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You have to take into account that Paul almost always use machined stock. For that kind of wood it’s true that a #4 is all you need.
My experience is that if you have to prepare your wood from rough stock a #5 is a must have, but unless you’re making pieces longer than 5′ you don’t need anything longer than that.
And surely you don’t need a 500$ n°7 to plane flat a 30″ panel.Anyway I’ve made a lot of pieces from rough stock and my current array of planes is:
No4 transformed to scrub
No5 with a flat iron as flattening plane
No4 as an smoothing plane
No4 1/2 super finely set surface finisherSometimes I put the curved iron of the scrub plane on the #5 if the piece of wood is long
Regards
Mateo
@43gradosnortei’ve built the joiner’s toolchest with european pine and around 15mm thick stock(around 9/16) and it’s a rock. In my opinion is a mobile chest, I mean it is transportable to the worksite, i can move it around myself with no trouble although it’s heavy. I really don’t think a double sized chest in thicker stock could be moved around even in pine.
Now just my humble opinion, almost everything Chris Schwartz does is a little bullshitty, I mean it’s very well explained and written but most of the time of no consecuence for the real handtool woodworker. I mean try to move a 24″deep tool chest made of hardwood by yourself… come on, the whole essence of a tool chest is to be moveable.
anyway my opinion as it’s commonly said on the internet YMMV
I usually use water with the plates, sometimes with a little dishwashing soap and sometimes just water.
The plates themselves don’t rust, the steel particles on the swarf are what actually rust, so make sure to wipe them down when you finish sharpening.
I’ve been using them(DMT interrupted surface) this way for 7 years and just have to replace the coarse one this year because it wore down
hope it helps
regards
Mateo- This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by lutejones.
I’ve made mine with the same dimensions as Joe, roughly 5’x 2′ and after a year more or less working with it. Now I’ll make it minimum 7′ x 30″
The height was 38,5″ but my arms get very tired when planing boards, now is 37,5″ which is perfect for my needs.
MateoThanks Matt,
Hey Wesley how are you doing? Thanks for the compliments mate.
It is amazing in deed, and a little bit arrogant on my part because there are a lot of fields where I’ve got no clue but I try to keep it honest and tell people that I’m still learning, I’ve rejected a couple of commissions so far because I didn’t see myself proficient enough to make a product I can feel proud of.
But if you don’t challenge yourself you can’t grow!!
I hope everything is well on the Netherlands.
Cheers
MateoThanks a lot for the support guys :))
in deed having my family behind is a blessing David, and Peter I hope you are right!!.
Some more pictures of this week’s work.
a couple of versions of a coat rack that a client asked for and gave me freedom in the design (in the end he kept the triangular one)As I cannot afford to rent a place for my shop exclusively right now, I found a coworking workshop where I can work and share space and ideas with other people. I’ll post when done moving the bench and the tool chest are already there. I’m gonna miss the home shop though.
regards
Mateo- This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by lutejones.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.Hey guys,
thank you very much.
It’s been super fun to make, specially the tool box. I’ll recommend everyone thinking of building it, to jump right into it. It may seem intimidating but the videos explain the step by step very nicely and the end result is going to look nice inspite of the gaps.Wesleee!!! a hug from Spain for you and your wife(and the flying stone-eater ;D )
regards
MateoHey guys
thank you for your responses, In the end I found I spot with perfectly level ground for the bench in the room
@tctc100 actually, I used three saws
An old Spear & Jackson tenon saw 11ppi
A Disston no7 big rip saw 6ppi
And a Japanese kataba medium for cross cuttingHere are some photos of new projects made on the new bench, another cutting board made of some reclaimed wood and ebony on my first box made with the same kind of wood.
Tomorrow I’ll leave to Penrhyn Castle to assist to the nine day foundational course
IM SO EXCITED!!!See you in ten days
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You must be logged in to view attached files.THE WONDERFUL JOURNEY OF WOODWORKING
Hello guys,
thank you very much for the ad-vise(hehe) again, the workbench is finished. I’ve decided to apply a couple of coats of tung oil with mineral spirits as finishing (not yet applied) because is what I have at home.In the end I made a recess for the vise to go into, and It ended up 3/8″ under the bench top, and now with the reclaimed hardwood jaws is flush with it.
Oh how it sucks being a beginner…
when I finished the recess I realised that the bars of the mechanism where touching the underside of the bench top and no longer moved freely, so I recessed a housing for the bars. Then the same happened with the well board of course, but by that time I was aware of it at least.
Besides I managed to split a big chunk of the inside of the apron while cutting the hole for the vise and also to marvellously let the rear jaw drop on top of my hand by accidentaly touching the quick release lever while measuring something with the vice vertically on the floor. Lucky me that it wasn’t fully opened at the time or the outcome would have been much worse than the nasty bruising I have.
In the end I’m really happy with the bench, and was a great learning experience.One last question, now It’s at 38 1/2″ and It’s pretty comfortable but when sawing it moves a little, the floor is nowhere near level because the house is old and the wooden floor is very uneven and the bench being 24″ inches wide I think it’s too much leverage, could dropping 1″ the height help with this??.
some pictures of the bench and the first project.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.Hey guys,
thank you very much for the answers.
It seems that it is not going to be so easy, the eclipse vise I was thinking about was at around 130 euros, but when I tried to check out and pay, handling and delivery summed up to a total of…… almost 400 euros!!!!!. NO WAY I’m spending that much.
So I turned to ebay uk, and there almost every seller says collect in person only.
I went to a store in my town and they have a cast iron vise made in taiwan that looks solid enough but the inside jaw is 60mm tall on the back side and my benchtop 81mm, so if I mount it in my bench I’ll have a gap of 3/4″ between the top surface and the metal jaws, Is that acceptable??.On the other topic, I spend the sunday evening trueing up the bad studs for the well board. They turned up well enough.
I have to thank Paul and the team again, the workbench is a perfect learning trip, I could never have done that before the experience I walked through making the bench.After boring you a pic of the bench with the tools that made it possible
regards
MateoAttachments:
You must be logged in to view attached files.Hey guys,
thank you very much for all your responses,
here are some more photos of the table:
detail of the breadbore end
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my dog colormatching the table ;), you can also see the pocket mortises for the turnbuttons
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and the finished product with 3 coats of sapele/teak colored varnish
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[IMG]http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj633/lutejones/501B9C2B-6B27-4A30-9B31-6A89629B9D9D_zpsntpd7oou.jpg[/IMG]It was really fun to make although is a 10 feet table, it looks great from 10 feet away hehe.
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