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Bob Smalser is a tree farmer, sawyer, and habitat biologist.  He resides in Seabeck, WA. 

Bob's passion is restoration of classic wooden boats and working with classic woodworking tools.  He is a third generation craftsman and proud of his son to carry this tradition.

The articles presented here are expression of Bob's experience with woodworking, old tools restoration, and his respect for the life and nature.

If you have a question, contact Bob at: smalser@wavecable.com

• Rehabilitating Old Chisels

• Rehabbing Wooden Planes

• The Haunched and Drawbored Mortise and Tenon

• Files, Filing, Filling and Finishing… Metal

• 8-Siding or Octagon Marking Gage

• The Incredibly Versatile Sweep Brace

• Shop-Made Joiner and Boatwright Tools

• Wood Chisel Survey for Beginners

• An Inexpensive 50-Degree Smoothing Plane

• Making a Spar Plane Inexpensively

• The Drawknife

• Basic Sharpening

• Two Saw-filing Horses

• New Life for an Old Saw – Advanced Filing and Restoration

• Straightening Bent Handsaw Blades

• Block Plane Selection, Rehab and Tune-up

• Are Your Glue Joints Repairable?

• Rustproofing Tools

• Improved Coping Saw

• Tuning Card Scrapers

• Rehabilitating Old Planes

• Repairing and Restoring Varnished Hardwood

"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think...that a time is to come when those (heirlooms) will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ‘See! This our father did for us." - John Ruskin.

• Mr. Wizard

• Snow Today Here At Sprague Pond