I think Vintage Saws recommends 25 degrees laterally ("fleam"), versus 10-ish degrees for the rake. It's the fleam I've used and has worked well so far. I painted a big V on my workbench, centered...
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I think Vintage Saws recommends 25 degrees laterally ("fleam"), versus 10-ish degrees for the rake. It's the fleam I've used and has worked well so far. I painted a big V on my workbench, centered...
Clarified bacon fat here. Works nicely. Unfortunately it loses the smell when clarified.
My single woodworking stone is a Norton combination 1000/8000 grit. Everything in the house goes through this stone: woodworking tools, kitchen knives, beauty tweezers. It works pretty well!
Your process is fine. I think you can shorten it by simply not flattening each board individually in the beginning; just match-plane pairs of boards that will be glued to each other.
I recently...
This is absolutely incredible. I am in awe!
So... are you making an anarchist's toolchest the size of a lunchbox? :)
An advantage of sharpening saws often is that you really learn to notice the difference between a dull saw and a sharp one. If you sharpen them infrequently, you get used to the gradual loss of...
What Sean said. You'll flatten the whole glue-up, not each individual board. A lightly cambered jack plane works great *across* the grain to level things up. It's much faster than trying to...
My life became so much better once I figured out you can actually sharpen dividers, or reshape their points - mine left one prick just a bit "wider" than the other point, and it was unnerving. I...
Nice bench! Very tidy looking. You won't miss the kitchen table one bit :)
I'd stand the door on the long skinny side, clamp it to one side of the workbench, and chisel+mallet down until I meet the original groove. The groove will be hidden, anyway, so it won't matter if...
That's very cool! Those screws are easily available here. I think I'll build a vise just like that. Thanks for posting.
I've found Roy's program to be both inspirational and informative.
When I didn't know anything, I watched the program to get inspiration; one could see just how many things could be built if only...
This is brilliant. I was thinking of cutting up an old/ugly saw to make a stair saw, but for the very limited use I'd give to it, yours is a much better option!
Ah, I see. What I'd do is to make sure that the space between the guides above the runners is barely narrower than the space between the dividers, and pretty tight around the drawer itself.
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Where would you have end grain showing? The way I'm visualizing it, you are going to rip the apron, cross-cut the middle of the sandwich, and reassemble.
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As a Mexican, I wholeheartedly approve of this piece :) Very nicely done.
At my house I have my grandmother's old living room furniture, and it is of a similarly fat/chunky style with turned...
I have a cheap spokeshave, Truper brand (the ubiquitous cheap tools in Mexico) that seems identical to the 12-951, and after doing exactly the kind of fettling you mentioned, it worked much better...
KVMs are nice, but I'm afraid they wouldn't work for me. I often need to look at something while I debug it from another computer, so I do need multiple displays and mice/keyboards.
Thanks, that's a great idea. I've made a couple of corner shelves, and they are indeed fussy to fit.
Man, I should do this more often - ask vaguely about a piece of furniture, and get superb 3D renderings in return :) Thank you! I am definitely going to use ideas from your drawing.
This is the...
That secret drawer is really cool!
Yeah, each wing is about 24" wide and about 60" long, minus the corner. I'll end up using a story stick, because "from the wall to just short of the power outlet, and from the other wall to the...
I'd love to see how Zach builds this.
The bonnet seems excessive... but could you put a little ornate pigeonhole in it, to hold a fat little dictionary or something? Like how Studley's chest has...
Nice fan, Brian! It is worth considering for the desk, although I'll need the wings to float with respect to the fan. Who knows, I can probably draw some marks on the joint and use them as a...
Cory, I got the exact same plane from Patrick a few months ago. It is indeed a joy to use. I haven't used it for cross-grain work yet, but on grooves/rabbets with the grain, it performs superbly.
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