252 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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I got back to work shaping the chop for my leg vise today. I have had one too many instances of thinking, “mam, this would be a lot easier if I had that vise done…” on various projects in the last fee weeks. Right! Time to get to work!
I spent about 45 minutes paring away the side today trying to match the bevel and shap of the first side I did a while ago.
I think it came out pretty good…
And here it is ...
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1577 days ago
by frank |
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Awakened In Your Gobi
....it seems as if i am teller of tales that bears your beauty forth,why am i so woodly anomic when all your warmth of hue surrounds me,culler of the art that comes from hand-tooling your existence of being,while faith-fully noted are the cracks of character that provide story….
....planed from the start by gouges that wrought some sense of stability,your spoken desire was what soon caught the attention of my ears,and what if my hands started breathing wi...
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196 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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More progress on Jim’s light plates has occurred lately. Here’s the update:
I took the piece of siding that he gave me and measured out where the crests and valleys were on the back of the wood and went to town with chisels and Kröktskaft. Boy, aspen sure does pare nice and smooth with little effort (well, sharp tools help too):
In short order I had carved out a nice groove on each piece that fit perfectly onto the siding:
With the exception of the fact that my plan ha...
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246 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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Continuing work on the Telrad base was easy—-cloudy nights=busy days.
I added a wedge to the front of the Telrad base to make it more secure when attached, shaped the whole thing and made some nice edges. I think this is just going to be an experiment in getting it done—-if I like how it handles in the field, I may make it out of oak or something more stable and solid than pine (this was all pieces of 2×4 cutoff).
I h...
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887 days ago
by Mark Shymanski |
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I used to hate students like me who know when the course starts but still show up late, mea culpa. I was 15 minutes late again today as I had to go into Winnipeg for my uncle’s funeral today. Usually we can drive in and out in good time but today the roads were terrible, with semis, pickups and cars littering the ditches along the Trans Canada… anyway we got there and back safely although at one point I thought I was going to have to attend a smash up on a bridge, but fortunatel...
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1620 days ago
by frank |
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Occulation of the Wood
....what is this shadow that transverses your mind, when you look at wood?
One table top of rock maple that I am presently working on and hope to have done by the end of March. Many of the details as to how and what I am going after have not yet been fully worked out//worked in, but that’s only a matter of time as I listen to what the wood would say to me.
....and….
Things not known at this point:
1.)—no-name….
2.)&#...
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293 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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Very excited today because I got a lot accomplished! I ended with a dry fit of the entire bench and started work on the leg vise.
To get started, I finished sawing the bridle joint on the last leg…best cuts to date!
Straight as an arrow!When the last legs were cut, I grabbed the rubber mallet and chisels and hacked out the joints in about 10 minutes. So much faster than before!
Sharp chisels are a joy to wor...
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240 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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I made some good progress for the 20 minutes I had to work on the bench today.
I used the utility knife to chamber the edges of the two locking nut/wood discs I fabricated, then polished off the wood with 220 grit sandpaper for a nice smooth finish that didn’t end up overly round.
I also got out the 3/8” paddle bit and started to hog out the slot for the support guide at the bottom of the leg vise. I ran out of time to...
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299 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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(Only one picture for this short update today so I decided to post it here too!)
Nothing special today, just more working on chopping mortises and 3 more tenons…lots of sawing. Lots. But I have to say I’m seeing a little improvement in my abilities to feel when the wood is telling me I’m going to fast or off angle on the saw strokes. It’s getting easier to saw too—-I’m not putting near as much pressure as I did on the first cut of this project. It f...
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2247 days ago
by frank |
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Singing Mallets
....and so tis in this the moment of my arising, that the spewing forth of motley coloratura comes weaving heavens rhyme, where i am justified a vision quest of inseeing sensationalizing, that comes to me bearing up beyond my scope of cosmic time….
And so I thought that today I would post a couple of photos of some of the mallets that I have made. These are some that I now use and they, like the ones before them, will in likewise manner be retired with new ones to ...
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