| Blog series by FlyBoyJon | updated 109 days ago | 4 parts | 2367 reads | 3 comments total |
Part 1: Frame and Tensioning System
Okay, I started off going down to the shop around 08:30, did a bit of cleaning, organizing, and stowing away and somehow managed to recover 18 cubic feet of space! In a shop as small as mine, that is a huge deal. After clean up, I started working on the frame saw. The first discovery was that I actually had some 1 3/8 by 3/4 Douglas Fir stock in the back of my shop I had completely forgotten. This find eliminated my plan of building a plywood frame saw as I originally planned. I opted t...
Part 2: Brass Stock & Slack
Last weekend I had high hopes for this weekend. Well, for me the weekend continues through today, thank you instructor in-service. I didn’t get a chance to go over to my local purveyor of metals before Saturday so I had to wait until Monday. There seamed to be some confusion as the brass was priced like gold. Some nonsense about special order material didn’t qualify as a cut-off so rather than the $4/lb I expected it was $4.33/in, keep in mind this stock is 5/8 square, so the 2...
Part 3: Tensioning System - Test Block
Today was a good shop day. I managed to get several hours in all at one go. Things started of with filtering through some restoration/reconditioning project possibilities which will make there way to LJ in the near future, then I moved on to the tear down of the tensioning system currently not working on the frame saw, followed by some think time to design the new blade holder in steel. After I had something in mind and some dimensions written down on a very rough drawing, I cut out a ...
Part 4: Done! Sort of...
I went down to the shop first thing this morning after breakfast and started with a little straightening up and extending a power strip up one wall so I could plug in a couple of scoop lights. One of my frustrations yesterday was the shadows kept showing up just when I needed more light, not less. With the lights up and in place I layed out everything to get this blade holder done. One of the things that became clear yesterday was just how much the order of operations impacted the work flo...
