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17 May 2021 at 11:53 pm #713640
Interesting topic. I have had the same issue with my coarse EZE lap stone. My fine stone cuts much more quickly than my coarse after 6 months of light use. The coarse feels like a super ultra fine now. Thanks for sharing your observations
– Riley16 April 2019 at 11:17 pm #556075Alright well. In this day and age 24 hrs without a response is not good business. Cancel my purchase or I will seek action. I used my “credits” to see a video so I don’t require a refund. I have come to know Paul as a pillar of good customer service. I am sad to see that this is the result of his expansion. I will not recommend WWMC to anyone in the future.
Best regards,
R Lennon28 March 2017 at 2:13 am #310615This turned into a cool picture gallery! All beautiful, functional, hand-made tools. I’m thinking of making dovetail saw next. That should be an adventure
25 March 2017 at 6:36 pm #310509Brilliant. I am sick and tired of sharpening on sandpaper; but, I cant afford stones. This looks like a great alternative to try. Thanks for sharing
Riley
25 March 2017 at 6:21 pm #310506I used two washers attached with epoxy to the “sleeve nut”. Sorry I dont recall the real name. The adjuster was made with a sawed down carriage bolt epoxied into the body
13 March 2017 at 5:09 pm #310125Thanks for the like Mike and Rob! My “workshop” has quickly relegated both cars to the driveway. Luckily I have a supportive spouse. We will see what she thinks when its 115 degrees outside. I might have to put some wheels on the bench to move it out of the way.
And thanks for the tip on brass screws Brett. I actually did go to furniture was on the threads of the screws, and it worked very well.
Best Regards,
Riley11 March 2017 at 12:07 am #310030ohh yeah. I forgot about brass wood screws. Cheap, brass wood screws. I went through them like a kid eating his Halloween candy. Even with pilot holes, I was able to snap the shafts in half. Then I would have to dig the remnants out of the turnbuttons and table top. I think I will stay away from brass in the future 🙂
Cheers,
Riley
10 March 2017 at 11:46 pm #310029Fair enough. I will share some of the lessons I learned.
1.) Don’t laminate legs from thinner stock unless you absolutely have to. The boards I had to choose from were almost impossible to match. Th legs didn’t end up looking too great because of the grain mismatch. I remember Paul saying something to the effect that when one laminates legs, “it ends up looking like you didnt care”. In my case he was right. Next time I will buy 8/4 stock. One of my glue lines also ended up showing a gap several days after glue up. (See lesson two)
2.) Let your stock acclimate for as long as you can possibly stand it. I waited two weeks. I figured two weeks in Arizona heat and single digit humidity would do. I was wrong. After the legs were glued up and shaped; vertical checks opened up on one of the legs parallel to the laminate glue line and on the glue line itself. Luckily I was able to fill the defect with superglue and it turned out looking half way decent. Speaking of defects – see lesson three
3.) Your plane can never be sharp enough or set well enough. I cant count how many times I was planing and hearing the sweet “swish, swish” of a plane working properly…but on the next pass there was that terrible sound as the plane stopped dead in its track..leaving a grand canyon size divot in the middle of your freshly laminated table top.I definitely need work on plane setup and technique; and I will definitely be more picky about the boards I purchase. Beautiful, swirling grain is not a novice woodworkers friend.
4.) Last lesson. Joint freeze is real. And it sucks. It struck me on the second joint during glue up. I was not ready for it. The joint in question was very tight. Too tight it turns out. I actually broke a clamp trying to squeeze it together. When that failed I blindly beat the hell out of the joint with my chisel hammer and a block until it submitted.
So overall it was was a nightmare..I cant wait to do it again.
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