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Hi Paul,
I may be missing something here. I heard you say once that sanding tears the grain and clogs it with dust, and that it’s better to scrape/plane the piece to avoid tearing the grain.When is sanding appropriate, and is it just something that you’d generally do just before you apply finish having scraped it beforehand?
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I don’t have the problem of missing teeth, but I do have potentially a worse problem… also picked up cheaply this saw is bent.
How do you correct that?
here are two shots – one straight down the blade and one slightly side on where one can see the bend a little better.Also my saw set isn’t adjustable so I can only get one depth of set – should I just go with that set and see what sort of kerf I end up with?
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Really good advice there. Thank you.
Also, Greg, I do believe they are pressure treated. They’ve been pretty indestructible, and have sat around in the snow, wind, sun and rain, and haven’t split or rotted for years.
I had no idea that the chemicals in the wood were that bad. I’ll definitely be more careful – thank you.
Will make sure not to breathe in the sawdust, and not put shavings in the compost any more.
Thank you for point this out.
I’ve got a very good saw mill a couple of miles from here, so will be getting decent wood after this project is done.
This really is looking very good.
I hope mine will be as nice when I come to doing my H-frames in a bit.
I’m recycling a decking for this project. The legs will be five decking boards of 4′ x 3/4′ planed down and glued up.
Hoping that’ll be as strong as two 2x4s glued together. Certainly a lot more planing to do this way, but it uses up some decent wood which has come for free.Mark,
I’m just up the road from you – where do you get your wood?I’ve got a good supply of oak and chestnut from my local sawmill just two miles away; They’ve also got walnut, but that’s at a premium because the Russians are snapping up all our walnut at the moment.
Hi Dave, that’s good advice. Thank you
just so I understand you correctly, you’re saying rather than trying to plane across the full diameter of the knot I should go over it in little chunks? So a sliver of one side, then a bit more till I’ve covered everything?
Yes, will need to sharpen up the irons again – I’m sure that will help too.
I don’t understand what the glue will do to the area. Do I just slap a bit of glue on top? Won’t I just plane that off again and be where I started out before?
I tried going across them with a chisel, but that just looked messy too (probably needs sharpening too).
thank youDifferent question on knots…
I’ve been building my workbench and some of the beams have knots which are on the top of the bench.
Trying to flatten the worktop is incredibly difficult as my planes just ride over the top of the knot making a little bump.If I ever try and lay a piece of stock on the bench it’ll just make dents all over, won’t it?
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For what it is worth, apart from your skills as a craftsman, you’ll need good business acumen as well.
I have a friend who is very good at what he does, but isn’t a great businessman so really struggles all the time to make ends meet and often doesn’t have enough to pay the rent. That’s not a small living let alone a decent one.
I’m thinking I may set up a business one day (but maybe not as a cabinet maker, although who knows…), and if I ever go down that route, my plan will be to build a reputation, before quitting my job so that I have decent solid client base when I get going and don’t have months and months trying to drum up trade.
Debt collecting is the main challenge of fledgling businesses, and many young companies go to the wall, not because they’re not profitable, but because of cash flow problems and having underestimated their debt collection time-scales they become insolvent.
Unfortunately you can be profitable, and still go bankrupt.[quote quote=27224]Canβt wait to see the bench Bond! I had to build my bench first as well.[/quote]
I’ll send you a pic when it’s done. I started it a while ago and made half the top. I was so excited to get going and glue it all up, that I didn’t take out the twist from some of the beams – now I’ve got little gaps here and there. Properly kicking myself now – guess I’ve learned not to be so impatient.
I’ll use that top on the back and be more conscientious with the front bit.
You live and you learn. π Waiting for some nicer weather to get going again.
Hi Guys again,
Some more superb advice there.Looks like the main consensus is not to overstretch on the first few projects but to build up skill and confidence with some smaller pieces.
Once my bench is done I’ll get down to it. I’ll learn a lot just building the bench. π
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