626 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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For the image heavy version of this post, please click here.
At last, the day arrived when I could put it all together and complete the leg vise. Or so I thought. This post is actually a combination of a couple days work because I just couldn’t bring myself to post nothing but failure after failure until it was done.
With some helpful tips from Sylvain over at the Lumberjocks site, I was able to (almost) complete the task of getting that garter (that I thought was an unmitigated...
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539 days ago
by Mauricio |
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Welcome back folks. Progress has been slow but steady. I’m in the home stretch now.
I need to finish up this leg vise, then the lower shelf and I’ll be ready for final assembly.
A while back BrandonW gave me a Jatoba board. Its the same stuff I’m using on my deadman. Its beautiful dense wood and I’ve been milking every last scrap of it. I used the below scrap as my garter even though it is the checked end of the board. I ended up having to use a lot of superglue ...
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304 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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Good news bad news kind of day. Twice.
The first thing that hit me today was that the bare spot I had filed into the threads on the leg vise “screw” (really a 5/8” threaded rod from the Borg) for the first chop won’t work on v2 because the chop is twice as thick.
Soooo…half an hour of filing and I had this:
Then I started making the garter. First I measured out a 2.5” square of 1/2” oak. Then took it to the drill press and punched ...
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301 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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Finally wrapped this project up, after some setbacks.
To correct the angled chop I had to see what was the problem: the hole drilled in the chop or the hole drilled for the coupler buried in the leg?
First I tested the hole in the leg:
Clearly, the threaded rod exiting the leg is off of perpendicular. Then, before I attacked the solution, I decided to check the chop:
Huh. It’s off too! So, after some hand wringing, cussing, and a few beers, I took the case online ...
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