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“In Flanders Fields”, by John McCrae, 1915. For Memorial Day.

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Ouch. That one hurt.

(From the June 2025 issue of Popular Woodworking. In all seriousness, this was a great article by Logan Wittmer on building a Craftsman desk.)

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Hello Wilber, thank you for the great info, I have a question in regards to using a Japanese plane for shooting board, and with the way kanna bottom is made to shave wood, with 2 0r 3 points of contact on it , in your opinion, do you see the kanna bottom flat enough to use in a shooting board vs a flat no 7 western plane for example, which has a true flat bottom. thank you Tony

Thanks for the kind words. I really appreciate it.

I use my Japanese planes for shooting all the time. Despite the 2- and 3-point contact design used for the sole of a Japanese plane, using them for shooting is perfectly fine. If you're on the desktop version of the blog, you can do a search for "shooting" to find all the posts I have on using a Japanese plane with a shooting board.

I've covered shooting the end grain and the long grain edges, and other details about using a shooting board.

You may think that the 2 or 3 point contact set up of the sole of a Japanese plane would cause problems with a shooting board, but in practice, it's not an issue. I've also used shooting boards with western planes. In both cases, the results depend more on technique than on the plane itself.

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I can't believe it's been 15 years since I first started writing Giant Cypress. Time flies, and it's been a fun ride. Here's to another 15 years or more!

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Happy Year of the Snake from Hello Kitty and Giant Cypress!

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Dec. 10. Another flat kaiju.

Actually, when I opened the flap for Dec. 10, the compartment was empty, as well as the compartment for Dec. 11. I opened the box, and slid out the tray to see what was going on. Here's what I found.

All the rest of the days were flat kaiju, and the strings indicate that they are to be used as ornaments. Because they were flat, they had migrated out of the compartments.

This is fun and all, but not what I expected based on the photos on the website that I ordered it from. I thought this was going to be a month's worth of Godzilla miniature figures.

I'm asking for a refund. Boo.

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Dec. 9. Wasn't expecting a flat kaiju.

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Dec. 8.

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Dec. 7.

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Dec. 2.

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Godzilla Advent calendar! One Godzilla (or maybe a related kaiju) every day until Christmas Eve. So excited.

Here's Dec. 1.

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Happy Thanksgiving from giant Cypress.

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This has become a bit of a tradition here at giant Cypress.

This is one of the best Veteran’s Day songs, ever, even if it was written for Australia’s version of today.

God bless our vets, all of them.