Understanding The Holdfast Batten
Welcome to our comprehensive guide on The Holdfast Batten. A sturdy workbench is essential for hand tool woodworking. You need to be able to clamp your work in many different ways, but ...
Key Takeaways about The Holdfast Batten
- A quick tip showing how I clamp thin stock to the workbench for hand planing. Here's a link to some of my other hand tool jigs.
- Joshua introduces the amazing historic
- The holdfast
- The Hold Fast
- Handmade matched pair of Swedish style
Detailed Analysis of The Holdfast Batten
I learned about this technique from Richard over at www.theenglishwoodworker.com (check him out, also here on Youtube! A few months back, Tim Charles (AKA @asliceofwood) asked me if I would like him to make me a set of hand forged A holdfast
In this video I show how I make wedges on, and for the Roman workbench. I also discuss the use of combining the wedge with a ...
In summary, understanding The Holdfast Batten gives us a better perspective.