Post a picture of work made using Hand Tools.

[Brian Holcombe]

I propose a thread, unlike any other, in which we post recent work, be it furniture or musical instruments, timber frame, general carpentry, test joints, stone boxes, handles....anything made of wood done with a process in which hand tools took a major part.

I would like the spirit of this thread to be a fun spirit.

I'm doing a restoration at the moment.

https://brianholcombewoodworkerblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/img_5323.jpg

[Normand Leblanc]

About a year ago I've made a large cutting board all with hand tools. Let me tell you that only a retired person (or someone with lot of free time) can do something like that because it takes a large amount of time. I've made one but it's the last one.

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[Oskar Sedell]

good idea for a thread Brian. Looking forward to lots of inspirational pics. Here's one of my last projects. Applewood Jack plane. Handtools only.

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[Thomas Schneider]

This cherry, Shaker-inspired desk, started out as 2 1/4" x 10" x 8' rough cut stock. From the ripping and dimensioning to the joinery and raised panels, all done with hand tools.

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Unfortunately, a hand injury has sidelined progress.

Tom.

[steven c newman]

Perhaps a hand tool made box, to hold a hand tool?
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And use that tool to help build it.
Stanley #45
Woodwas "project wood" from Blue BORG.
Finger/box joints with just a chisel and a saw
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45 to mill opposing grooves, to split the top from the case...
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So the grain would match. Grooves for a bottom panel, rebate for the top panel, match cutter for the tongues on the panels. Has two narrow dados to hold the cutters in the box..
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done with a saw and a chisel. Thin panels are slid into these( no glue) and all the cutters get stowed away.
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The goal here, was to match the OEM box that was beyond repairing....
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Came close...

[Phil Mueller]

Recent hall table. The only power used was to resaw the top.

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...and first small box attempt...all hand tools.

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[Matt Knights]

So this is a side table I made in the summer for my living room, from rough boards to finished table all by hand.

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And my saw till again all handmade even resawed the stock for the drawer sides

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Matt

[Roy Lindberry]

One of my favorites is a jewelry box made for a friend from some quilted maple and koa left over at her dad's sawmill.

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I posted this recently, but here is a reading table I did in cherry:

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And here is my first hand tool project, though the turning was done on a powered lathe:

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[Roy Lindberry]

good idea for a thread Brian. Looking forward to lots of inspirational pics. Here's one of my last projects. Applewood Jack plane. Handtools only.

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I love that Oskar! Is that laminated or a solid piece?

[Roy Lindberry]

Recent hall table. The only power used was to resaw the top.

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...and first small box attempt...all hand tools.

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What is the wood on the top of the hall table? It is gorgeous.

[James Pallas]

Here is a set of crab mallets and box made for a friend and another box I made to experiment with full blind dovetails. I did the first resaw so with a ryoba but then went to the bandsaw on the mallet box.
Jim

[Phil Mueller]

Thanks Roy, it's Koa. My neighbor had it laying around in his garage for about 10 years. He gave it to me, and I returned it to him in the form of a table.

[Steve Voigt]

Good idea, Brian. I really like the phrasing you used, "hand tools play a major part." I rough my planes out with table saw, band saw,and drill press, but everything else is hand tools, especially all finished surfaces.

Anyway, Here are a couple 1 3/4" (iron width) planes I made recently, a 50° smoother and a 40° miter plane.

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Detail of the smoother heel.

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Smoother on some tiger maple.

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Miter plane shooting some end grain.

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[Kees Heiden]

How recent should it be? At my usual snail's pace I have to look back a little further then most ;-)

Lat winter I finished this set of handplanes. Indeed, mostly handtool work.

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Before that it was a little cabinet, inspired on 17th century stuff.

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And at the moment I am working on a larger companion to that cabinet. They are both for the bathroom. I just finished the backside last week, so I still have some work to do...

[Oskar Sedell]

I love that Oskar! Is that laminated or a solid piece?

Thanks Roy. It's mortised out of a solid piece.

[Rob Luter]

All hand tools, and it shows :o

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3727/11154546205_f54390793c_c.jpg
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3808/11154599364_43443e4bc3_c.jpg
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5486/11154548885_5061b7815b_c.jpg

[george wilson]

All my tinker toy projects I have listed here were made CON MANOS !!:) Even much of the metal ones. I can't machine out a flintlock lock. They are all curved work,filed out.

Somehow my "manage attachments" is not working. I can't get some pictures to post properly.

You guys are showing some real nice work. I'd love to have that applewood plane!! I love applewood!!:)

[Brian Holcombe]

Beautiful work gents! Glad to see this thread growing some legs! Keep it coming. :D

[David Eisenhauer]

This little bench sings to me. What kind of wood? I was given some wood very similar to this many years ago and was told it was either beech or birch (can't remember) from Tennessee. I am not familiar with either and have always wondered. Stuff like the bench are what I like - functional, simple but with refined/useful construction details.

[Derek Cohen]

Stunning George! Your work always takes my breath away. I'd not seem those pieces before.

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Derek Cohen]

Sometimes I rough out with machines, and sometimes I do not. But once that is done, all it just handwork.

I post these only because others have, but they have been seen too often as part of an on-line builds to be interesting any longer.

Bridle plough plane (one of many planes) ...

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/BridlePloughBuild_html_m4eb20c71.jpg

Last three pieces of furniture ...

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/Kist_html_m143e34e7.jpg

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/WeavingSeatCompletingTheChair_html_m4441928f.jpg

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/TheDevilLiesInTheDetails_html_389e5575.jpg

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Mike Brady]

Just finished this cabinet from Michael Pekovich article in FWW. I chose cherry instead of the oak he used. All joinery is by hand on the case and the door. All hand-planed and scraped. His theme for the design is "shadow lines" formed by slight offsetting all joints by about a 16th inch so that there is a feeling of depth even in a small piece like this one.
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/finefettle/IMG_0591_zpsf9wflewc.jpg (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/finefettle/media/IMG_0591_zpsf9wflewc.jpg.html)http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/finefettle/IMG_0589_zpswp5uqjy1.jpg (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/finefettle/media/IMG_0589_zpswp5uqjy1.jpg.html)http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/finefettle/IMG_0590_zpsr37ni8ot.jpg (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/finefettle/media/IMG_0590_zpsr37ni8ot.jpg.html)

[Derek Cohen]

Very nice, Mike.

Regards from Perth

Derek

[lowell holmes]

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There are 32 mortise and tenon joints in this chair that were chopped by hand. A bandsaw was used on the rockers.

[Oskar Sedell]

You guys are showing some real nice work. I'd love to have that applewood plane!! I love applewood!!:)

Indeed lots of fine builds. Thanks for the kind words George.

[James Pallas]

Lots of talent here. I would like to be as connected as George. It is nice to see someone whose mind can control their hands and eyes to do what it wants. This does not mean to take away anything from others here. I must have some loose connections along those lines. My mind can see it but the hands and eyes won't cooperate:)
Jim

[James Waldron]

Neat thread. Great pieces showing up from everyone.

My most recent shop tool: coffin smoother, Hock double blade, laminated cherry body with ipe boxed sole, 55 degree bed.

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Works very well. Used bandsaw to resaw ipe. (Tried it once with a handsaw; took two long, tiring days.)

[ryan carlino]

I just finished a walnut dresser for one of the kids. The milling was a mix of power and hand tools. The long cuts were done on the table saw and the easy ones with a hand saw/shooting board. Most of the joinery was by hand which included lots of dovetails on case and drawers, plus some M&T for the base. I wasn't ready for the long dadoes yet. The drawer bottoms are held in by slips.

The pulls are walnut glued to aspen from a tree in our yard.

[Rob Luter]

This little bench sings to me. What kind of wood? I was given some wood very similar to this many years ago and was told it was either beech or birch (can't remember) from Tennessee. I am not familiar with either and have always wondered. Stuff like the bench are what I like - functional, simple but with refined/useful construction details.

It's some spalted maple I sourced locally. It's actually a step stool I made for a vertically challenged relative.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3727/11154546205_f54390793c_c.jpg

[lowell holmes]

Ryan,
That is nice crisp work on the dresser.
I'm impressed.

[Mike Brady]

You mean four pieces of furniture,​ Derek. That plane surely qualifies.

[Jeff Heath]

I made my newest workbench a couple years back entirely from handtools, with the exception that I milled the trees with my Woodmizer sawmill, which is definitely a power tool. I think I filled up a couple of garbage cans of plane shavings. I made the bench completely from my stack of "reject" boards that had been passed over for other projects due to checks, knotholes, etc..... I tried my best to bury most of the knotholes in the center of the bench, but a few were at the surface after planing. It's 5" thick, 96" X 24", and has Benchcrafted vise hardware......which I absolutely love.

Here's some pics:

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab57/hawkfan9/workbench/Rouboworkbenchfront.jpg

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab57/hawkfan9/workbench/wagonvise.jpg

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab57/hawkfan9/workbench/benchtop1.jpg

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab57/hawkfan9/workbench/workbench2.jpg

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab57/hawkfan9/workbench/IMAG0327_zps44f91f1c.jpg

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab57/hawkfan9/workbench/Bracedogholes-1.jpg

A lot of work and time this way, but very satisfying in the end. I think I'll use my 30" planer to even up the top next time before finishing it with smoothing planes. That took forevvvvvvvvvverrrrrrr.

It's made of a hard maple top, cherry end cap and legs (5" X 3.5"), and soft maple rails for the bottom shelf (not shown in these pics.) Bottom shelf made recently from tongue and groove knotty pine.

[Mike Allen1010]

All hand tools, and it shows :o

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3727/11154546205_f54390793c_c.jpg
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3808/11154599364_43443e4bc3_c.jpg
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5486/11154548885_5061b7815b_c.jpg

Rob, thanks for sharing the pics of your bench/step.


I love the exposed joinery – through, wedged tennons and ebony (?) pegged lap joints are awesome in my book!


I also like the design; great for showing off some dramatic wood, incorporating curves, all with overall scope/scale that shouldn't take forever. I appreciate your inspiration – I am absolutely gonna steal your idea and build one of these!


Cheers, Mike

[Mike Allen1010]

Sometimes I rough out with machines, and sometimes I do not. But once that is done, all it just handwork.

I post these only because others have, but they have been seen too often as part of an on-line builds to be interesting any longer.

.

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/BridlePloughBuild_html_m4eb20c71.jpg

Last three pieces of furniture ...

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/Kist_html_m143e34e7.jpg

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/WeavingSeatCompletingTheChair_html_m4441928f.jpg

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/TheDevilLiesInTheDetails_html_389e5575.jpg

Regards from Perth

Derek

Derek,


As much as I admire your typical humility, your suggestion that the 3 examples of your work you included above "have been seen too often as part of online builds as to be interesting no longer", made me laugh so hard (in admiration) that I I spit what I consider to be really good whiskey, all over the desk!


I'm just going to come right out with it:: as my 22 and 25 year old Boys would say, "Dude, you've got mad skills!".


Speaking only for myself, your bridle plow plane with the highly figured body, brass fittings and contrasting wedge/guide rods (not to mention your multimedia chair and blanket chest projects), are all fantastic, beautiful projects I couldn't approach on my best day. I'm personally grateful for all your posts and I hope you keep them coming!


Best, Mike

[Andrew Hughes]

I still do some handtool work but mostly carvings.I like my machines too much to not use them.Heres some pics i have only because my wife took them.
A Santa clause in walnut and mermaid letter opener in ebony.
I hope these qualify.

[Rob Luter]

Rob, thanks for sharing the pics of your bench/step.


I love the exposed joinery – through, wedged tennons and ebony (?) pegged lap joints are awesome in my book!


I also like the design; great for showing off some dramatic wood, incorporating curves, all with overall scope/scale that shouldn't take forever. I appreciate your inspiration – I am absolutely gonna steal your idea and build one of these!


Cheers, Mike

Thanks Mike -

i have to to give credit where credit is due.... this is inspired by a Chris Becksvoort piece that was shown in Fine Woodworking. I made some small changes such as adding the trestle to add some strength. It's all wood with no mechanical fasteners and the only glue is a drop or so on the wedges and pegs. I'm a big fan of exposed joinery, wedged tenons and other old time means to lock things tight. The pegs and wedges are black walnut.

- Rob

[Mike Allen1010]

[QUOTE=Phil Mueller;2630345]Recent hall table. The only power used was to resaw the top.

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Phil,


Thanks so much for sharing pics of your Hall table.


I love the combination of the "athletic" feel of your design and the undeniably organically gorgeous figure/look of the Koa tabletop.


FWIW, I think you absolutely nailed two ofI what IMHO are the most important dimensions ofbuilding something exceptional. Thanks again for sharing! You should be justifiably proud.


All the best, Mike

[Mike Allen1010]

Just finished this cabinet from Michael Pekovich article in FWW. I chose cherry instead of the oak he used. All joinery is by hand on the case and the door. All hand-planed and scraped. His theme for the design is "shadow lines" formed by slight offsetting all joints by about a 16th inch so that there is a feeling of depth even in a small piece like this one.
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/finefettle/IMG_0591_zpsf9wflewc.jpg (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/finefettle/media/IMG_0591_zpsf9wflewc.jpg.html)http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/finefettle/IMG_0589_zpswp5uqjy1.jpg (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/finefettle/media/IMG_0589_zpswp5uqjy1.jpg.html)http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/finefettle/IMG_0590_zpsr37ni8ot.jpg (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/finefettle/media/IMG_0590_zpsr37ni8ot.jpg.html)


Michael, thanks for sharing !


IMHO, your execution is exceptional (as is the talent necessary to make that possible) – congratulations! The exacting tolerances for the reveal of the inset cabinet door and drawer are super impressive, as are the fit of the exposed, chamfered through tennons and dovetails!


Michael, I think you've been holding out on your fellow Creekers – I hope we get to see lots more of your work in the future.


All the best, Mike

[Rob Luter]

Just finished this cabinet from Michael Pekovich article in FWW. I chose cherry instead of the oak he used. All joinery is by hand on the case and the door. All hand-planed and scraped. His theme for the design is "shadow lines" formed by slight offsetting all joints by about a 16th inch so that there is a feeling of depth even in a small piece like this one.
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/finefettle/IMG_0591_zpsf9wflewc.jpg (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/finefettle/media/IMG_0591_zpsf9wflewc.jpg.html)http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/finefettle/IMG_0589_zpswp5uqjy1.jpg (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/finefettle/media/IMG_0589_zpswp5uqjy1.jpg.html)http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/finefettle/IMG_0590_zpsr37ni8ot.jpg (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/finefettle/media/IMG_0590_zpsr37ni8ot.jpg.html)

To quote a phrase from a younger crowd, this is way cool. I love the shadow lines.

[Mike Allen1010]

I still do some handtool work but mostly carvings.I like my machines too much to not use them.Heres some pics i have only because my wife took them.
A Santa clause in walnut and mermaid letter opener in ebony.
I hope these qualify.



Andrew my friend, lucky for us, your lovely Bride had the foresight to take some pictures of your work!


I'm just gonna say - the Walnut Santa Claus (including the seasonally appropriate curving shoe tops!) and the ebony, mermaid letter opener are both awesome! Seriously, who doesn't want a handmade, mermaid shaped object?


As someone with a little time in grade in the USN (albeit way back when); mermaids hold an exalted place in seafaring mythology. In the spirit of Frogmen everywhere, I say "we need more mermaids!" I hope the spirit moves you to help everyone out!

I always look forward to you're posts/pics. Looking me up next time you're in town.

Cheers, Mike,


"The only easy day was yesterday"

[Thomas Schneider]

Hi Andrew, I love the Santa! Is there going to be something in his hand?

[Thomas Schneider]

"Derek,


As much as I admire your typical humility, your suggestion that the 3 examples of your work you included above "have been seen too often as part of online builds as to be interesting no longer", made me laugh so hard (in admiration) that I I spit what I consider to be really good whiskey, all over the desk!


I'm just going to come right out with it:: as my 22and25 year old Boys would say, "Dude, you've got mad skills!".


Speaking only for myself, yourbridleplow plane with the highly figured body, brass fittings and contrasting wedge/guide rods (not to mention your multimedia chair and blanket chest projects), are all fantastic, beautiful projects I couldn't approach on my best day. I'm personally grateful for all your posts and I hope you keep them coming!


Best, Mike"

I could not have said it better! That bridle plow plane takes my breath away! Please never feel as if you have shown your work too much!

Tom.

[Derek Cohen]

Thanks Mike. Thanks Tom. You are both very kind.

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Andrew Hughes]

Hi Andrew, I love the Santa! Is there going to be something in his hand?

Oh yes , a Ebony walking stick. Thanks

[Mike Allen1010]

Not all that recent, but at least a contribution - a small Claro Walnut silverware chest with Holly accents. The Claro Walnut was a dream to work with hand tools!

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A pair of cocobolo back saws

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[Brian Holcombe]

Such beautiful work being posted in this thread!!

[Tony Shea]

Great thread Brian and some truly inspirational work on here. For some reason I can't get the finished stool picture to upload and just gave up. This is a Perch Stool that I decided to try making. The legs are ash from a tree that blew down last year and I split up into billets to let dry. The seat is maple which ended up being really difficult to carve with my limited selection of dishing hand tools. I basically roughed it out with a large gouge and used spokeshaves and a couple of travishers to fine tune the shape. I scraped the seat to a smooth finish and am really happy with the final result, which I can't seam to get uploaded.

The legs were a lot of fun for me as I do not own a lathe. I had to saw out the shape with a bowsaw so it was square and basically made an octagon and then round. I used drawknives and spokeshaves to complete this task which I thought was a blast. No sandpaper touched the legs and stretchers so there is very slight facets left behind that really can only be felt.

This project was purely hand tool only and I really enjoyed the process. I plan on making another in the real near future to have a pair of these. The seating position of Peter Galbert's Perch Stool is really a great design. It forces you to sit with good posture. There are a lot of chairs out there that make this claim but this is the only design where I have found this to actually be true. I highly recommend people trying their hand at one of these if there at all interested in making a Windsor Style chair. There is a ton to learn from starting with this stool and a lot you can do to make it your own design. Again I wish I could get the finished stool uploaded, I will continue to work on it.

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[Brian Holcombe]

Wonderful work! I find the windsor designs quite appealing, they seem like they would fit nicely with modern furniture.

[Andy Nichols]

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Hesitant to post my hand tool work within such outstanding skill/work.

My workbench was done mostly with handtools and from reclaimed LLP old growth heartwood. The wood was saved from our German stone house remodeling, built around 1900.

Took over 8 months to build and that does not include gathering the wood.

The bench is a split top design, 10 ft long, 3 ft high and 32 inch deep, 5 inch thick, with Benchcrafted Crisscross leg vise and a Lie-Nielsen tail vise.

Thought that cutting the angled rectangular dog holes by hand would be the most difficult, and time consuming part of the build.

Turns out that premise was wrong, used my Millers Falls miter box to cut the dog hole boundaries, then chiseled out the waste and cleaned up with a router plane, only took me a couple of days total, and I don't work that much in a given day ;-)

My bench dogs are also made with handtools, copies of the LN design.

Highly pleased with the bench, most pleased with the LN tail vise, almost used a Benchcrafted Wagon vise, because I had installed one on another bench and knew the LN was a more difficult installation, sure am glad I did not follow my own advice on that one....

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[Will Boulware]

I'll echo the sentiment about being hesitant to post in the company of what's been posted so far, but here's a few from my "portfolio".

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Machines were used for rough stock prep for all, but hand tools did the majority of the work on these.

Great thread so far! I'm awed by the talent on display.

[Greg Krummel]

First hand tool project (outside of shop projects and small items) earlier this year. Wine and glass rack (6 bottle, 9 glass) out of red oak.

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More recent project (intended for warmer months, but it will be ready for next year!). Folding beach chair out of white oak.
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[Mike Henderson]

Here's a little box I made completely with hand tools, including stock preparation. It's mahogany so the wood was easy to work.

Mike


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[Daniel Rode]

Terrific work everyone! I'm always in awe at the talent here in our little forum. It's truly inspiring even though I feel like the least able guy in the room.

I'm working on a frame and panel toy box as a present for my grandkids. It's a simple, original design and it's it's all made with basic hand tools but is so crude and basic compared to what I see here, I'm reluctant to post a photo. What makes me want to post a photo is that it might encourage others at with less developed skills.

PS: Also, I haven't taken a photo of it yet.

[Malcolm Schweizer]

Cradle boat with 198 hand-riveted copper rivets, and wood surfboard with abalone inlays, all done with hand tools except initial dimensioning of the lumber. All made from large pieces of rough-cut lumber.

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[steven c newman]

Those that arrive at my little place find walking in the backdoor is easier to get to my shop in the basement......they also have to come in through the screendoor I made with hand tools..
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Just painted pine..
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grooves for the raised panels..
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Through mortises with a chisel..
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Housed, pinned, and wedged.
Looks better than the ones from the BORG, and might even last longer?

[nima hadavi]

I am definately not worthy but here is a box I made.....


http://i.imgur.com/xDYEFFN.jpg?2

[David Eisenhauer]

Nice box Nima. I like the chamfer work. What is the piece showing from underneath the box?

[nima hadavi]

It resembles a sort of floating base as seen more so in the below image....
http://i.imgur.com/tGU4BzO.jpg?1

[steven c newman]

Nice!!!! I might have to "steal" that idea......:D

[Phil Stone]

[Greg Krummel]
More recent project (intended for warmer months, but it will be ready for next year!). Folding beach chair out of white oak.
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This is beautiful, and very much like what I have been looking for as a star-gazing chair. Do you happen to have plans?

[John Crawford]

I can't match the fine work posted here, but just to contribute, here are some pictures of a flip-top standing desk I made for my office. I learned lots making this, and got lots of advice here.

It is based on plans in one of Roy Underhill's books, but redesigned to be a computer-desk that will fit my laptop computer. I'm not sure I got all the proportions right, but it does function for me.

The case is made of spalted maple, which was terribly hard; hard maple is off the list for the next few projects. The legs are a spalted mystery-wood, perhaps hickory. Something about that wood was very destructive to my edges: 2-3 swipes down a leg, and a hock blade was sent back to the stones!

The wood had acclimatized to my house for over a year. I then took the finished desk to my office, and found that the heating system takes it down to around 15% relative humidity.... All my careful joinery and angles went nuts. (I dragged it back home, and it is fine!) I'm still puzzled as to how you pros make furniture that a customer could move into an unknown environment. I suspect this rustic design is not the best.

Thanks for looking!

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[Phil Mueller]

John, looks great to me. Joinery is nice and tight, at least where it's sitting in the picture. Nice job!

[Eric R. Smith]

This is my latest project. It has been about a year since I got the log for the project. All from the log except the poplar seat, it was sawn locally and air dried. This is my first Windsor and there are quite a few mistakes. The worst mistake is as i was drilling the comb for the spindles my tape moved and i drilled through the face of the comb. 1 almost done and 3 more to go. I think im going with plain black milk paint finish. All done with hand tools except the lathe work. Here are some pics.
http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y366/Eric_R_Smith/image_zpsysx0ps4z.jpg (http://s1030.photobucket.com/user/Eric_R_Smith/media/image_zpsysx0ps4z.jpg.html)
http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y366/Eric_R_Smith/image_zpsyl4zkaiu.jpg (http://s1030.photobucket.com/user/Eric_R_Smith/media/image_zpsyl4zkaiu.jpg.html)
http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y366/Eric_R_Smith/image_zpsbopnoyqm.jpg (http://s1030.photobucket.com/user/Eric_R_Smith/media/image_zpsbopnoyqm.jpg.html)

[Mike Henderson]

Make a plug for that hole. If you choose the wood for the plug carefully, so that the grain matches, no one will ever notice.

Mike

[Denys Sushko]

wallnut box for a wife
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[Brian Holcombe]

Beautifully done!

[Prashun Patel]

Eric-
That looks fantastic. I dream of this project.

[Prashun Patel]

"I suspect this rustic design is not the best"
John - looks great from where I stand. Elegant design and wood choice.

[Art Mann]

I am definitely not a hand tool woodworker but I thoroughly enjoyed going through this collection of great work. Of all the projects so far, I think Rob Luter's project is my favorite. It isn't the most sophisticated or challenging design, but I just think it is beautiful.

[Rob Luter]

I am definitely not a hand tool woodworker but I thoroughly enjoyed going through this collection of great work. Of all the projects so far, I think Rob Luter's project is my favorite. It isn't the most sophisticated or challenging design, but I just think it is beautiful.

Thanks. I'm a hack compared to most, but I appreciate the kind words.

[Eric Hartunian]

My largest all hand tool piece. Mahogany, with pine and maple secondary woods. Weighs a ton...

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[Phil Mueller]

Well done, Eric! Beautiful piece.

[steven c newman]

Now, yet another box ( seems someone here "likes" them so much)
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Other than resawing the Cherry boards to 1/2" thick...everything else was by hand tools
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Corners were hand cut. Lid was with a raised panel done with a plane.

Pastor at the wife's church wanted a box for the church's office, so he could hide his stash of candy from all the kids.

[Normand Leblanc]

A ten drawers chest for my daughter. All hand tools made of cherry. All brass was bought at LeeValley.
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[David Eisenhauer]

Nice Norman. What will she store in it? Clothing? Shallow drawers have me curious.

[Normand Leblanc]

Believed or not she makes all kind of rubber stamps (lots of teachers are buying from her via Etsy). She cut and engrave them with a laser. The stamps are about 3/8" thick and she wanted to be able to stack 3 of them.

Normand

[David Eisenhauer]

OK. Glad to hear it because I did not want to say - "Gosh Norman, kind of looks like one of those machinest's chests only better" if it was for underwear/socks/scarves/etc. Where did you source the handles?

[Normand Leblanc]

My father was a machinist and I still have his chest. My daughter wanted something similar.
Handles are from LeeValley.

Normand

[Mel Fulks]

Nice,that's one of those things that everybody wants. And decades from now if it's on Ebay it will be "rare ,possibly one of a kind custom ordered GERSTNER chest"....so put your name and claim on it in several places!

[Jim Koepke]

The stamps are about 3/8" thick and she wanted to be able to stack 3 of them.

On first sight my thought was your daughter is an architect and needed storage for drawings or maybe she worked with stained glass.

Very nice chest of drawers.

jtk

[Normand Leblanc]

Jim,
Many years back she draw this post card and she sells a large number of them each year (+ many other ones now). Most Canadian Parks have that card for sale. For now she still have a regular job but between stamps and post cards it's getting to be a fair business. She's an artist!
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Merry Christmas to all,
Normand

[Rob Luter]

A ten drawers chest for my daughter. All hand tools made of cherry. All brass was bought at LeeValley.
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I'm pretty sure I need to make one of these. Can you post a picture of the interior that illustrates how you handled the drawer slides?

[Brian Holcombe]

Very nice work Normand! I like your use of NK drawers.

[Normand Leblanc]

Rob,

I've used Russian birch plywood for the bottom of the drawers and the slides. Slides have been glued for 2-3" near the front and then nailed. My father machinist chest was done like that and it's still working fine after 50+ years. A divider was used for locating each slide position and the drawer fronts were made slightly higher than required. All I had to do is plane down one by one those fronts for a perfect fit.

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Brian,
I had to do some research to find what NK stand for..."which are the initials of a Swedish store Nordiska Kompaniet". Thanks.

Normand

[Jim Belair]

Jim,
Many years back she draw this post card and she sells a large number of them each year (+ many other ones now). Most Canadian Parks have that card for sale. For now she still have a regular job but between stamps and post cards it's getting to be a fair business. She's an artist!
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Merry Christmas to all,
Normand

I`ve certainly seen that card and the others in our park stores Normand. Nice to make the connection. Your daughter has talent, like her father!

[Darrell LaRue]

Here's one of my hand-tool projects.

It's a linenfold panel chest, made of white pine (because that's what I had lots of) and finished with shellac. I used a couple of rebate planes, hollows & rounds, jack, jointer, smoother, and badger planes. Four carving chisels for the ends of the linenfold. I made the panels initially as a set of samples for a demo/lecture on linenfold carving. Each end of each panel was completed to a different stage, as examples. The panels were buried in the shop under a pile of junk on the tablesaur for years (It's SWMBO's saw, not mine, and it gets used about once every 5 years) until I needed a box for our kitchen gear at the Pennsic War.

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If I was to make another it would be birch or cherry, something that carves a bit easier then pine. Pine is just too soft, it was a serious challenge to my sharpening skills to cut that stuff without making a hash of it.

Darrell
Merry Christmas to all!

[Mel Fulks]

Linenfold! Bet it is the only one around for quite a distance! It's a form I always associate with riven oak and dark color but that is a nice cheerful and useful interpretation. And that particular carving design seems to have unusually high relief.

[Nicholas Lawrence]

My downstairs bathroom for some reason does not have any baseboard. The rest of the house has a baseboard with a very simple profile, and with some time off for Christmas I am making some up so we can install it and make the bathroom look a little nicer. Here is a picture of a couple of the lengths I made this afternoon, with the tools used.

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The profile is 1/2" x 3", with the top 1/2 inch or so rounded off sort of like a quarter round. I started with a length of 1 x 3 from Home Depot. After marking the profile on the stock, I use a block plane to bevel the edge, removing much of the waste, then a round to cut it to final dimension. For some reason it seems to come out best when I use a slightly larger round for the final passes, hence the two rounds even though what I am making is basically a glorified piece of quarter round. Then it is just a matter of marking the backside of the stock, and thinning to 1/2" thick with the jack.

Hardly the world's most complicated project, and far short of what many folks have posted. Interesting and enjoyable though.

[Brian Holcombe]

Got a new wood block print, old but new to me. Made a frame for it in AYC;

https://brianholcombewoodworkerblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/img_5451-1.jpg

That made my hodgepodge-slapdash straightedge holder look pretty ugly.

https://brianholcombewoodworkerblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/img_5485-1.jpg

I was very proud of myself, but my wife suggested that I get back to productive work straight away.

[Les Groeller]

Built two Bent arm Morris chairs.Maple and Walnut. Hand tools only.



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[Jim Koepke]

Built two Bent arm Morris chairs.Maple and Walnut. Hand tools only.

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Howdy Les and Welcome. For some reason you image didn't come through.

jtk

[Les Groeller]

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[Jim Koepke]

Hope the pic works this time!

It did,

jtk

[lowell holmes]

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This chair is 70 percent hand work. It is a chair I made of curly maple for my daughter to rock my grandchildren.

[Phil Mueller]

Just to sort of keep this thread alive, here's my latest hand tool only box making exercise. Scrap box piece of Borg oak.

Miters are getting better. But, cutting off the top after glue up went south fast. Didn't notice the saw going way off line on the opposite side :mad: Ended up planing the top piece down and adding a strip of zebra wood I had laying around. Get one thing right...and another step creates a colossal lesson.

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[David Eisenhauer]

Very nice box. TMI about the addition of the zebra wood - you planned it that way, correct?

[Oskar Sedell]

just glued up my new tool chest. Maple with bottom in pine. Will have two narrow sliding trays on the runners, leaving about a third of openening down to the bottom layer. Hope to plane the dovetails flush today, and then off to dimensioning wood for the trays.

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[Andrew Hughes]

Sehr gut !

[Chris Hachet]

just glued up my new tool chest. Maple with bottom in pine. Will have two narrow sliding trays on the runners, leaving about a third of openening down to the bottom layer. Hope to plane the dovetails flush today, and then off to dimensioning wood for the trays.

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Really nice work, thanks for posting this up

[Brian Holcombe]

Beautiful work fellas! Very nice!

[Oskar Sedell]

Thanks gentlemen! Keep up the posting and the progress pics.

[steven c newman]

Perhaps a journey through a thread on here? " A Dresser build". 90% hand tool work. On a long journey to build a chest of drawers. Just a few hours of work at a time, then a day of rest.

[Oskar Sedell]

update on the tool chest. Finally got all the pieces together. My plan was to have the trays sliding, leaving an opening down to the bottom layer. But I decided I rather have the room for stuff and made the trays to cover the full width. It's easy enough to lift one tray up on the other. Outside finished with BLO, inside and trays left unfinished.

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Still undecided how to organize the trays. Only sure thing is one will hold my paring chisels.

Off to new projects!

[Brian Holcombe]

Very nice work!

[Jim Koepke]

Only sure thing is one will hold my paring chisels.

Off to new projects!

It is obvious you need more chisels:

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And this isn't even all of them.

Maybe I should join chisels anonymous. :eek:

jtk

[Bob Glenn]

Here's few of mine, with the hand tool proof.

[William Fretwell]

Built this 33 year' ago when I had NO tools! Scammed an old plane, brace drill and saw from a dead guy. Wedged the wood (Bludy Heavy Piranha Pine) onto Cotswold stone wall t' plane it, across t' wall t' saw it. Fitted the dowels wi m'e teeth. Inside rails ripped b'hand while beer drink'in folk sat'on wall and board!
Walk int' t' frame, it hurts, nere a shimmy! Crazy eavy, bootiful grain and patna.
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[John C Cox]

Does mostly made with hand tools count?
Click the thumbs for full size.

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[steven c newman]

Mainly hand tools.....could have been done 100%...COPD doesn't enough some things...
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Walnut table...Christmas present for the Boss's Pastor...

[Jason Dean]

This is the first thing I made with hand tools only (did some ripping with a bandsaw).

Osage/Walnut joiners mallet made from firewood.

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[Oskar Sedell]

Thanks Brian!

Jim: I agree, it's very obvious. Working on it :)

[John Schtrumpf]

A box for my crystolon stone.

[Ed Frie]

About a year ago I've made a large cutting board all with hand tools. Let me tell you that only a retired person (or someone with lot of free time) can do something like that because it takes a large amount of time. I've made one but it's the last one.

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I don't care how long that took you, it is drop-dead gorgeous. I always think about setting up a shop with no electricity allowed, not even lights or heating. I would use lanterns and wood stove. Then my wife says, "you'd never get anything done," and I quit thinking about it.

[allen long]

I don't care how long that took you, it is drop-dead gorgeous. I always think about setting up a shop with no electricity allowed, not even lights or heating. I would use lanterns and wood stove. Then my wife says, "you'd never get anything done," and I quit thinking about it.

You're right it is gorgeous. That bad boy is huge. Was it meant as a counter top? Or so Normand could carve up a whole side of beef on it?!!

[Normand Leblanc]

Thanks Ed and Allan. Here is some installed pictures.
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That's at my sister house.

[Derek Cohen]

Norman's, that is a really brilliant design. How did you arrange the pieces?

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Normand Leblanc]

I'm not in your category Derek, so thanks for the nice words.

I've assemble many strips, like 3 or 4 blocks x 2 ft long or so making sure that none of them were the same pattern. Then I cut them to the required length (the thickness of this cutting board).

Next step was to assemble those strips to achieve one complete row.

I've documented the process on my blog.
http://ancienscopeaux.ca/en/a-huge-cutting-board/

[Stew Hagerty]

I posted these in a thread of their own, but I figured I put them up here too. This is a Hall/Sofa Table that I made for a charity auction. It's made from Ash with a Pommele Makore Veneered center section, breadboard ends, floating top, and curved legs. I used the table saw to rough out the lumber and the band saw to cut the basic shape of the legs from a square blank. Everything else was done with hand tools.

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[steven c newman]

Table looks great! As for the Dungeon Shop..
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Pine, 5 drawer Chest of Drawers for shop storage. The box on top?
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Is a Poplar box I made to house the Stanley No. 45 that made a lot of the joints for both of these.
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To replace a OEM box that the USPS used as a soccer ball..box joints were by hand, as well.

[Kris Cook]

Last year I was working out of town, and the place I was staying had a small garage. I asked my local purveyor of WW tools for some ideas for a project I could build using hand tools. He suggested a tool chest. I used Mike Pekovich's design from FWW.

I bought milled lumber for the project, and the only power tool I took with me was a skill saw for cutting to rough length. I did have to thickness plane a couple of pieces by hand.

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The chest is back home now and most of the tools that fit in it went back into my wall-hanging chest. I do keep my mortising chisels in one of the drawers and well, my tool collection does seem to keep growing...

-Kris-

[Mike Recchione]

Finished this last month. It's a Greek Tzouras, 57cm scale length, bowl carved and hollowed from a slab of "mystery wood", and almost all the rest of it made from scraps and leftovers that were in the shop. 100% hand tools. The only electrons that died making this were the ones running the lights, the heat, and the stereo...

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[Howard Pollack]

Nice work!
-Howard

[John Kananis]

There's some beautiful pieces in this thread.


Finished this last month. It's a Greek Tzouras, 57cm scale length, bowl carved and hollowed from a slab of "mystery wood", and almost all the rest of it made from scraps and leftovers that were in the shop. 100% hand tools. The only electrons that died making this were the ones running the lights, the heat, and the stereo...

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You sir, might appreciate the talents of a man named Manolis Hiotis - I believe it was Jimmy Hendrix that said Hiotis was the most talented man on a stringed instrument. Beautiful piece, btw. Have you made others of this type?

[Mike Recchione]

There's some beautiful pieces in this thread.



You sir, might appreciate the talents of a man named Manolis Hiotis - I believe it was Jimmy Hendrix that said Hiotis was the most talented man on a stringed instrument. Beautiful piece, btw. Have you made others of this type?

Thanks! I am very familiar with Hiotis - he's the father of the "modern" tetraxordio bouzouki, and was a real virtuoso. He more or less invented the modern bouzouki style. I have a tetraxordio bouzouki (though I can't play like Hiotis), but in recent years have been more attracted to the more raw, traditional rebetiko style, played on the trixordio instruments. (Think Markos Vamvakaris and earlier - kind of like the "Greek Blues").

This tzouras is a trixordio, tuned Dd-aa-dd, and is a traditional rebetiko instrument. I've also made a "cigar box" trixordio baglamas, which I've played out with a few times. I had originally planned to make a complete set of trixordio instruments (baglama, tzouras, and bouzouki), but I've just started another build, which is a sort of a copy of a 16th Century Spanish vihuela de mano - a different path altogether.

I've been a pretty dedicated neanderthal since the early days on The Porch, back in the 1990s, but my interests have sort of shifted away from furniture to stringed instruments, mostly either ethnic/folk or historical. I guess I'm more on the historical kick right now.

Thanks again for the kind words!

[Mike Recchione]

Nice work!
-Howard
Thanks, Howard!
- Mike

[Oskar Sedell]

Hi all, I found this thread a very nice one. Maybe it can be brought back to life? Some recent projects of mine.

Planemaking saw:

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Jack plane

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Hornbeam kanna:

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and finally getting a frame saw together. Here ripping alder for a table top.

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A lot of toolmaking. Have been moving, building a bench, and setting up my workshop so more builds other than tools are coming up.

What have you been up to?

[Gerald Schram]

asome plane oskar! jerry

[Ken Martin]

I built this Folding Campaign table based on pictures on "Pegs and Tails" blog. I used a laminated panel for the top and dimensioned lumber for the rest. The only power tool was a drill with screwdriver bit.

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[ernest dubois]

At the first entry even timber framing projects were included. Well, I didn't see one so far and even though my workshop is a work in progress stretching back some years and still not completed, we can call it current. Instead of using only hand tools, (there was no choice) I use axes only.
But of course I don't hammer nails with an axe.
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Squaring up
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[steven c newman]

Made MOSTLY with hand tools in a Hybrid shop...
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Stands 73-1/2" tall, by 26" wide.
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Made a "Rachel's Standing Desk" for my wife's Pastor to teach from...
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Rust hunt gouge, was used to .....
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To make a finger rest under a lid....
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Of a small chest...
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Cherry panels were "raised" with a hand plane. Walnut frames were grooved to hold the panels using a stanley 45. Corner joints use a Tongue & Groove joint, also from the 45.
Has been a busy year...

[Jeff Heath]

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Two recent projects. Mahogany desk for my daughter, and a beech shoulder/rebate plane, 3/4", for myself.

[Prashun Patel]

Pretty dovetails, Jeff. Can you show the whole desk?

[Jim Koepke]

My main hand tool project last year was a cabinet to hold books and some drawers:

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It is already full and there is need of more shelves and drawers.

jtk

[Jeff Heath]

Prashun

Thanks for your interest. The desk was made from an approx. 80 year old (when it was cut) recycled board of honduran mahogany that a friend gave to me about 15 years ago. I'd been saving it for something special. I got three 11 foot long and 16"-18" wide boards from him. 2 were walnut (beautiful old growth) and 1 turned out to be this honduran mahogany board. They were paneling boards out of his grandfather's house, built back in the late 1920's to early 1930's.

The desk is 26" deep and 48" wide. I used almost every square inch of it, and the rips off each width were used for the aprons around the sides and back. I had to use 8/4 sapele for the legs, and 5/4 sapele for the front and drawer (1 piece). My daughter is an environmentalist, extremely active, and recycling this board made her extremely happy.

After flattening the top

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She wanted bowties, so African Blackwood it is

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[Prashun Patel]

Really nice, Jeff. Looks like it was a joy to work with.

[Jeff Heath]

Thank you. It was, literally, the nicest and easiest timber I've ever worked. Planes like butter. Probably why it's (sadly) almost extinct.

[John Schtrumpf]

Made as a Christmas present, an oven squirrel.

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[Jim Koepke]

Made as a Christmas present, an oven squirrel.

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Is that a push/pull handle for oven racks?

jtk

[John Schtrumpf]

Is that a push/pull handle for oven racks?

jtk

Yes, tail is the handle, behind the ears is the hook to pull, and between the chin and legs is the push.

[Allen Jordan]

Oskar, those planes and saws look amazing. Is hornbeam hard to work?

[Oskar Sedell]

asome plane oskar! jerry

Thanks Jerry!

[Oskar Sedell]

Very nice Ernest. Never seen axe mortising nor a mortising axe before. Impressive precision!

[Oskar Sedell]

Oskar, those planes and saws look amazing. Is hornbeam hard to work?

Thank you Allen! No, I didn't find it particularily hard to work. My board is nice and straight grained. Ripping and planing the blank to size was easy, and even though it's hard, the mortising was ok.

[ernest dubois]

Very nice Ernest. Never seen axe mortising nor a mortising axe before. Impressive precision!
Thanks Oskar. Of all people I thought you would be the one to recognize a kreuzaxt. Mine is coming out of Germany where it has a special status in the circles of traditional building carpenters and yet knowledge of its use seems to be disappearing from our planet.

[Bruce Haugen]

Thank you. It was, literally, the nicest and easiest timber I've ever worked. Planes like butter. Probably why it's (sadly) almost extinct.

Jeff, were those bow ties to close up a crack or did your daughter just like them? Very nice desk. I agree with you about the mahogany. I made a tv cabinet twenty some years ago, and I’d never worked with wood so nice.

[Jeff Heath]

Jeff, were those bow ties to close up a crack or did your daughter just like them? Very nice desk. I agree with you about the mahogany. I made a tv cabinet twenty some years ago, and I’d never worked with wood so nice.

There was a check. I closed it with epoxy (any glue would do, but I added a very thin black dye streak....maybe you can see it in the picture. I know where to look), but added the bow-ties for her visual pleasure. She would have wanted them even if the wood had no check in it. They help, but certainly weren't necessary. The check was in the original board, which was about 11' long. It went just past the 3' mark, and I needed 48", so......better safe than sorry. Thanks for the compliment.