Originally Posted by
David Kuzdrall
You did this pounding on a toothed saw plate? I am guessing that you had some amount of wood between the hammer and the teeth?
Do you have any photos of the steel plate and hammer you used to close the gap?
THX
I use the softwood "bat" method to hammer my plates into backs. I just grab a piece of scrap pine round over one edge of it for hitting and then taper one end so I can grip it. I then plow a groove in another scrap to set the spine in and hammer in the plate starting at the toe using the bat. This is the method that TFWW/Gramercy uses to seat their plate in their folded spines. The "bat" gets all chewed up but that's kinda the point...it gives before the teeth or plate do. Works great!
The method is illustrated here on pg. 4. http://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/p...KITXX_INST.pdf
Last edited by Chris Griggs; 07-15-2013 at 10:45 AM.
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