Excellent common sense advice as always. My shed is uninsulated so winter is pretty much a dead season. Since I am restless and cannot bear to be away from my tools, I picked up leather \denim working. Nothing fancy, just sheaths and tool rolls for my tools, but it keeps me busy, and it is a wife approved activity inside the house. Sharpening and cleaning small gardening tools like pruning shears are also good activities for freezing days. Thank you for the video, a pleasure to watch it, as always!

You know you have arrived when you got carpet in your workshop :D. The Marples splitproofs are excellent chisels. They were the standard before software engineers discovered woodworking :D. Looking forward towards the new saw video :)

Hi, season's greetings, if you have some heat in your garage, warm enough to be comfortable, then at this time of year be prepared to leave the heat on all the time, otherwise whilst working in there every metal object warms up and once you turn the heat off it condenses and when you go back in the day after every metal object will be wet through, tools ,power tools the lot I'm afraid, causing you a massive clean up, this happened to me a few years back during a cold snap, I was using an electric heater at the time. Apart from having some kind of heat permanently to keep the condensation at bay, then work cold, and keep all metal work oiled up for the winter, when not using it. Thanks for the video mate, stay safe, here's wishing you a your's a merry Christmas. Stuart Uk.

I always enjoy your blogs and down-to -earth advice. I can highly recommend retirement for freeing up time for woodworking. I recently acquired a tool box which was heading for the skip and contained a variety of old and very rusty tools. Cleaning them and getting them to work has been fascinating and I have really enjoyed learning more about their makers. I had never heard of Kangaroo tool( Robert Sorby and Sons) or Mathiesons (an eminent Glasgow edge tool maker). On the subject of working in the cold I find the worst thing is sharpening edge tools as I always find collections of cuts, scrapes and abrasions on my fingers once they warm up to have feeling.

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Enjoyed the video. In my blog, I’d prefer to talk about the things I bought with my own money, which is all of it. At this point I nearly have every thing I want. Certainly have all that I need. I also like doing hand tool work. In terms of machines, bandsaw, planer, drill press, and dust collector are the must haves. I think I could use the planer as a jointer if needed (that plywood and shim trick).

Hi. Really good video as usual thanks. I like the idea of the dehumidifier. I guess that it has a similar consumption to a fridge? Last week -2.6⁰C in my workshop (but relatively dry). Today +12.4⁰C! My fitters vice had pools of water on it. I could have wept. Thankfully Renaissance wax, Camelia oil and WD40 help a bit, but I like your thinking on the dehumidifier. Thanks again Cheers Alan

Have run a dehumidifier in my workshop for many years it's 24x18 insulated with metal roof over the felt roof it's great no rust on my tools every 6 months I wax my tools to keep a y rust away

I saw that big hammer on the workbench and was wondering about it. I've some bruisers myself but the only woodworking they see is driving stakes in the garden. Have yourself a happy holiday season there.

As i'm interested in furniture and guitar building a dehumidifier is a must. But as my working space, about 15 m2, is situated in an angle of 300 m2 storage space with no doors inside and 3 to 4 m high ceiling, a device and it's monthly bills would be prohibitive. 😁 I small heater under the bench for my feet in this period is only thing that i can do, as the temperature in the workshop is around 2 - 8 °C. So i will wait until i fine some other suitable space to do that.