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I have raised panels by hand before and was going to try and make a tombstone raised panel by hand (for a spice box).  Anyone know a good technique?  I've made these before with power tools.  My thoughts were to use a rasps to hog away the wood around the arch, then use a chisel or scrapper to...

I saw on e-bay where someone is selling decales for the totes of Stanley planes.  They looked really good.  This caught my eye because a few weeks back I saw a 1930's #4 in somewhat rough shape with a the decale on the tote, and the bidding went nuts.  I wondered how the decale could still be...

I'm making a queen annes desk-on-frame out of cherry and would like input regarding the carbiole legs.  Once cut out, I shapped the legs using a rasp and a mill file.  I know they didn't have "sand paper" in the day to smooth the leg, and I can get the leg fairly smooth with a mill file and card...

Making some tombstone doors and was curious as to how the dado was cut into the top arch.  I imagine some type of curved dado plane was used, or perhaps a modified "old womans tooth."  Any ideas? I find myself garvitating more towards hand tools. Thanks Joe