A Hobbiest thinking and working with wood by hand and with machines.
I’ve been practicing Mortise and Tenon joints for the past couple of days.
I’ve found some things out about hand cut Mortise and Tenon joints.
Shallow mortise/tenons are easier to keep square
Conversely, deep mortise/tenons are much harder to keep square
Deep mortise/tenons can be tuned a bit to make square after they are cut
Keeping the mortise inside the [...]
Having your hobby live on a tight budget, you have to save and buy up. This can take month and requires a great deal of patience. Well, my patience is paying off. I had saved up so that I could buy a few tools. One that I’m very excited about is a Lee Valley/Veritas Low [...]
As I mentioned in my last post regarding the Lie-Nielsen Tool Event, I was thinking about a dedicated hand plane for the shooting board.
I’m currently using my Lie-Nielsen Jointer Plane which is set up for medium planing work (versus rough/aggressive or smooth/fine work). This works though I’ve found that the plane should be set up [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, I headed up to Port Townsend. It turned out to be a 2 1/2 hour road trip (each way, including the required ferry ride) though I was able to catch up on a lot of podcasts during the ride so it wasn’t totally wasted.
It was a much smaller [...]
Today and Tomorrow Lie-Nielsen Toolworks is at Edensaw Woods in Port Townsend. They are supposed to be showing attendies how to use and tune our tools to make us better woodworkers.
I own a few Lie-Nielsen tools so I felt it was worth the long drive time (and a ferry ride too) to see what I [...]
OK, after my initial hick up. I’ve created 2 shooting boards. The first is a 90 degree shooting board. This is probably the one that I will need the most often. Notice the high fence and the runners that the hand planes can ride.
I also created one type of 45 degree miter shooting board. I [...]
OK, in my previous post on Shooting board, I said I was putting runners for the hand plane to ride against. That worked well.
My issue came when my plans called for me to lower the fence on the shooting board. The reason for this idea was to combine the notion of a bench hook with [...]
A shooting board is simple and I have 2 standard boards and 1 miter shooting board. In using them recently, I discovered that running the hand plane (I use my jointer plane) against the board and on my bench, mars up my bench severely. This is unacceptable as I don’t want to have to resurface [...]
