15 days ago
by gizmodyne |
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Our next project in class tune a smoothing plane. We bought a No. 3 Stanley for Kristin at the Swap Meet and I bought a Stanley No. 4C on E-Bay.
My plane before tuning.
Step 1: Flatten Sole or pay a guy to do itThe sole of the plane before grinding.
We set up wet-dry paper on a granite plate and tested the soles.
Given the condition of our planes, we decided to take our teacher up on an offer to send the planes to his machinist friend who ground the soles and squared one cheek f...
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83 days ago
by MauBow |
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A few months ago I was helping my dad rearrange the chaos in his garage that we had just placed, shoved, and stacked his entire shop into after moving it from KS to Des Moines and rediscovered a heavy wooden box with hand cut dovetail joinery. I remembered it from loading the Uhaul back in KS too. I played strong man and lifted my grandfather, carpentry tool box by myself into the moving van. It was heavy, stout and showed signs of once being beautiful. I commented to my dad that it should be...
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268 days ago
by Blake |
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Lately I’ve really been getting into hand tools.
I asked for a few Japanese chisels for Christmas (one each from a few different people in the family.) I ended up with a set of four from Woodcraft. I decided that this collection was worthy of family heirloom status so I had them laser engraved and built a box to keep them in.
I have always had a fascination with Japanese culture, art and woodworking. Lately I have been reading Japanese Woodworking Tools, Their Tradition, Spir...
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291 days ago
by PurpLev |
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Let me start by saying that the first part of this blog although posted earlier today, was actually made about a year ago, I just posted it today as a preceding part to the one you’re reading now… tried not to double post and ‘push’ other’s from the blog front page, so I waited half a day between 2 posts, although both were made ready at the same time.
to continue the story were I left off, what I found most difficult with setting up the box was the box joints...
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485 days ago
by Chris |
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So, yesterday afternoon I started really working on the project. I had ~10BdFt of 8/4 White Oak on hand so I rough cut it to length on the table saw then started flattening the faces and jointing the edges. When it’s about 90 – 95 Degree’s(f) and 90% humidity it can make for quite a workout & weight loss program. I have the blanks for the aprons and legs ready to to re-saw on the Bandsaw. There is no way I would try that by hand with a rip saw; I’m not the twisted!...
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533 days ago
by bryano |
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Hi LumberJocks, Im back from the flee market with another bag of goodies. I’ll post the price I paid with each pic.
transition plane 5$, corner clamps 3$ each, buffing compound 1$ each.
dovetail saw 2$, chisel $.25
Two small block planes 2$ each, general brand scribe 3$, caliper $.25
the planes need a little cleaning but ive already used the block planes and they work well. Ill be back later with more finds.
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536 days ago
by Russel |
12 comments »
When I was a youngster in what they now refer to as “mid-century”, my father had a hand plane. I had no idea what kind and no idea what it was supposed to be used for, but I used it to shape my PineWood Derby car for my cub scouts race. (In case you’re wondering, I didn’t win, place or show. Just barely made it down the track.)
Until recently, that was my only experience with a hand plane. Since hanging about LumberJocks I’ve read all kinds of stuff about ...
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549 days ago
by bryano |
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Hi LJ,s Ive been finding alot of tools at the flee market and have been posting them in a forum. Im finding so much that I thought it would be better to start a blog series. my previous finds are
these next planes were for sale 10$ for all three.
these next planes were a steal as well, these I bought for total of 35$
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568 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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584 days ago
by MichaelW |
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I think the blog series will be in order from here forward. I haven’t had a lot of time to allocate to the workbench project lately, but was able to get the additional plane blades and sharpen and hone them. Much more pleasant to have a couple extras at hand and take nice shavings. It is such a great feeling to have a plane well tuned and work a piece of wood.
visible above is a shot of the planing beam as I finished up one side. I have a combination square resting on it and got ...
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