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…The issue was about 10% minor frog adjustment and 90% blade wasn’t being sharpened properly. I don’t have a honing jig, although one is on the way from Lee Valley,…
…The issue was about 10% minor frog adjustment and 90% blade wasn’t being sharpened properly. I don’t have a honing jig, although one is on the way from Lee Valley,…
Nearly done, brackets fabricated out of one of those metal bars you screw to a door frame for reinforcement. Punched, drilled to 2mm, then 4mm, then 5mm, then countersunk. When…
…to get similarity in colour as tas blackwood isn’t consistantly dark like walnut. Pencil ceder also causes respiratory issues so I suppose your right ceder in general is a problem….
The last element of the stepladder is the top lock down lattice. Once the mortises and tenons have been cut, it can be glued up. The horns are cut off…
…the chisel in the router can plane at that depth, less force go’s through the chisel. So the question is, ” how do you make a rebate (without using machinery)”?….
…quickly. So, I have a thickness planer and recently acquired a 6″ jointer from my father-in-law, that came attached to a 1940’s delta milwaukee table saw and also a router…
…each pass, at the most. You can’t bash away at the waste wood. You have to coax it out. Sound is another thing that will help. You should never hear…
…matter. You’ll get good practice without the requirement of extremely tight tolerances, you won’t be risking expensive exotic lumber (unless you want to), etc, etc, and you’ll still end up…
…no more than .015 or .020 in order to keep it from cutting too deep. It takes a while to get use to using a spokeshave ,but it is well…
So here is another picture of the glued and finished ladder. I put on three layers of lemon shellac and finally smoothed it with steel wool.