I built a Gramercy turning saw (with the frame a bit closer to Bill Andersons design) and love it, but I've been kind of pushing it to its limits at times.
I'm thinking I'd love a longer one,...
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I built a Gramercy turning saw (with the frame a bit closer to Bill Andersons design) and love it, but I've been kind of pushing it to its limits at times.
I'm thinking I'd love a longer one,...
Thanks guys; I don't know if I'll record more videos, but I sort of left here while I had some other stuff going on, and have been sharing bits of my WW elsewhere, and thought I'd come back…. Sorry...
Been too long! Finally back in the shop, and this is what happens after I return to the Handtools bench after waaaay to long, and my wife helps me make the audio track after a bit of wine … (snicker)...
A big, long, huge Marples paring chisel. It gets used on *everything*!
Nice work! Looking great!
I was thinking push drill, too, but I've never seen one go out to 3/16" bits
I've actually driven an auger but with a small wrench or chapman style offset ratchet to do similar in my tool cabinet. Worked well enough with a good lead screw.
Huh. This sounds like same bozo that keeps spamming me on Twitter.
do the blades have grooves like traditional plow blades? That would solve Derek's twisting question.
I figure the delay is the extra time needed to re-jigger the entire display boards they use...
Yeah, as a guy who's nail driving is usually limited to smaller cabinetry style stuff, (and hence, fewer nails driven in any one session), I figured technique was more of my issue - maybe I'll have...
Yeah, that was kind of my gut reaction, too. The whole thing will look poorly planned - because it wasn't. (I mean, god, look at the knots in the stock I chose - this is getting painted for sure.) ...
Personal thing, but as cool as they look, I've never liked Estwings for larger hammers - all that metal in the handle fatigues me after a while, and seems to translate the striking force back into my...
Basically, I've got two frames made with these joints: 313778
I want to space them from each other like this: (with two on the top, two on the bottom)
313780
The top piece in the previous...
So I had some narrow stock kicking around, and made a couple of bridle-jointed frames the other day on a whim. I felt like I needed some practice sawing tenons, and figured doing bridle joints would...
All out comparison of base removal?
Used the 3k a lot today… I'm honestly thinking of replacing the Snow White and sigma …
I used to do it a lot on finishes, using a tip from Frank Ford - tape the outside edges, so it only cuts in the middle; then you can quickly get a high spot in the finish (from poor spraying or a...
My wife has the baseline Doxie scanner, mostly for checks, receipts, and invoices, and loves it. We got an older model for just under 100 bucks on sale. The new ones have lots of bells and whistles,...
Like these, George?
http://www.vintagetools.net/product/two-henry-boker-forstner-bits-529bb
Also - you'll have much luck better on eBay if you look for auger bit auctions that don't mention Jennings or Irwin. Takes a little more digging to find a good one, but if someone labels their...
I'd hazard a guess those Brazilian auger bits come from the same place the modern manufacture Brazilian Irwin auger bits I tried one of were from; but I have no way of knowing. I could be totally...
Jim and Warren are spot-on. (imagine that!) Without knifing, the cut is pretty rough on the backside with the saw at 45 degrees to the work, knifing cleans it up acceptably. But with the cuts in...
For me, the trickiest part of rabbets on the end of a small piece (say, something only a couple inches wide) is balancing the length of a plane so I don't get a radically out of square piece,...
That was my thought above, exactly. Honestly, though they call these "tenon" saws, in the cross cut parts of the tenons I make, I'm more likely to reach for a dozuki or a smaller western saw; I...
Given the really relaxed rake on LV saws (I use 0 to 4 or 5 degrees on most rip saws, the LV saw comes at 14), perhaps I'll just file what I've got as cross cut and see if I like it. I can always go...
I finally used my Lee Valley gift certificate and picked up the large tenon saw, in rip cut. I'm really liking it so far. It's a bit spoiling for me; I honestly mostly cut anything bigger than...
Ooh; guess I didn't get this the first time 'round. This is cooler than I thought. I have some oak scraps kicking around; I'm going to go try this now.