Robert Trotter
04-02-2007, 8:55 AM
well I have been asking a lot on this forum and still am:) but since I am on holidays I thought I might try and use some these new toys I have and make something.
Bought just construct constructoin timber s4s (or is 4s4?) the home centre (borg). I selected each piece so most was OK but I just wanted to try out some techniques and using some a few of the planes I have now so I tried truing up the surface and making things square and the same size. A bit or a pain with the construction garde spruce, knots and reversing grain. Had bit of tearout on the wide top of one of the benches. Tried plainng across the grain and fixing things and then closed up the mouth and finer shaving and worked a lot better. Not great but good practice.
Oh!:eek: forgot to put the pics in...here ya go...
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They are saw benched copied from Chris' pics on the internet. One has a narrower base the the other.(70 degrees and 75 degrees leg slope) Just to see the differnce in using them. It worked out well as they stack very nicely making a shelf unit when not in use. Getting them the same height took a while with a saw and lot of use of my LN 102 block plane. Nice little tool on the end grain. Just getting to know it. But I am sure we will be best buddies.
The horns (what do you call them?) at the end were cut with a straight hand saw (mutiple times - really need to get a saw for cutting curves) and then cleaning up by hand with a chisel.
Mortices and chisel work done with my 6mm and 21mm cheap Japanese chisels. I really need some more chisels to suit the work I am doing.
Then I had to sharpen all my blades again so I decided it was time to fix the old water stones ( I do have nice new ones Shaptons as well) so I went down and bought a masonry block and folowing some of the advice from people here, went at it. Lot of water and then a final few swipes with my diamond stone (just for keeping all my stones flat) and they were like new. I think having bought the new stones I wasn't worrying so much about stuffing them up. But they turned out OK.
So now I had some blades needing a touch up and nice flat stones I decided to make a little sharpening board...
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I made it this way so it is like a bench hool and I can put presure on it mith my waist to give me a very stable stone for sharpening.
So then I went at it and sharpened things up.
THe end
Robert
Bought just construct constructoin timber s4s (or is 4s4?) the home centre (borg). I selected each piece so most was OK but I just wanted to try out some techniques and using some a few of the planes I have now so I tried truing up the surface and making things square and the same size. A bit or a pain with the construction garde spruce, knots and reversing grain. Had bit of tearout on the wide top of one of the benches. Tried plainng across the grain and fixing things and then closed up the mouth and finer shaving and worked a lot better. Not great but good practice.
Oh!:eek: forgot to put the pics in...here ya go...
61618
61619
61620
They are saw benched copied from Chris' pics on the internet. One has a narrower base the the other.(70 degrees and 75 degrees leg slope) Just to see the differnce in using them. It worked out well as they stack very nicely making a shelf unit when not in use. Getting them the same height took a while with a saw and lot of use of my LN 102 block plane. Nice little tool on the end grain. Just getting to know it. But I am sure we will be best buddies.
The horns (what do you call them?) at the end were cut with a straight hand saw (mutiple times - really need to get a saw for cutting curves) and then cleaning up by hand with a chisel.
Mortices and chisel work done with my 6mm and 21mm cheap Japanese chisels. I really need some more chisels to suit the work I am doing.
Then I had to sharpen all my blades again so I decided it was time to fix the old water stones ( I do have nice new ones Shaptons as well) so I went down and bought a masonry block and folowing some of the advice from people here, went at it. Lot of water and then a final few swipes with my diamond stone (just for keeping all my stones flat) and they were like new. I think having bought the new stones I wasn't worrying so much about stuffing them up. But they turned out OK.
So now I had some blades needing a touch up and nice flat stones I decided to make a little sharpening board...
61621
61622
I made it this way so it is like a bench hool and I can put presure on it mith my waist to give me a very stable stone for sharpening.
So then I went at it and sharpened things up.
THe end
Robert