Thanks, Mike! I do enjoy pyrography; if you're interested, I'd recommend giving it a try.
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Thanks, Mike! I do enjoy pyrography; if you're interested, I'd recommend giving it a try.
I built this starting with rough sawn maple using mostly hand tools; the exception was a scroll saw to cut the outline. The University logo was done with pyrography and an inlay of macacauba; the...
Thank you, Richard.
With practice and a properly set up plane, you can get the same kind of surface straight off the plane. Just keep working at it!
I’m nowhere near Warren’s level of skill or knowledge of woodworking, but here’s some unfinished knotty pine off the plane (side of a storage cubby in progress). I haven’t done the final smooth...
I like to use oil finishes straight off the plane. No burnishing.
Here's a recent example.
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I can’t speak for Warren, but Paul Sellers can speak for himself: his apprenticeship included machine mortising to some significant degree. I don’t recall any description of how he learned to mortise...
Whether you’re grumpy this morning or not, you should be able to see that in Tom’s original post he asked a question about the physics of mallets. What followed was a discussion about the physics of...
Maybe you should try going back and reading the thread, including Tom’s original question. Nowhere do I see anyone suggesting using math to choose a mallet—only to understand and demonstrate the...
Let’s continue with your example of the two mallets of 1 versus 2 units of weight and let’s add the condition of identical force. Let’s further take the linear approximation of F = E/d, where d is...
I never claimed simplicity: only accuracy. The difference between 2 and its square root is non negligible.
It’s easy to observe the effects of the losses; quantifying accurately would be more...
Momentum and kinetic energy are, as you say, related—but they’re not interchangeable. As you state, p^2 = 2 m E. It’s the (square root of the) product of mass and kinetic energy that provides the...
While not wholly incorrect, the picture painted above is incomplete (and is a linear approximation of the actually more-complicated mechanics). Further, "d" in this linear approximation is the...
Good point, Rafael, and good question. I stand corrected. With water on hard maple end grain, it wasn’t terribly difficult.
The first full shaving was too thick (image showing the end grain), so...
Maybe I’m misinterpreting what I’m seeing, but to me it looks like the end grain has been soaked in some kind of flexible transparent adhesive to keep everything together. The shaving seems too...
I agree with Mike; my experience says that while nice tools can be a joy to use, skill in use, setup, tuning, and sharpening is the limiting factor in my own work (mostly skill in use). With very few...
Interesting; thanks, Chuck.
It seems that the body being out of square should be a quick and easy fix. The wedge looks a bit short (again, not necessarily a big deal to overcome--one could make...
You might be better served by slightly raising the angle on the finest stone (depending on what you're sharpening) rather than buying a new stone. I'd suggest you try it first (if applicable) and see...
90 degrees to the face/end is indeed critical for well fitting joints; tail angles (pin angles) can be sloppy when cutting tails first (pins first) as long as the appropriate 90 degree condition is...
TLDR: my suggestion--in agreement with others--is that you purchase the Veritas, learn to sharpen and set the saw, gain some real experience sawing with it, and figure out based on experience and...
Thanks for sharing your experience, Robert. I have no experience with abrading Arkansas stones, so it's interesting to hear what others have observed when doing so.
For fast cutting, I generally...
A relevant side note: I have never abraded the surface of my Dan's hard black Arkansas stone, with diamonds or anything else. I see no advantage in doing so when it's still improving in its...
As further evidence in favor of the polishing properties of Arkansas stones, Warren Mickley posted (January 2020) some scratch pattern images by Zowada...
I agree, Luke. The real test of an edge is the surface of the wood after it has been cut. The image below is from a planed pine board from a few months ago using the Dan's hard black Arkansas as...
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The Arkansas Stones we used in the test were new. Before beginning, we tested the specific gravity of each stone then broke them in by making 500 passes over an ordinary kitchen...
To throw in a bit more detail, the idea is to evenly use the entire face of the stone. Although it seems rather self-evident, the more evenly you wear the stone, the longer it stays flat and the less...