tool Techniques Part 1: Plane Sharpening Derevoobrabot

Keeping your waterstones flat, preparing the back of your blade, The Ruler trick, honing the bevel,
preparinga curved blade, re-sharpening a curved blade, fetling the chip-breaker, assembly of the blade and
chipbreaker and setting up the plane.

In A History of British Motorways, Dr Charlesworth presents a fascinating account of the way political and social attitudes concerning motorways have evolved. He describes the early road policies before and between the two World Wars and goes on to cover the building accelerated in the 1960s; however, during the 1970s objections began to be raised on environmental and social grounds.These, coupled with the oil crisis of 1973/4 and the general downturn in the economy, reduced the progress that was being made....