Glue it up thick, then process the panel to thickness as a unit a little bit at at time, over several days while you work on the rest of the project. Take material off both sides, keeping both sides...
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Glue it up thick, then process the panel to thickness as a unit a little bit at at time, over several days while you work on the rest of the project. Take material off both sides, keeping both sides...
Dovetail cuts for furniture are usually a maximum of an inch long in material usually no more than an inch thick and often substantially less. 12 to 15 ppi crosscut is fine. Rip is fine. If you're...
If you like it, and it works, don't change a damn thing. This whole "has to be rip" is frankly a bunch of garbage. You're making inch-long cuts. Anybody who says it's a daylight to dark difference...
Tapered iron and wedge work in unison. Use what you have but be careful sharpening. Grind a hollow but not all the way to the edge. The grinder shouldn't create a burr. Only your honing stones...
Crown Tools used to make one. I think they still do.
Build something this weekend, with the tools you have, even if it's a simple box or even a cutting board.
Don't get stuck at the tool acquisition phase, thinking you have to have a ton of kit to...
Tap lightly on the heel of the plane, then tap the wedge to secure it at the new setting. It'll take some tries to get used to it.
Should have skim planed only for color/grain match and then do the glue-up at full thickness then four-square and bring to final thickness as if it were one, huge board. It's crucial to get the side...
Be very careful to maintain the skew angle when you hone and also don't inadvertently round the iron's corners.
I was actually thinking of other armchair metallurgists, but I do see your point.
I'm going to wait for the armchair metallurgists with no professional training at all to weigh-in.
A saw doesn't need a taper grind to keep from binding in the cut. If you think it does, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of hand saws.
Not making a comment on your skill or experience other than in the narrow context that you couldn't identify whether or not you were using a taper ground handsaw if you were blindfolded and therefore...
Given the hours you've spent, on the media you own, you should have the proverbial atom splitting edge. There would be no doubt it was sharp. None. Zero. You could slice the entire alphabet out...
I'd bet a thousand bucks you couldn't identify taper vs. non-taper at rate exceeding that suggested by pure chance.
The fact of the matter is that I could put a blindfold on everybody in this thread and you'd have no clue whether the saw you were using had taper or not. Zero clue.
Just take a break.
You can't keep from polishing the back over time if you hit it to take the burr off. It's going to get polished, but no, you certainly don't need to rub it on a stone for hours...
There is no way I can stress how far off the rails you've run with this thing. Just take a break. For your own sanity. Little if any of what you're doing at this point makes sense. You have a...
But at the moment he needs to only worry about the first inch or so of the back. That's why I edited my post. It may very well have a bevel on it and it's not going to go away if he tries to...
Availability is still spotty throughout the line is it not? Still lots of unfilled backorders? Tools are being sold in secondary markets as if the company were functionally out of business, and if...
Register only the first inch or of the chisel rather than practically the whole thing - only the amount you need to keep it firm on the stone. You're spending time flattening and polishing too far...
Yep, that's how it was supposed to go.
Polish the back on your finest stone. See if the scratch pattern goes all the way to the cutting edge all the way across the chisel. If it does not, you're going to have to drop back a few steps in...
It really shouldn't take more than three minutes or so if the back was flat from the factory and already had a little polish. The jig is somehow betraying you, slipping perhaps. I can cut cheap...
It should cut printer paper absolutely cleanly, with no tearing. In fact, you should be able to hold the chisel near its end and cut curves and shapes in paper while suspended in mid-air in your off...