#nonails

Skill to Art.

Hand planes, wood, restoration.
No nails. No hurry.

Some tools exist for decades before reaching hands that understand them. This place is about those tools — and about the work that comes from them.

A plane is not a machine. It is a conversation between hand, wood and edge. That conversation lasts a lifetime.

In the workshop

Wood joint — Sushi Serving Set

Sushi Serving Set

American walnut. Four bowls, a chopstick holder, a serving tray. Screw joints and traditional Japanese peg joinery throughout — no glue, no metal fasteners.

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Walnut moves differently every winter.

Collection · Stanley No. 2

No. 2 Collector

The smallest Bailey-pattern bench plane. 74 catalogue variants — who made them, when, how they differ. Daily eBay availability digest.

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