I don't know. :D I'm the wrong guy to tell you how to use it for sharpening - I've never actually used mine for that. I mentioned it only after reading the discussion about loupes. Mine lives with...
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I don't know. :D I'm the wrong guy to tell you how to use it for sharpening - I've never actually used mine for that. I mentioned it only after reading the discussion about loupes. Mine lives with...
On the topic of magnification, another option to look at for shop use would be a geologist's hand lense. Small form factor like a jewellers loupe, similar magnification, but in my experience more...
This is true, and I've had the same thought myself. It sets my spidey sense tingling... It would seem to be quite a logical progression.
That's an unfortunate circumstance.
I can say that I've purchased a fair amount of PM-V11 product in the past couple years, much of it listed as out of stock when I placed the order. I don't...
I'd just wedge the thing during glue up
Interesting timing on this - I haven't actually done this, but I've added it to the list of possible shop fixtures to build as needed...
One of the instagram feeds I follow posted it a day or two...
Two comments on height, very valid points. This particular one is 5 shelves, top shelf will be about 5'6" off the ground.
I've got variable quality stock to work with, hence the post. I've been...
Coming off a recent thread about the effort (or lack thereof) put into show and non-show surfaces, and inspired by an ongoing project of mine, I'm curious how the breakdown of responses will be.
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Last I recall seeing from Rob Lee was that the addition of Bubinga to the CITES conventions had accelerated a switch to torrefied maple for all totes and knobs - and that there were production issues...
Yes. Fundamentally it's just two exactly equal sticks of wood. Gang up a couple scraps, and square up the ganged set. Personally I'd go longer than 18". Mine are 36", of beech with an inlaid...
Plow the groove with a router plane?
Maybe the pushback Stan mentions comes from relative newbies (such as myself) for whom the idea is, frankly, a little intimidating. I totally agree with the premise - but up at the salt face, it's...
Huh. That's neat.
This:
Would suggest that this is wrong:
Learned something today. There apparently *is* a meaningful difference in the Young's modulus, even at the scale we're talking...
I am not a machinist nor a toolmaker. So there might be something I'm missing.
But as a geologist - I can't see anything other than, possibly, colour. A black granite might be easier to sight...
Very interesting. I'm guessing this has something to do with the stores selling lots of offcuts of torrefied maple in varying stages of handle manufacture?
Glad to hear you guys are climbing the...
All finished.
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There are a few things I'd do differently next time. First, I'd clock the screws in the top and bottom brass. Minor point, but the recesses pointing all over the map are...
I'm a suspicious SoB, so I'd be trying to figure out just *why* this sapele is so cheap. It certainly isn't up in my neck of the woods. First inclination would be to buy a bunch to stockpile for...
Thanks Jim! I'm starting to feel like it's going to turn out reasonably well.
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The body is back in clamps now, epoxying the second, un-slotted, brass plate on the base. After that,...
I've heard a couple toolmakers that use Shellawax (Vesper, in particular, has mentioned it IIRC) - if you're turning new handles, or have a buffing wheel to toss on a grinder, it might give added...
Out of the clamps, excess brass filed back. Next step on the agenda, the one that prompted the start of the thread.
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Plowed grooves for the two side wear strips, epoxying them, and the brass for the inside edge of the square onto the wood stock now.
Plowing the two grooves through this wood was a...
Was sent out of town for a few weeks to go look at some rocks, but back at it, getting the various bits and bobs all sorted.
Brian - Solid brass would certainly make a great handle, but it...
Jeff - Very true. I like to think that the mental walkthroughs fall into the "ounce of preparation" camp, and that as long as I don't let the thinking get in the way of doing, then no worries. All of...
Jeff, John, Jim, Thanks for the comments.
The plan is, and always has been, to prototype one in beech before reaching for the billet of African blackwood I'm going to use for the final versions....
Good afternoon all-
I've decided to make myself a try square following the plans for the Bridge City version that PW has had on their site for a number of years.
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