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I bought a blade from a timber framing supplier and paid way too much for it way back when I first saw Paul’s video on making a bow saw. I still have it, but seldom use it. I may make a new one with better features someday with better timber, but until then it still looks good on the wall in the shop.
I wear old clothing except for those days when I forget and then I wear my Sunday bests which are not that different from my old clothes. I do have a bad habit of wearing a half decent sweater and it takes a month of Sundays to pick all the sawdust from it.. Such is life..
I use one of the newer throw away Stanley planes to use for scrubbing and it’s about the only thing it’s good for. I think I paid $14 new at a box store. I was going to throw it away until I needed a scrub one day and it performed great for the task. I probably put too much of a camber to it, but I don’t know what the right camper should be. In any event it did the trick and the piece of wood smoothed out nicely.
A very interesting topic indeed. I have a few old planes with small hairline cracks right at the corners of the mouths. The cracks don’t really effect how they cut, but I do worry about them eventually getting worse at some point even though I can easily replace both. I hadn’t heard of bismuth solder until reading about it somewhere in the thread. (sorry I forget who mentioned it) so I decided to open a new tab to find out what it is, basically lead free alternative to lead based solder with a very low melting point of around 138C. (about 240F) That’s just a bit warmer than boiling water.. How that might stand up to the forces of wood knots, etc.?? Anyone care to take a guess?
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