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8 February 2016 at 6:26 pm #134649
Thank you @scottchensoda, I am glad to hear that you are happy with it.
May I ask where did you purchase your blades? I have been reading about a handful of websites where quality blades can be purchased, both in the UK and in Italy, where I live, and I wanted to hear from you your own experience, if you don’t mind 🙂6 January 2016 at 7:24 pm #133724That’s what you want when you go through life… You want people to say: “he cared”
— Paul Sellers
2 December 2015 at 10:42 pm #132828Very well executed!
I built something similar to yours (not as beautifully executed) with the piece where the saws are inserted into which is not glued. This way I can modify the existing piece or insert a new one if I decided to change the way I spaced the sawsAttachments:
You must be logged in to view attached files.16 November 2015 at 8:40 am #132473As a follow up, I recently received a box of hardwood shorts from the UK, which I purchased on eBay to practice with hardwood. Now I understand why some people mentioned that pine is harder to work with because of the very noticeable difference between the soft and hard rings. I have also improved my sharpening by adding a strop made of leather and using the green compound. The chisels are sharper and cut through the hard wood with better consistency and almost no tear out. The planes are even able to slice some nice end grain shavings, which is a first for me 🙂
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You must be logged in to view attached files.23 October 2015 at 10:35 am #131627@mattmcgrane – now that’s an awesome reference – while I haven’t found the answer I was looking for, that guy really knows his saws!
19 October 2015 at 7:04 pm #131474@jotato: very kind of you – unfortunately I live in Italy, a bit far away 🙂 in fact finding wood is my hardest task… even just a couple of boards of bad looking pine here can cost around 20 euros 🙁 I used to live near NY for about ten years and remember now with envy the racks full of wood at the Home Depot, hehehehe…
For now I will continue with a few more boxes until I get more familiar with the gestures, with the sawing, handling the tools, sharpening the irons and chisels.
I have also found an interesting eBay seller from the UK who can ship shorter pieces of wood to Italy and has a wide variety of types of wood – I can’t wait to try something harder than pine, but for now this will have to do 🙂19 October 2015 at 6:59 pm #131473@mattmcgrane: “With practice will come more confidence. Your chisels will be sharper and your hammer blows more solid. Eventually you’ll get the dovetail cut out with fewer blows.” I think that’s the key – being my first box I feel like when I was learning to drive, and I had to think where to but my hands, how to change gears, when to accelerate or when to press the clutch 🙂
As a side note, the piece was in the vice for when I remove the waste… then gets out for the hammering, in and out, like Paul says, as a safety measure 🙂19 October 2015 at 6:51 pm #131468@frankj, this is very interesting. The pin recesses had about 10-15 annual rings within 14mm, and it took me about 10-12 rounds of hammering + chiseling the waste before reaching breaking point (almost always with a fracture in the middle). Intuitively, I was using the Stanley knife to perfect the wall each time, breaking off the compressed fibres of the wood. Thus it makes a lot of sense to have a much steeper angle on the chisel to be able to cut through. I don’t have a different set of chisels, for now, but I might try to sharpen mine at a steeper angle without making a rounded bevel at the end of the chisel…
Although, I thought Paul used pine in his first box — https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/2013/01/dovetail-boxes-episode-2/ — and yet he seems to not be having the same issue… It would be interesting to hear his opinion, even though he doesn’t monitor these forums, I assume.- This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by gallarotti.
19 October 2015 at 1:10 pm #131466I am using the EZE-Lap C/F/SF (I believe they are 250/600/1200 grit) and I believe I am removing the burr (at least I feel the burr after sharpening and I am seeing it go away at the end once I turn the chisel on its “back” and pass it once or twice on the 1200.
The detail picture shows that, like you mentioned, the middle part teared (it happened in the first two recesses out of the four I cut, which probably means it’s also a matter of being careful and more conscious about the breaking point).
Maybe I put too much rounding to the tip on my chisels, next time I will try to cut them more at 25-30 degrees all the way to the end. Or maybe I am just not confident enough when I hammer the chisel (although the sound I produce is much louder than what Paul makes when hammering on his chisel).30 September 2015 at 4:20 pm #130958Went to a local lumber yard – they only had pine, so I got 3 boards to start practicing, each 4m long, 15cm wide, 15mm thick… 22euros………. 🙁
21 September 2015 at 9:14 pm #130749I used to live in the US, for many years, @delong1974, so I perfectly know what you mean. I wasn’t into woodworking back then, unfortunately, but I remember how easy it was to find anything you wanted for your house at Home Depot, Lowes, etc. not to mention the amazing number of online options you must have for sure as well 🙂
13 September 2015 at 6:11 pm #130380@cpetersen1970 how could you answer the question posed by the OP? Am I the only one that doesn’t see the first post of every single post?
13 September 2015 at 12:32 pm #130377“I am slightly out of breath… That is because I am 63 (smile) and I don’t run enough”
Also, my initial post seems gone, so I’ll copy it here:
“I am making this look easy… It can be quite difficult”
7 September 2015 at 1:14 pm #130139Awesome work, really! You must be very proud of having built this yourself!
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