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Eoin Reardon Irish Bodger, makes a ladder

 
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One of my favorite makers   demonstrates making a ladder and teaches the whys:

 https://youtube.com/shorts/TjoRQbNEn4c?si=ePjtgd62jUI-UiDC  
 
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Very nice demo and explanation. I want a tenon cutter! I have done it with a jury rig on my table saw, but for a common tenon size, the one shown would be the bomb.
 
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I know, right?
Given his love of old tools, I take his use of it as a serious endorsement.
That tool could really get a lot done, even if one were using the demonstrably weak branches.
 
Don't count your weasels before they've popped. And now for a mulberry bush related tiny ad:
Heat your home with the twigs that naturally fall of the trees in your yard
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