Reply To: Finally putting aside discouragement… A little workbench project help?
I feel your pain in regards to getting injured. Almost cut my index finger off. just above the middle joint, earlier this Summer. I was a little scared to get…
I feel your pain in regards to getting injured. Almost cut my index finger off. just above the middle joint, earlier this Summer. I was a little scared to get…
…that they need to be “scary sharp” not like I used to do and that was almost sharp. When a spoke shave is sharp they work very well. Good Luck….
…those moments, a particularly problematic portion of floor rears its ugly head, it can tip the scales in your ability to have optimal results. Also, sometimes you just get plain…
Yikes, that is quite a scar. Anyone else think it looks more like epoxy than a weld? And is that a big rust bloom on the sole? Anyways, for scrub…
Nothing is too big for joinery, at least at any reasonable scale this side of skyscrapers. The Japanese have made entire temples, which have stood for centuries, using nothing but…
…at the front let into the sole and glued with a reversible glue like hide glue. http://lumberjocks.com/Dcase/blog/27619 And a third method is to add a thin shim behind the iron…
…made from construction 2×12 that has been kicking around for a decade that has been used as temporary post & beam during some repairs, scaffold for painting stairs, and to…
…to the blade length you should rarely have to re-adjust if you sharpen consistently. Does anyone else agree? I’m no expert as I only sharpen to ‘sharp-enough’ not scary-shaving sharp….
…up precisely, because “grit” is an arbitrary designation. One company’s “grit” can be larger or smaller than another company’s “grit”. A micron, however, is the same size the world over….
…plastic caliper with a vernier scale to check parallelism of the two faces. My old thickness planer, long since sold away, wasn’t as accurate as I can be with handplanes….