I try to sharpen frequently so that I don’t have a big couple of days getting everything sharp but sometimes it’s just time to clean house. I decided after 2 shop projects and a bunch of guitar building that it was time to do that house cleaning. First, I started with my hand planes. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hand Planes’
Doors almost done
Yesterday was a good day. I got to make lots of shavings. I always tell my wife when I’ve had a good day that “I got to cut wood”. Of course it sounds a bit juvenile but the fun I’m having doing woodworking lately is very kid like so I’m ok with that. I started [...]
Panel for doors
After my last post, I had a nice fail and didn’t correctly determine the length of the rails for the doors. The old adage of measure twice and mark once only works if you have decided the length of a particular item correctly. For this project, I’m not using a plan so my determination was [...]
Tongue and Groove for Doors
School is well under way for my 2 boys (Xander -12 and Mitchell -10). The beginning of the school year plays havoc with the entire families schedules and that of course means my shop time. I have gotten minutes in my shop since it began about 2 weeks ago. Today, I was able to resume [...]
New Old Tool
I’ve been married to my wonderful wife for 28 years. There are many wonderful things she does but one of the things she does that I get most excited about is her hair dressing appointments. Over the last few months, her hair dresser (Henry Clark) has been cleaning out old things and when he runs [...]
Groovin’
I’ve been gone for a bit. My oldest son, Xander, just started at a new school and part of the first week is a 3 day sleepover camp which I volunteered as a chaperone. It was a lot of fun and all the kids had a blast (of course, I got bit by so many [...]
Rail and Stiles
The panel glue up went well. Now it’s on to the Rails and Stiles for the door. As you can see, this is a very common door construction. Some details you can’t tell from that image include a groove on the interior of both the Stiles and the Rails. I have seen 2 common options [...]
Basic Glue up
A basic glue up is a skill every woodworker needs to master. The first step is to get the rough material to the rough size. For hand tool users, this means hand crosscuts and hand ripping. For power tool users, this means table saw work. The next step is to joint the edges to be [...]
Wall Hanging Tool Chest – The Back
Yesterday, I started on the back. First step was to rough size the pieces for the back (it wasn’t that rough). I cut to length and ripped to width the 4 pieces I was going to use for the back, all with hand saws. I followed this with squaring and straightening the edges and ends [...]
Guitar 4′s Neck
I’ve been sick for a few days so haven’t been to the shop. No worries though, it was just a cold. Today, I started working on Guitar 4′s neck. Starting a neck, you start with a simple blank and then trim off a small piece on one end at about a 15 degree angle. You [...]
Miter Plane
I have a shooting board for shooting cross cuts. I still need to make a shooting board for shooting long grain rip cuts. To this point, I have used either my jointer plane or my jack plane to do the shooting. This has worked find except for the fact that I have to adjust both [...]
New Year – Back to Work
After awhile off from all projects to enjoy Christmas time with my family, it’s time to get back to work. First, I finished glueing up guitar 4′s back on. Now you can see all guitars in progress. On the right, is guitar body 2 which is a cutaway and has some great figure to the [...]
Sides are done
The sides are done for both body 3 and body 4 guitars. You can see body 3 which is the orchestra sized body with no cut away and body 4 which is also an orchestra sized body but with a cutaway. The kerfing installed nicely and I did have more glue squeeze out (meaning I [...]
Top and Back
In recovering from my issues with this guitar build, I ordered some additional wood. In my first attempt, I let LMII service the top and back which meant that they joined the back and side book matched pieces together and did thickness the pieces. This time around, I wanted to do that work myself. It [...]
Top Glue Up and …
Today, I received some more wood for my guitar project. I think it has actually turned into 2 guitars. As you may remember, I had damaged the headstock on my first neck so I ordered another but also tried to fix the original neck and headstock. The new neck is great but the repair actually [...]
