457 days ago
by Eric |
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A few weeks ago I shared about my problems resawing with a handsaw. Several people suggested various jigs, and more than one told me just to go buy a circular saw.
Well, I decided to try to give myself a nice long straight edge to guide the saw. Ended up getting more and more complex, until this is what I ended up with:
In the end, it didn’t do that great of a job. So I put off doing this until the day before I had to pack up all my tools. I figured it was now or never, so I j...
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490 days ago
by Eric |
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I know, I know. Juvenile title. I can’t help it.
So it’s time for the wedges. By the way, I followed Ian Kirby’s technique as described in Woodworkers Journal (October 2007) and in a bit less detail on this website. First, to cut the kerfs in the tenon. Kerfs should be less than 1/4” from the edge of the tenon, and should stop about 1/8” from the shoulder. Likewise, when you open the mortise so it angles out, the opening should begin 1/8” in from the ins...
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493 days ago
by Eric |
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After I posted about doing my first hand-cut mortise and tenon, Scott wanted to see how I chopped my mortise. He said, “The only time I tried to chop a mortice I left most of a 1/4” chisel broken off in the wood.” Well, when I read that, I kind of freaked out because I hadn’t considered that I could have broken my blade! But I decided to trust in what I was taught, and to remember that I had, indeed, done one successfully. So I decided to keep at it for my second mortise.
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528 days ago
by Al Navas |
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For the hand tool users: If you have any suggestions on how I could improve my chisel technique to chop the mortises, please let me know ;-) – THANKS!
From my blog post:
In this episode I show how I did the layout and chopped the mortises for the knife hinges in the doors, and in the carcase. Then, for the first time, I do a dry fit of the frame and panel doors to the carcase.
The knife hinges provide an elegant solution in this cabinet, because they are unobtrusive; they remai...
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532 days ago
by Blake |
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Time for the Mortise and tenons.
First of all, thanks to all who gave me advice about the mortising machine from the last blog. I did hone and tune the chisel and mortise machine and it did cut considerably better. I also turned the chisel so that the open side faces the previously bored section and didn’t have any trouble with chips getting stuck (thanks Betsy!)
So I made the layout lines on my legs:
And cut the mortises. Notice the stop block for repeatability:
I w...
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533 days ago
by Blake |
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I have had this little Delta Mortiser for about a year and have never used it. So I am exited to finally give it a workout. I learned a lot.
Preparation:
I put a lot of time into laying out the joinery. I’ve never done this before. Here are some of the sketches I made including a printout of my sketchup drawing and a birds-eye view sketch of the joinery.
Vertical measurement sketch:
When I had worked out the details I drew it out on a scrap cut from one of the legs:
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534 days ago
by PurpLev |
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So for a very long time I have been planning to build my daughter a bed.
I have been reading anything I could get about bed construction (I really liked “Anatomy of a Bed” from Fine Woodworking), checking out different beds for design concepts, and construction methods, and have been mentally practicing building it for the longest time.
so I finally came up with the following design. frame is all Maple, joinery is Mortise & Tenon and headboard/footboard panels are planne...
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569 days ago
by MichaelW |
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I am dedicating this installment to GaryK’s comment from a previous entry. Gary this picture is for you:
In addition to these three bags of shavings, there were a several more that either were added to the compost or made spectacular fireplace starter on some recent colder rainy nights.
The three planes pictured below were my workhorses, the scrub in the top most position, no. 5 in the middle, and smooth at the bottom. In the course of all this planing, I am finding the ergo...
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590 days ago
by SPalm |
12 comments »
OK, I had 8 rather large mortises to cut for the feet and top of the trestles for a new workbench and thought my little tool would come in handy. It did a handsome job, so I thought I would share. I also did my first video, just the camera on a tripod, 5 minutes of routing. Boring unless you like this sort of thing.
I thought this would be a good time to explain some of the things that need to be decided, even for something this simple. Unlike hand routing, you actually have to...
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661 days ago
by Mike Lingenfelter |
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I had a few hours to work in the shop before the Super Bowl started. I was able to hog out all of the mortises. The router and drill press combination worked out really nice.
I had time to clean out the mortises in two of legs and fit one of the small stretches into the mortises.
So far the fit is working out pretty well. I still have a little more tweaking to do on some of the shoulders, but over all not too bad.
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