William Lohr
01-24-2011, 10:45 AM
Hello all...
This is my first post, but I have been lurking and learning for some time now. My many thanks to all of you who never knew you were teaching me while you posted.
By way of introduction and background, my brother was a cabinetmaker in Morgantown, WVa and I caught the bug from him. I started making Krenov planes at a course with David Finck, and then stepped up to the Clark & Williams course at Kelly Mehlers school. But I am not a total glutton for punishment; I have a nice selection of Norm-ware as well. I have crammed my garage with toys to point of critical mass. :) Some built-ins here, some bent laminations there, a box or two as gifts, the occasional walking staff for boy scouts, and a homebuilt pine workbench ala Popular Woodworking. Two steps forward, and a few back.
So... now to the post... I had been making alot of sawdust recently working on duplicating one of the toolboxes in Jim Tolpin's book on the same topic... the one with the coopered lid and buffalo nickel pulls. So, I'd learned to use Sketchup well enough to produce drawings, which was a first. I re-sawed and edge-glued my pieces to get the walls and bottom. Used my nifty new Grizzly table saw to get uniformity of width without having to bang the heel of my hand on the fence any longer, also a first. I borrowed by brother's Leigh jig for some of the dovetails, all the while working up the skills with my handsaw. All was going along splendidly.
That was about three weeks ago. As with all things, life and work put me on hold, but glue up was to be this past weekend. I even bought two extra clamps to be sure I had enough on hand.
My pieces shrank (with the recent winter arctic snap and drop in humidity) by about 1/8" - 3/16". A little cupping too. I just didnt think the movement would be so severe. And a cry went up in Frederick, MD, heard 'round the world. :)
The best laid plans of mice and woodworkers.... live and learn.
So I am trying to re-humidify them in hopes of reclaiming the work time.
Oh, how I long for the day when the shop is heated and humidified year round. I commiserated with my pal Evan Williams the rest of the weekend. :)
Be well, all. If I am lucky and proud, I will someday post photos.
William
This is my first post, but I have been lurking and learning for some time now. My many thanks to all of you who never knew you were teaching me while you posted.
By way of introduction and background, my brother was a cabinetmaker in Morgantown, WVa and I caught the bug from him. I started making Krenov planes at a course with David Finck, and then stepped up to the Clark & Williams course at Kelly Mehlers school. But I am not a total glutton for punishment; I have a nice selection of Norm-ware as well. I have crammed my garage with toys to point of critical mass. :) Some built-ins here, some bent laminations there, a box or two as gifts, the occasional walking staff for boy scouts, and a homebuilt pine workbench ala Popular Woodworking. Two steps forward, and a few back.
So... now to the post... I had been making alot of sawdust recently working on duplicating one of the toolboxes in Jim Tolpin's book on the same topic... the one with the coopered lid and buffalo nickel pulls. So, I'd learned to use Sketchup well enough to produce drawings, which was a first. I re-sawed and edge-glued my pieces to get the walls and bottom. Used my nifty new Grizzly table saw to get uniformity of width without having to bang the heel of my hand on the fence any longer, also a first. I borrowed by brother's Leigh jig for some of the dovetails, all the while working up the skills with my handsaw. All was going along splendidly.
That was about three weeks ago. As with all things, life and work put me on hold, but glue up was to be this past weekend. I even bought two extra clamps to be sure I had enough on hand.
My pieces shrank (with the recent winter arctic snap and drop in humidity) by about 1/8" - 3/16". A little cupping too. I just didnt think the movement would be so severe. And a cry went up in Frederick, MD, heard 'round the world. :)
The best laid plans of mice and woodworkers.... live and learn.
So I am trying to re-humidify them in hopes of reclaiming the work time.
Oh, how I long for the day when the shop is heated and humidified year round. I commiserated with my pal Evan Williams the rest of the weekend. :)
Be well, all. If I am lucky and proud, I will someday post photos.
William