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20 March 2018 at 12:32 pm #503076
Thank you very much for your insight, Ed. Yes, I also found out that lining up all joints is best, but in the temporary setup I had not always feasible. It was particularly wrist-saving. And I also tried pulling the plane 🙂
I think both positions should also be possible in a very low workbench, but only when sitting on it of course. I see that I should probably go with either a rather tall one or a very low and narrow one I can sit on.
24 November 2015 at 5:41 pm #132655I use regular pig hair brushes and I don’t clean them, I think this is in fact one of the nicest qualities of shellac, no hassle, no waste whatsoever. I soak the brush 15 to 30m in the shellac (a small brush takes less time) and it’s ready to go.
I wouldn’t soften the brush in pure alcohol beforehand because it’s gonna take a while until you are brushing on the full strength, especially if the brush is large, natural bristle brushes retain a lot of product.
Just for the record I use rubbing alcohol.
24 October 2015 at 4:48 pm #131655I use olive oil on all kitchen wood (cutting boards, spoons) because that’s what I have in the kitchen, whatever is not absorbed, which isn’t much, gets washed off on the next wash. I never noticed it going rancid used in this way (everything gets good use and washed often), but I would not mix it in a wax unless I made small amounts to use straight away, I am sure I’d then go rancid in half a year or a year.
Walnut oil is a drying oil so it’d be great for the kitchen if there isn’t anyone around with nut allergies. Jojoba oil doesn’t go rancid easily, but I haven’t tried making wax with it.
I would not use turpentine in the kitchen either. You can use lemon oil as a food safe solvent. I’ve read about that but I haven’t tried it either.I’ve made wax with “boiled” linseed oil (not food safe, the “boiled” part is some metal salts they add to speed up the drying process). Mix it with turpentine and bees wax, you can add some essential oil to make it smell even better. Again, not for the kitchen!
24 July 2015 at 1:47 pm #128780Well, @gary ‘s post prompted me to have just another look on eBay… and I found a most fantastic UK seller willing to ship a Record 53 to me :))))
I paid £45 for the vice and £30 for shipping, which is ok considering how big and heavy this thing is! I’m happy to report I can actually lift it on my own 🙂 which I did not expect to. Everything looks fine, although of course I don’t have much idea (yet, I hope).
SO, I encourage others to just ask the seller, you may get lucky.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.11 July 2015 at 4:47 pm #128420That’s about 135 euro, for that price there’s a new German quick-release one at fine-tools.com: http://www.fine-tools.com/spindel.html
Does anyone have one of these or heard about them?
4 July 2015 at 8:33 am #128210For those of us in continental Europe, what are our options? The eBay vices from the UK are mostly collection only, and I don’t want to know what I’d be charged for shipping anyway 🙂
3 July 2015 at 8:49 pm #128208I have been subscribed to the Aldi and Lidl newsletters for months, no chisels showing up (I’m in Belgium). I finally gave up and bought 3 Ashley Iles. Do you guess what comes next? 😉 week or two later this pops up in the newsletter:
These are not the same chisels we’re looking for, but I thought it was worth a try. 3 chisels (12, 18 and 25mm) and three files 5round, flat and half round) for 30 euro. I am afraid I cannot comment on the quality because I am a total beginner and I haven’t tried them either. Apart from the dreadful handle, which can be changed I suppose, they look pretty nice, if chunky. Here one compared to other chisels:
Top to bottom, Stanley (from 2008), Aldi, Ashley Iles
Left to right: Ashley Iles, Stanley, Aldi, Ashley Iles, Ashley Iles, Aldi, AldiDunno if these pop up elsewhere.
7 December 2014 at 1:17 pm #121933Very nice, good job! Yeah on the first picture on the front it also looks like there’s two tones.
2 December 2014 at 7:19 am #121709Hi David, it does sink in, at least half to a millimetre I would think. You can test that in a piece of wood, dye it and then cut it, although different kinds of wood probably absorb it differently. I’ve found beech difficult to work with.
If possible, I would try to test it first in a piece of the same type of wood and tone. If it is a thin layer of veneer, you probably wouldn’t be able to remove the dyed part without too much damage.
If all the colour came off readily when you scraped the finish (from the images, maybe it didn’t? it is difficult to tell), they probably didn’t use this type of dye originally. I hear you can dye your shellac with an alcohol based dye, like for leather, but I haven’t tried it myself. That may work nicely, but other coloured finishes I have tried, they look to me like they just sit on top in a weird manner.
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1 December 2014 at 9:57 pm #121691I am not a specialist, that said, I think walnut husk dye (I think it is known as Van Dyke crystals in English) could be a good option, perhaps it is what was originally used, it has been used for centuries (probably millenia) as a wood stain, ink, etc. It is lightfast. I use it very often.
You can make a mix from very light to very dark, and you can build up layers until you get the depth you want. It is water based, which is nice and easy, but also raises the grain a little. I don’t find that much of a problem, though. You can then flatten the grain back a bit rubbing with a bunch of straw.
You just mix the crystals, which are quite inexpensive (I find them in bulk at the local drugstore), with lukewarm water, until they are dissolved, and apply with a brush or a rag. Careful to work fast, in the direction of the grain, and not overlap partially-dried strokes, then you may get darker marks. It is a bit tricky to apply, it behaves a lot like watercolour.
Oh, I also use distilled water because the water in my area has a lot of solid impurities, but this is probably overkill.
I attach an example, I dyed these oak floorboards with one layer of rather concentrated stain. In this case I used a very wide brush in nearly one stroke.
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