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22 August 2023 at 3:42 pm #811176
I am not sure it is even necessary but I would do like Paul Rowell said.
The glueing surface is great enough to keep the pieces together and if the shoulders have a good fit, they will care for the geometry of the assembly.
17 July 2023 at 8:20 am #807610I have had the same problem with a Silverline plane.
I also grounded the chip breaker.
Later I further diminished the distance between the yoke slot and the chipbreaber edge by accentuating the curve with a few hammer blow.18 February 2023 at 4:42 pm #791910to Orestis
If one intend to have an end vise like hereabove, it is recommended to use an alternate leg frame assembly on that side as shown at the end of this blog:
https://paulsellers.com/2012/06/making-the-workbench-7/8 February 2023 at 3:11 pm #790567The pictures show normal bevel down edges.
I fail to understand the concern.
Paul’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcuahhR-Weo14 January 2023 at 10:35 am #787213+1 what Colin said.
You will notice that there is no other way if you have to grind the iron of a skew rebate plane.
The goal is not to have a square iron but to have the cutting edge parallel to the sole.7 January 2023 at 3:02 pm #786087“I was just careful when I made the dados on the aprons and they were TIGHT!”
?!? One of the interesting features of the Paul Sellers workbench is the use of wedges. They can compensate the possible shrinking of the legs and avoid subsequent raking.
By the way, for the correct working of the wedges, the leg frame must be able to move a little bit (left-right). To allow for this, the hole in the leg frame for the carriage bolt must be a little bit larger then the bolt diameter.11 November 2022 at 1:32 pm #779922about the necessity of a flat workbench,
look at the video of Paul Sellers’ post:
“newest piece for 2022” dated 21 January 2022.
Obviously, Paul doesn’t rely on a flat workbench (most of the time).
Although he found it necessary to make picture frames:
read “flattening one of my benches” dated 14 august 2014.As for advices, the best ones are in Paul’s blogs.
There are “essential tools”, “nice to have” and “not at all useful” ones.
Have a look at his site https://commonwoodworking.com/ (login with the same name and password as here).25 August 2022 at 8:26 am #771621joints under thin veneer can finally crack the thin veneer (after so many years) due to wood movement.
The false front is a better option.31 July 2022 at 2:21 pm #7687571. “Looking round on tube it appears that planes that are not flat are a common problem,”
It is common; but, is it a problem?2. There is a post on Paul’s blog showing that a #4 plane can flex (so much for flatness).
3. Surfaces with a mirror finish tend to stick. I will never try to have a mirror finish. If I were obsessed with sole flatness, I would use a scraper (like it was done on old machine ways). That would create small pools for the oil of “te rag in the can”.
17 July 2022 at 11:24 am #767373I didn’t make a dovetail challenge but two kitchen herb garden shelves. 20 boxes in total = 80 dovetails.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.17 July 2022 at 11:14 am #767372On mine, I have had to whack on the adjusting screw to make it parallel with the iron. (left-right and fore-aft).
Where the turn button meets the iron, I also lightly filed the iron’s arrises with a small diamond file.
IMO the parallelism is the most important factor.9 July 2022 at 5:04 pm #766496Make the same thing as shown on the video and then turn the whole board/string assembly a quarter of a turn in such a way that the string is in front of the board.
That way if the string is sagging a little bit, it will not influence the measurement of the space between the board and the string.- This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Benoît Van Noten.
9 July 2022 at 8:55 am #766453I was going to point to the same video.
But with a comment.
For really long boards, one should use the method laterally (the string in front of the edge to be tested and not above it {turn first the board a quarter turn of course} ) in such a way that the string sagging (if any) doesn’t give false indication. -
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