I worked very hard and got the top flat and smooth along with square. This process really honed my hand plane skills which I’m pleased with (of course, all the work on maple means I need to sharpen the hand planes now). I decided to make my own wooden clips. Here is a shot [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sharpening’
Shop minutiae
As I go through this standing maple desk project, I am sawing, planing, and sanding. Soon, I will be drilling and chiseling too. As I plane this hard maple (I really got reminded how hard it was today when I needed to cut a small piece of plywood in modifying a jig), I’m getting a [...]
Lie-Nielsen Tool Event – Wrap 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 [...]
Off to Port Townsend
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 [...]
Shop Tour – Pictoral
I know, I know. Finally he shows his entire shop. Of course when you entire shop is less than 10′ x 16′ there isn’t much to show off. First, here is my main work bench. Someday, I may build my own from scratch but I wanted to get to work so I bought a bench [...]
Handcut Dovetail Hope Chest – Wrap Up
See my previous posts giving updates from my Handcut Dovetail Hope Chest from last week (I did 5 daily updates). This post is to give you some progress pictures and show you what happened. Here is Gary, the owner and teacher of our class at Northwest Woodworking Studio: Here are a series of shots that [...]
Quick Update: Dovetail chest – day 2
Today, I finished cutting the tail boards and started on the pins. This is easily the most frustrating part. Getting it to fit tight seems impossible to my current skill level. I get it to fit but the examples the instructor, Gary, does are impossibly tight. Also, he and his assistant have good eyes and [...]
Quick update: Dovetail Chest – Day 1
I just got back to the hotel. It’s after 5:30p and it’s over 100 degrees outside. The class is in an old, non-AC’d, warehouse. Did I mention it’s over 100 degrees outside? The class was great. Gary, owner/teacher of the Northwest Woodworking Studio, first started out with the notion that before you jump in and [...]
Grits – Where to start?
I’m still progressing on getting my hand planes tuned up. I’ve finished all my chisels (though I’d like to get a few mortise chisels at some point and will need to get those sharpened). I’m doing one plane at a time but I’ve discovered something that I guess I was taking for granted. In my [...]
