832 days ago
by NBeener |
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How does a dog get the LAST bit of water out of his bowl ?
With a half-lap :-)
Spent too much time figuring out how to get Hurricane Walter to spew less dust, or—at least—how I could capture the dust he spews.
Shroud seemed like the way to go.
So …. with leftover plywood from the construction of the ol’ ChupaCaja, I made me a dust collection box.
ID is about 8” wide x 8” deep x 8” tall.
The joinery is (IS it called this ?) half-lap (...
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750 days ago
by Div |
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Body done, wedge done, plane iron done. If you are anything like me, eagerness to see some shavings has replaced all other desires at this stage! With a bit of luck, paper thin shavings will be curling out of the mouth. Isn’t it great! If not, don’t despair….
LET’S FINE TUNE:
1. True the plane sole. This is done with the blade in place but well away from the mouth and the wedge set up tightly as it would be in use. Why? With the wedge set, our plane is in “tension”. The wood actuall...
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332 days ago
by Brad |
13 comments »
“Does it run?”, I asked the goatee-wearing college kid working the estate sale. “I don’t know, let’s plug it in and see.” So we did. And it ran. But it made a loud rumbling sound. “Could be the bearings,” goatee-boy said. “How much you asking for it?” “Make me an offer.” “25 bucks work for you?” “Sold,” says he.
So I borrowed a dolly, backed up my Mini Cooper to the garage—you’d be surpris...
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134 days ago
by Don W |
10 comments »
I brought this magnificent (note the dripping sarcasm) piece of machinery home with me during one of my flea market outings. This is a late model Stanley #4. Its painted Blue, made in the US, has a painted cap, a shorter iron than vintage, and no toe on the tote. The knob and tote is painted black, it has an aluminum frog and a pretty cheezy lateral adjuster.
Now….why anyone but someone with a sickness for hand planes like me would buy this plane is a little beyond my understanding, ...
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970 days ago
by David Craig |
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I have ordered 3 planes, so far, that were used. Of those three, only one didn’t arrive with the iron almost fully extended. I don’t see planes at garage sales any more, but when I did, I noticed the same thing. While the blade extension might seem like the obvious problem, one of the real underlying issues here is that the cap iron is not set right. The cap iron is another item on the plane that I think is overlooked, yet is an essential piece to successful plane operation.
Of...
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1586 days ago
by PurpLev |
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Mine was about 7 years ago, I still wasn’t doing anything woodworking like, and we had moved to a new apartment where the bathroom door wouldn’t close since it was too tall and would hit the jamb (well- actually we mounted one of those over-the-door-hanger thingies which made things that way) so, my wife suggested we get a handplane to fit the door to the (now lower) opening.
I have never worked with a handplane before , and the closest thing I’ve ever held in my hand was...
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1655 days ago
by slooper |
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You know, it may seem like common sense to recalibrate your table saw every once in a while. But for the life of me I can’t figure out why I have not done so to mine over its five years of use! I think I just hoped it’d maintain that wonderful precision that I gave it the day I put it together. Maybe that’s why I put it off. I don’t know. I mean, I spent a lot of time on it so that it’d cut perfectly. And its metal! It’s not like it expands and contracts li...
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2059 days ago
by Dekker |
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Well, over the weekend, I was only able to do limited work on my boxes. You see, I discovered the reason for my “clamping issues” on my lever-action boxes… My miter saw is out of adjustment! My 45’ angles were NOT 45’!
So I took a 2×4, jointed it then planed it, then spent the next hour chopping the h311 out of it, adjusting the blade after every chop, until it was giving me perfectly accurate 45’ angles. I also adjusted it for 90’ angles.
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1758 days ago
by David A. P. |
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I have my own blog, and before I discovered the excellence that is Lumberjocks, I started posting my woodworking adventures there. Fortunately, I only got one post up there before I signed up at LJ. However, I’m going to leave that post where it is, so I figured I’d drop a pointer to it here: Jumping Right In. Maybe not the ideal solution, but c’est la vie .
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