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29 December 2022 at 11:00 pm #785037
“First off, I donβt know what filing rip cuts progressively means. …”
I’d assume it refers to the practice of giving a more aggressive ‘rake’ to the teeth progressively from the toe of the blade to the heel.
20 February 2022 at 12:38 pm #749446Thanks Larry, Benoit, Ed.
Yes, what I’ve been seeing is Paul taking up the backlash. When he then makes the actual adjustment, he is so quick/adept/subtle with his custom-tuned plane and strong fingers that I wasn’t seeing it happen. I’ve dismantled my own (old, acquired) plane for tuning.
19 December 2020 at 2:58 pm #690756Thanks, Jonas, for the advice and inspiring photos. I’m having enough challenge working with lumber, which is really what I’m trying to learn; experimenting with green wood would be interesting but a distraction at this point – although I can see merit in starting at ‘square one.’ I’m a bit old for that π :). Of the woods you named, Birch is the only one I could easily find here unless I cut down someone’s tree. So I’ll get some birch & go from there. You’ve put me on track to consider splitting rather than sawing – thanks.
Around here (W. Canada) Rowan is called Mountain Ash but as an ex-Scot I know its ‘real’ name.
8 December 2019 at 12:29 pm #634571Larry: The auger set I’m pursuing is – surprisingly – right here in town. I already have an ‘egg beater’ drill. Also have an old Yankee driver but it needs attention. I do have quite a collection of ‘conventional’ drill bits; don’t particularly want to replace them with hex shanks (and find a hex chuck adapter from somewhere.) When all else fails I will fall back on my cordless or even corded power drills. But ‘one thing at a time!’ Today I hope to finish refurbishing & remounting my vice. Meantime thanks for all your helpful suggestions.
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8 December 2019 at 1:03 am #634443Larry, thanks for the comprehensive information & photos. I’d been skeptical about a hex shaft being securely held & centered in the brace jaws, but I see that – as you said – it does work (tried it with a screwdriver bit.) In fact I now see that it can even work with round shafts. But I’m also on the trail of an old, boxed, auger-bit set. Haven’t seen it yet or discussed price but I don’t suppose it will be real cheap. This is a remote small town where all the cool, knowledgeable-owner-operator businesses have folded with the advent of two big box stores. Anything slightly unusual is very hard to find.
Enough of my whining! Thanks again for all the help.
6 December 2019 at 5:53 pm #634048[postquote quote=633921][/postquote]
Hi Larry, I’m a bit confused (not by your reference to a 14″ adapter; I figure you meant 1/4″ π ). The adapters in your photo have shanks – I mean the male ends that fit in the brace – that look like they wouldn’t be properly gripped by the square-grooved, tapered jaws of the one I have (which I thought were the most common jaws used in braces from, say, 70-150 years ago.
18 November 2019 at 5:14 pm #628470Dean, Sven & Larry: Thanks for your responses. In terms of ‘not-fine’ or just plain sloppy woodwork I’ve been blaspheming all my life. Just recently I decided to get a bit more religious. It began with a desire to reduce my reliance on machinery; and the attraction swelled after stumbling on some of Paul Seller’s very inspiring you-tube videos.
But after discovering how difficult it will be to develop the necessary skills at my advanced age I’m pondering how devout a convert I really want to be. Most likely I’ll be like one of those religious folks a bit flexible day-to-day about which commandments they’ll bother with.
Well, enough of that analogy! I’m having a lot of trouble with ‘where to start?’ The thickness gauge question arose in the context of building a ‘poor man’s rebate plane’ which I actually started before realizing it was far too ambitious for now. I lack the necessary skills (which I will practice), enough quality tools (which I can ill afford), and quite likely the longevity to acquire many of these things; I’m 82. Plus I find that most of the tutorial projects are about items I won’t have much use for, so I want to come up with my own while incorporating skill-building techniques from the videos.
I could get very long-winded here (!) so I’ll quit. But I need to find my way around the forum and go ask some questions about saw sharpening.
9 November 2019 at 4:41 am #625648Thanks Larry. You confirmed that my assumptions are a) correct and b) largely irrelevant. I like that. The paper shim is a good trick if I ever get accurate enough to need it. Consistency of the rail heights is understood, but maybe not how I’ll achieve it :).
9 November 2019 at 2:07 am #625622[quote quote=625619]The outside edges ride on the depth gauge.[/quote]
That’s understood; but the plane iron cuts slightly lower than those edges. Hence, will the the finished workpiece not be a little thinner than the full height of the depth gauge rails?- This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Alexander Miller.
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