First I don’t borrow tools. I either buy or rent. I don’t generally lend either. Family are particularly difficult. It seems you are greedy if you don’t help family. I do have 2 neighbors I will lend...
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First I don’t borrow tools. I either buy or rent. I don’t generally lend either. Family are particularly difficult. It seems you are greedy if you don’t help family. I do have 2 neighbors I will lend...
I learned from finish carpenters. Two sided carborundum course and fine. Spit or sometimes oil. There were arguments about spit, Beechnut, Snuff or plain. Strop on your belt tail, carpenter coveralls...
On the woodworking bench I have a tail vise on the right a leg vise on the left and a gun makers vise usually in one of the dog holes somewhere along the bench. On my Noden bench I have a face vise...
Sometimes we do damage just by storage. If you have ever put a tool into its dedicated storage box and not have the lid close properly and just jammed it down you’ll know what I mean. Also if you...
I do own a small chuck for my mini mill for accuracy. If I need to do something like you described I just chuck a pin vice in the drill. Works fine.
Jim
I introduced my children and grand children to woodworking at about that age. Some a little younger. They took right to it. My process was like this. First get their interest by watching you start to...
Back in 2020 I did several posts about flattening and edge jointing using string lines, winding sticks, and other tools. The string line is the most important part of it. I believe they are titled...
I believe the term you are looking for is vial cover.
Jim
Try Engles Coach Shop. Builds rebuilds old wagons and wood wheels. Latest was building 10’ diameter wooden wheels for a log cart. He built the replicas of the Borax wagons for Death Valley.
Jim
There is a Marketing/woodworking guru who created a need made a product and sold it for 10 times the price. The infamous lump hammer is all you will ever need. 😎
Jim
Very nice work. The chest looks wonderful.
Jim
Table saw, jointer, miter saw, hand held belt sander, finish sander. Maybe one days work.
Jim
Keep in mind. If you are supplying air to your shop it has to have return air somehow. That means you are using that air for supply air to the whole house. You have to have a very good filter on your...
Nothing new to me. I basically use two sets of chisels. One is at 25* the other at 20*. I did have an adventure at 30* due to A2 but gave those chisels away. I learned at 25* and when I want to use...
My favorites are. Phil Lowe, Roy Underhill, George Wilson, and Jack Plane. All for the same reasons, relaxed do the task with few special tools using normal furniture maker skills. I like others also...
Pieces of rubber tubing or backer rod for caulking. Many sizes to pic from.
Jim
Ah, hickory it is than. Just think of all the fun you’ll have making matching chairs, carving all those seats and shaping all of the spindles.
Jim
Remember when everyone wanted a pool table in the basement. Many of them had you making masse shots on one side and one end. Don’t get yourself in that spot. I say 4’ minimum all around if you want...
Interesting conversation. No claims on expertise here just what I have learned over the years. Lay your arm flat on the bench point your finger straight. Raise your arm up until fist is flat at the...
Turn your wrist like you normally strike a blow. Put your fist flat on your bench. Grip a stick in the fist. Measure the length of handle you want on the stick. The angle you want can be measured...
That is a small block. The rope sizes to handle rigging guns and mooring on a sailing ship could be the smallest at 1” and the largest 8” to 10”. The opening in in chock is about double the rope size...
Just use them like a regular chisel when you register off the flat back. Regular gouge for convex work, in canal for concave work. Grooves for sheaves, grip surfaces for railing, anywhere where ropes...
Any motorized tool is just like the dog that doesn’t bite, no such thing exists. Over the years I’ve seen clothing, of all kinds, jewelry, hair, cords, various forms of paper, tools hit and thrown...
I agree with Jim Becker. Put it in the trash. Carbide will hairline fracture that you can not see. If it’s solid carbide you can turn it around glue it in a handle and use it for a burnisher other...
Turn the blade 180* on the arbor after marking carefully on the arbor flange the blade and the washer. Re-torq the nut to the same as it was when you last installed it. Re-check your measurements and...