It's the nature of men's hobbies. Look at Harley Davidson, now a lifestyle brand.
Cabelas, where one can spend $20k on hunting gear in a few hours- I'm talking about scent blocking chewing gun,...
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It's the nature of men's hobbies. Look at Harley Davidson, now a lifestyle brand.
Cabelas, where one can spend $20k on hunting gear in a few hours- I'm talking about scent blocking chewing gun,...
No thats a coarse synthetic stone. I think that any time you see a stone in a case like that, with that blue/black/grey crud all over the inside, its a coarse india or crystolon type. Reason being,...
The only time I go for my 4 1/2 is for 1 3/4 and 2" face frame stock. It's nice to hit it in one pass. The idea that the extra 3/8 in width is going to do you any good on a large surface seems more...
I tried to follow the grinder with a coarser coticule the other day, it worked, semi quickly , but the amount of slurry I kicked up was very wasteful. I bet it was almost $1 worth! The stone...
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to...
Sean's stone sounds like a washita... David you said some of your washitas near translucent in edge quality- I was candling some hard arks with a flashlight earlier (I know living on the edge right)...
I only know one group of guys who are willing to quadruple their budget for something with a label on it... And I know at least 2 guilty parties in this thread :)
There must be some kind of...
I can't believe these vintage labeled stone prices. A couple years ago you couldn't give a #1 washita away!!
These prices have got to crash. There's no way this can be maintained.
+1 what Dave said- I'd crosscut depth stop lines to within 1/8" or so of the desired shape and chop off the waste with a chisel, then finish with rasp/compass plane/card scraper
I have a 1" chisel with the edge ground almost square it works well and is a little less aggressive than the razors too
I take the handle off, spray the saw with wd40, and slice the rust off the plate with a razor. If the edge of the razor gets dinged it can scratch the plate, so I toss them as soon as they start to...
My most bloodthirsty planes are my LV side rabbet and the nickers on my 289.
The side rabbet usually cuts me on its way out of the toolbox, before it even sees wood!
Here is mine with a decently filed flat in front of the mouth. I should note that the whole body is nickeled everywhere but the flat, which is raw .
Using a reproduction to determine the...
My lv block plane rusts like crazy. I've given up! I strike the fuzz off with a razor blade when it gets bad but that's about it. I'm hoping that one day it will darken to the point that it...
I've put all my naturals away in favor of a high speed grinder and a norton 4/8. Its fast,and usually i dont even use water- i just wash it off when it gets too black.
Part of it was because I...
Slick and shiny with a nice faint scratching sound to go with it. It works great.
David, remember that razor hone i lapped (and ruined) and then tried to fix with super cut shellac? Its still going strong! I even had it in my truck for a while to touch up chisels at work. Ill...
Hardly anyone goes into a large depatment-type home store looking for a file to do any sort of delicate or fine artisan work with! People think files sharpen axes and lawnmower blades! Everything...
Heres what I have got on the shelves inside.
Edit---> picture got rotated somehow, I dont know how to fix it.
Group photo left to right top row: an aluminum cased carborundum. the only...
I think the best manufactured cutters for acute bevels are the PMV11 from lee valley. My experience is limited to just a few varieties but i have planed edges of birch plywood with a pmv11 cutter at...
Im afraid that if you lower the angle that much the bed will turn into a thin feather of iron that will likely tear. Also if the cutter is ground at any reasonable bevel angle, and used bevel down, ...
I think they were too busy actually making things.
There's really no telling. There are tons of those little block planes around, many have different casting marks. I bet some were other block planes that were themselves used to cast even more. ...
David you mentioned at one point that you had a couple different grades of washita- how do they compare? What about soft arkansas?
The siegley lever cap plays double duty as a chipbreaker. Thats why it has two set screws that reference it off of the crossbar- so it can be perfectly adjusted. It was never sold or marketed as a...