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21 October 2014 at 1:22 pm #119825
Another nice tight fit, accuracy is alays on my mind I treat my work as I would do for a customer regardless if it’s a job for myself or not. It makes good practice to always practice and never slacken off. Too many times I hear oh this is for the shop so what work your best all the time and it should become a common practice, second nature to you. Remember you will look at that piece for the rest of your life so do it right and it won’t eat at you for the rest of your life.
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Auriou rasps are hand stiched you can view their video on youtube on how they make it. It’s amazing the speed they work at when stiching. I will eventually buy some more in due course but for now these cover most of my work. Come the time for cabriole legs I will a round and rats tail. I wouldn’t mind getting some of their files as well.
Btw Nicholson higher quality one are also available at a much cheaper cost, they too are hand stiched but no where near the quality and the Fench made Auriou.
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I end my day with a bin full of shavings.
There is still more to come as I need to do the aprons, cleats ad finally the fence.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.21 October 2014 at 2:04 pm #119873I’m happy to hear that it really isn’t hard at all, just saw to the line a much as you can and saw straight to minimise any clean up you need to do. start off with the shoulder to begin with make that acuurate so this way if you need to use the shoulder plane for the top half you have something to register off.
His 2 books are amazing and so are the furniture in it to build, I believe they are Krenov inspired pieces which I intend on making them all. I love my clocks but I also love building furniture which I haven’t done for many years as all my time has been devoted to commissioned work on clocks.
I think it’s alot harder making furniture than clocks as everything is larger therefore any inaccuracy just stick out like a sore thumb. On the other hand it’s a relief for me as well as it’s not fiddly like clocks
22 October 2014 at 8:58 am #119896Well another day in the wrokshop but I must admit today I almost bludged out of working. I didn’t start till 11am why because I sat up last night reading blogs till 3am. I know stupid so I had little energy to motivate myself properly to get a lot done but something is better than nothing and in the world of hand tools only you cannot afford a late start. Ideally you should be up and ready to go before the cock crows. Is that word permitted on the site. lol.
As you can see I’m using different timber, I bought this log for about $20 about 12 months and I rough sawn it to multiple boards amazing huh great deal I know it will never happen again but anyway he claims it to be cedar I rightly don’t know what it is. I have red cedar whicch I bought a slab from the lumber yard sure it’s similar but not the same. Does anyone know what kind of timber this is.
As you can see I planed it square on all four sides
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You must be logged in to view attached files.22 October 2014 at 9:07 am #119901Here I marked for ripping I had to use my bandsaw for this as I don’t have a panel saw preferrably 18-20″ long with a tpi of 7 or 8. My rip saw that I use is a 26″ 4 1/2ppi which is about 3 1/2 tpi much too course for such a cut but maybe when I finish off this bench because there will be a split in the middle I will be able to make such a cut. As much as I don’t like to use machinery sometimes if you don’t have the right tools on hand you are simply forced too.
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