Making Dowels
The seat on the Waterfall stool I built with Evan Dunstone last year (Issue 149) featured 17 rock maple slats cleverly pinned to the frame with bamboo dowels.
It was Evan who introduced me to a dowel
Rebuilding a Stanley No 52
The Stanley tool company built both the No 51 chute plane and the No 52 chute board from 1909 until 1943. That makes any Stanley No 51 or 52 at least 80 years old. The plane itself has No 51 cast into its body. The plane is designed to fit into a chu
