Jim Koepke
11-07-2021, 1:48 AM
My grandson Mike almost got away yesterday without me taking a picture of his first dovetail box:
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Not bad for a first time. He cut all but the first tail of one corner.
It seems my shop is running out of space for my rust accumulation addiction. (is there an AA for this? Accumulators Anonymous?)
A collection of tools is being put together to ship to him. He was introduced to scraping so he needs a burnisher and he liked my awl made of HSS so one of those is in the works.
The piece of lumber chosen for the handles was out of square and was taller than it was wide. Getting three of the sides square was quick with a plane. Instead of planing down the ~1/8” extra on the side an tip from an old Fine Woodworking magazine was employed. Use a piece of scrap the same length as the stock. In this case the stock is long enough to make two handles. Place the work stock against the fence and the scrap against the stock:
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Carefully push both piece to cut the scrap, push sticks are easy to make and safer.
After cutting place the scrap against the fence. Then in this case to make the stock square, it was rotated to place the excess in the path of the blade:
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This method would work to make duplicate sizes of another piece. This one only needed a few passes with a smoothing plane to get it square enough for my caliper to like it.
Next step is to make a divot for the lathe’s tail stock center. First mark center:
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The awl is shop made from a piece of HSS drill stock. The awl's tip is four sided. It registers well against a rule and seems to hold its edge at the tip quite well. It has even been used to scribe a couple pieces of metal without ill effect.
Once the X is marked the next step was to use an awl to start a pilot for the gimlet:
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Gimlets are often my choice for a quick hole or two. This one makes a quick dimple for the lathe’s tail center:
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The sizes on my tanged gimlets have been recorded on my wood screw chart matching screw size to gimlet for boring pilot holes.
Gimlets don’t show up very often in Antique shops or estate sales and such. Now the only come home with me if it is really cute. :D
Was there mention of an addiction of accumulation?
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There really aren’t that many duplicates now…
jtk
467657
Not bad for a first time. He cut all but the first tail of one corner.
It seems my shop is running out of space for my rust accumulation addiction. (is there an AA for this? Accumulators Anonymous?)
A collection of tools is being put together to ship to him. He was introduced to scraping so he needs a burnisher and he liked my awl made of HSS so one of those is in the works.
The piece of lumber chosen for the handles was out of square and was taller than it was wide. Getting three of the sides square was quick with a plane. Instead of planing down the ~1/8” extra on the side an tip from an old Fine Woodworking magazine was employed. Use a piece of scrap the same length as the stock. In this case the stock is long enough to make two handles. Place the work stock against the fence and the scrap against the stock:
467658
Carefully push both piece to cut the scrap, push sticks are easy to make and safer.
After cutting place the scrap against the fence. Then in this case to make the stock square, it was rotated to place the excess in the path of the blade:
467659
This method would work to make duplicate sizes of another piece. This one only needed a few passes with a smoothing plane to get it square enough for my caliper to like it.
Next step is to make a divot for the lathe’s tail stock center. First mark center:
467660
The awl is shop made from a piece of HSS drill stock. The awl's tip is four sided. It registers well against a rule and seems to hold its edge at the tip quite well. It has even been used to scribe a couple pieces of metal without ill effect.
Once the X is marked the next step was to use an awl to start a pilot for the gimlet:
467661
Gimlets are often my choice for a quick hole or two. This one makes a quick dimple for the lathe’s tail center:
467662
The sizes on my tanged gimlets have been recorded on my wood screw chart matching screw size to gimlet for boring pilot holes.
Gimlets don’t show up very often in Antique shops or estate sales and such. Now the only come home with me if it is really cute. :D
Was there mention of an addiction of accumulation?
467663
There really aren’t that many duplicates now…
jtk