321 days ago
by Karson |
11 comments »
The Woodcraft Magazine Aug/Sept 2008 had a plan for a Shoulder Plane. Our woodworking club decided to make that item as a workshop. The workshop was held Jan 10-11, 2009.
We had 12 people take the class, the cost was $13.00 for the blade purchased from Woodcraft and $10.00 if you wanted the wood supplied by the instructor. The wood that he supplied was Tiger Maple with Madagascar Ebony sole.
Some Sapele was provided as glue strips for the planes.
My son David and I took our own ...
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655 days ago
by Eric |
16 comments »
Okay, so I’m in the market for a plane that will help me clean up my tenons and maybe do some other tricks too. I’ve narrowed it down to a Stanley #78 rabbet plane and one of those skinny wooden shoulder planes that are so common on eBay (in fact, I just saw one listed for $9.99 that ended with no bids).
It seems that these two planes do mostly the same kind of thing, and that they would both work for tenons and rabbet joints. Right? But the Stanley #78 has the bullnose feature...
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752 days ago
by Jojo |
13 comments »
The traditional woodworking tools in Japan all share a few common characteristics, the most important of which is its simplicity, followed very closely by its ability to perform a single dedicated task extremely well. This leads to an amazing variety of almost identical tools that do different things. This is best seen when you take a look at the shelves that store the ”kanna” in a reseller’s shop. I probably should have started saying that ”kanna” is the generic...
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176 days ago
by CedarFreakCarl |
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Once the mortises have been cut in the legs, it’s time to cut the tenons on the aprons. After cutting the apron stock to the correct length and measuring the depth of the mortise we’ll cut the shoulders of the tenon joint on the table saw. These aprons are 3/4” thick, therefore the tenon should be 1/4”. Using the Kreg miter gauge, I’ll carefully saw the shoulders. I should have used a zero clearance insert, but was too lazy to make another, so I just used the oe...
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