For what it's worth: I'm building built-ins for our house soon and so I've gone on a rampage measuring every book my family owns and researching publisher sizes. In our house, we have everything...
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For what it's worth: I'm building built-ins for our house soon and so I've gone on a rampage measuring every book my family owns and researching publisher sizes. In our house, we have everything...
Thanks everyone. I honestly can't say why I've been so torn about what otherwise feels like it should be a fairly simple decision. I've used a file before on my lawnmower; it's takes longer than...
Hi friends,
So after years of flat-grinding on a granite plate and hack-sawing long bolts shorter only to have to file their ends, I think I'm ready to finally "break down" and buy myself a bench...
As few as possible, whilst still having all I need?
Scrub (woodie)
Jack (woodie)
Jointer (woodie)
Smoother (bedrock 603)
two block planes (one's a No19 and the other's a no-name borg)...
I obsessively mark all waste AND all kept parts of joints like this (I've cut woefully few dovetails); and I tend to make it as painfully obvious as I possibly can, too. I'll even draw smiley faces...
Nope. Nope. NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOPE. Lock up the shop. Board the windows. Burn the house down. Only way to be sure.
I quote the famous Henry Jones Jr., "Snakes... Why'd it have to be snakes...."
If you're not into refinishing the top (excellent test for how sharp can you *really* get your smoothing plane, from what I hear...), it might make an outstanding, if perhaps a bit overzealous,...
First, secure the board to your CNC table. . . .
My niece is 10 and she loves driving nails with both a hammer and my pneumatic brad gun. My son is only 3 years old and I can't keep him away from the shop. For a short time I tried to keep him out...
Absolutely, Ken; count on it. I need to actually START that project before I can photograph any of it, though.... What can I say, two kids under 3 years old hasn't given me or my wife a lot of time...
I have a leather apron given to me as a gift years ago. I seem to forget to wear it more often than I remember it and it's even hanging up near the shop door. As a couple other folk have mentioned,...
Make sure your stones are flat?
Very cool, Ken. Like most of your other Moravian bench posts, you've given me something (else!) to think on as I'm planning and building my own. I wonder if there's a was to incorporate a tool rack...
I don't think I'm going to do anything except echo other people's already good advice:
I'd throw in my predictable +1 for poplar but almost more than that, find the cheap(er) wood in your area and...
I have a couple of dedicated marking knives (all of which I love, btw) and more often than not, I find I reach for [one of] my OLFA knives...
Love the build so far, Steve. Keep 'em coming - "mistakes" and all!!
Never stop posting pictures of your Moravian(s), Ken. They feed my soul.
Show me someone anyone of us agrees with ALL THE TIME and I'll show you a mirror...
I've followed almost every post you've put up, Ken, about the Moravians. I'm a disciple of the Moravian and, like Steven, have one in the queue to build (hopefully soon) as my first "real" bench. I...
Tom, that might be another way of saying my point exactly. Abrasive paper, arkansases, and water stones all have a ...feel to them (I don't know I can explain that better....); they give feedback to...
I might be one of the few who doesn't care for diamond stones, like, at all. I love the IDEA of them, to be sure; but in practice I've never had one that worked as fast or as well as I felt it...
Ken, nice to see Dubuque clamps in other people's shops! I frigging love those clamps. Now, if only I could get the *rest* of my shop to look like yours...
I've started the massive (to me) task of flattening & truing up the red oak 4x6s I reclaimed for my Moravian recently. After that workout (and I'm *far* from done), I don't know that I'd turn down a...
I've heard it called a Dutch Bench before too, not unlike Warren (but then I'm also from Pennsylvania). I've been planning a (real) workbench build for a while now, even have most of the rough...
I must be one of the only woodworkers/craftsmen around that actually likes poplar for my projects - yes, even the green stuff. Maybe that's after a lifetime of "settling" for it after every other...