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Zen-Wu chisel handles turned from red ring-cupped oak
The Ring-Cupped Oak
On red ring-cupped oak, the wood in our handles and planes, and its name. Read more...
The Unmarked Plane
The Unmarked Plane
Where the maker's name is, and is not. Read more...
On Soft Substrates
On Soft Substrates
Why our diamond plates are not bonded to steel. Read more...
What the Tool Sharpens
What the Tool Sharpens
Attentive effort as the material of human connection. Read more...
Zen-Wu quality control at the bench
What the Hand Knows
On why the axiom is not arbitrary. Read more...
Wood shavings from a Zen-Wu plane
The Axiom
What Zen-Wu is a name for. Read more...
Bird spreading its wings while landing on a hand
Why We Switched from Yanwen to DHL (and Slept Better Afterwards)
From two-week waits and occasional disappearances to four-to-five days worldwide. Read more...
Brown and white wood grain
On Form
Why constraint generates what freedom cannot. Read more...
Sharpened edge showing the mist line
The Mist Line
Most professional furniture makers have a mist line on every edge they own, and do not know it. Read more...
Laminated plane blade and steel detail
On Laminated Blades
A long-standing solution to making a blade both sharpenable and durable: two steels joined together. Read more...
Chinese hand planes arranged on a workbench
A Beginner’s Guide to Chinese Planes
The Chinese plane's defining concept is balance. A beginner's guide to holding it, and to how it differs from its Japanese and Western cousins. Read more...

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