Phil Mueller
12-07-2020, 9:20 PM
Working on the tapered legs of my Demilune table. I decided to use Jatoba because I think it’s a good color match with the Rosewood top and found a nice 8/4 slab. The hand saw work seemed to go reasonably well, but when it comes to planing, man is this stuff hard. I’m just cleaning up saw marks and finding I need to refresh the plane blade about every two sides of a leg.
Using a LN 62 with a 50 degree bevel on the iron I’m getting nice 1.5-3 thou shavings with zero tear out, but it ain’t coming easy.
For yuks, I looked up the Janka hardness...2690. No wonder.
Just thought I’d shout this out while taking a break from the first two legs.
446490
Using a LN 62 with a 50 degree bevel on the iron I’m getting nice 1.5-3 thou shavings with zero tear out, but it ain’t coming easy.
For yuks, I looked up the Janka hardness...2690. No wonder.
Just thought I’d shout this out while taking a break from the first two legs.
446490