In my experience it's easy with straight blades, the difficulty increases with the amount of camber (curve).
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In my experience it's easy with straight blades, the difficulty increases with the amount of camber (curve).
Bob, what's your setup for ripping? Do you use a saw bench, or saw horses, or something else? In my not so extensive experience, sharpness and ergonomics are all you have with hand tools. It sounds...
Thanks Joel, one of the great things about this hobby is dealing with first class tool providers like yourself. I have purchased these files from your store on occasion, but in this case they came...
David, I'm traveling right now, I should have some new ones waiting for me when I get home. If those don't measure up I'll be sending them back with the reasons for the return.
Yes, they are Grobet files. Marked Grobet, with an image of a flintlock pistol.
The last two 5" double extra slim saw files I used didn't look too good out of the package, the edges were rough and one seemed to come to a raised ridge (probably not too clear with my weak...
I seem to recall seeing an old ad for this vise that showed a rubber insert in the slot to cut down on screeching while filing.
Nice! Great to see the in-progress pictures.
I've only looked at the teeny-tiny picture, and I have way too many hand braces already, but this might be useful if you need one:
http://www.sciplus.com/singleItem.cfm/terms/17634
If you...
Nice, nice, and very nice! A fine looking piece.
Oh no! You had to bring up County Comm! I felt a burning sensation in my wallet as soon as I saw the link...
John, I wouldn't worry too much about the middle of the board being slightly lower than the ends - some people do that intentionally, they plane a 'spring' in the middle to counteract the tendency of...
Using some pine leftovers to make doors for a small set of shelves I made for the basement a while ago. Very clear pine with pretty straight grain, which makes the planing easy. Shooting for stub...
Lee Valley has 0.8mm 3 ply Finnish Birch Plywood:
Finnish-Birch Plywoods
http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=32736&cat=1,250,43217
Finnish-Birch Plywoods
I got some 271 plane irons from him years ago. I also talked to him on the phone. Irons were good, and came fairly quickly.
LOL, that's a great thread ender.
Hi Paul, that's a nice looking bench, like Junior (Harry) said, lots of character. One option for repairing the rotten parts is a liquid epoxy kit:
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Well, it was perfect before I dropped it... Now it has cracks in the section I'm cutting off. It's just too heavy as is for one person to move easily. I thought about stopping before I added the last...
Note that plough planes can't cut the very beginning or very end of stopped grooves because of the skate in front of and behind the blade.
I guess that's why some Shaker dovetailed boxes have...
I'm grateful to all tool collectors for increasing my knowledge about tools - and making old tools easy to find.
Not collecting *doesn't* mean I don't spend a lot of time reading about old tools...
Brian, sent you a PM.
Maurice
Hi Thomas,
See if this makes sense - take a scrap board or a piece of paper, go to a corner, measure 1" in on the bottom, and go up 8". Draw a line between the 2 points and that's your angle.
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If you do go the 4 1/2 route, note that early ones have a completely differently shaped tote that didn't fit my size 11 hands very well. I wound up switching to a type 17 (WWII) version.
Maurice
When you do get it set up, give the blade a break once in a while. I actually turned a Hock replacement blade blue once while working on an ash table top.
Maurice
Hi Robert,
Not sure, but I think what you want is a "casing" profile:
80044
(The area with the gray lines represents the blade)