Chris Hachet
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One fly in the ointment...availability.....whereas one can buy a #45 almost every day of the week and have it shipped.....and NOT have to worry about...

Coat #2 has been steel wooled...will get a wipe down, later today...and then a coat of "Warm Gloss" poly will get brushed on... Stay tuned....

$1 RUSTY saw, today... Disston & Sons, pre-1928 D-8 Have to learn to look beneath the grime, and a bent plate...because.. 15 minutes in the...

On the later models, Stanley added a way to micro-adjust the fence....They also went with a rosewood fence...Older ones, the rods were threaded into...

Hmmm.. hmmm.. One cut with the grain (Ash) and the other against it... Dresses things up a bit. A Stanley No. 45, with the basic set of...

Hmmm.. Hmmm.. The ORIGINAL 7 planes in one.. Makes a batch of noodles, too... YMMV...

update.... 1st coat rubbed out...2nd coat of amber shellac has been brushed on... will take a picture or 2 later...not much change..spots I had...

"Trophy" for today.. No.3 Saw Vise...$5...

Between the glare of the overhead lights.. And this table does not stand all that tall.. Makes it hard to get a decent PIP.. Yes, I even...

1st coat of Amber Shellac is on....table and drawer...waiting to see how it turns out, now...

Will have to wait a day or two, but.. We getting there..

Drawer has been glued up.. Screws were added to the back glue blocks.. Proper screws, proper screwdriver...North Brothers 135 Slots drilled...

Hmmm-ph... And... All the big planes are over in the til... Or in a case...well, there was one out doing a bit of work.. As a drawer...

Dados are done.. Spurs are in bad shape,,,used the dovetail saw to just saw the walls of the dado...45 to remove most of the waste... And the...

Some swear by using AutoSol and a wadded up ball of Foil...others will use the Auto Body Rubbing Compound and a cloth rag.....Once it is bright and...

My bench is for work, not to serve Dinner on....planes are made to sit ON wood....and, as long as they don't get slid when you set them down...they...

Late last night...had to run down to the basement...Boss needed something.....Couldn't help it, just had to try the plane out...jigged up the drawer...

Hmmm... It is MADE to be ON wood....and sitting, it ain't gonna cut anything...maybe learn how to set one these things done... The Plane Tils...

Ran the drawer front a few times, milling both ends....Had had enough hand chopping dovetails.. Pins first, of course...then over to the bench ...

Hmmm, had a "Gulley-washer" of a rain storm come through last night...this morning I went to the shop... And found that the Dungeon Creek had...

Calling it Friday's Follies.....start a glue up.. About the only space in the shop for this sort of thing.....F style clamps were not getting...

Seems that the shorter the "sweep" the higher the "rpms", while the bigger the sweep, the more torque can be applied. Try spinning a 12" sweep...

Have never used any form of Hide Glue....and I doubt IF I ever will.....kind of set in me ways...I guess. Coated the tenons completely, thin...

Well...last night, tried to make 4 parts....plan was to just use Pine 1 x 2s to make the corner glue blocks....several problems got in the way... ...

This morning..knocked the parts apart....worked on problem areas.. Like this, and sand off all the pencil marks...decided to glue up the sides ...

If'n I wanted a stack of parts to be all the same length....I gang them up, and cut them all at once... There IS Chuting Board in the...

Ok..Mortise for the other tenon wasn't all that hard to do....LOTS of chopping, though. As for the dovetail socket...perhaps a more "refined way" ...

2 hours in the shop, today....5 more joints to do....wood joints, that is.. I needed 2 sticks... These needed to match the aprons in...

I was doing a lamination on those legs, and used a roller to moosh the beads out... M&T joints: Coat the tenon. Gluing up a flat panel,...

Ok...takes about 20 minutes per mortise...counting laying each out.. Chopping out the waste...takes about 3 trips.. To get from this to... ...