Hi, after one too many incidents with an overzealous moderation and its censorship, I'm calling it quits here. Bye bye.
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Hi, after one too many incidents with an overzealous moderation and its censorship, I'm calling it quits here. Bye bye.
Please Ted, keep it under wraps before Lee Valley Nielson gets wind.
I discovered the great potential and efficiency of using axes during a time living without access to even one machine and yet...
This project of puttin' in a new floor at the house and at this stage some of the sub-floor going down I use the carpentry axe to get the job done.Trimming 'n fittin'...
I have always been real pleased with this one in particular and I am attached to the scale of it which makes me want to do work that is similarly, scaled to suit. The heft of the cocobolo gives the...
You have said that sandpaper is never used to finish the surface, ok but it is not what I have heard from another student of Krenov at College of the Redwoods who has said he definitely did use...
Yes, its the attraction for sure.
Very beautiful symmetry and lines in photo #3. Are we to understand there is no grinding involved in making the chisel?
I do have one criticism of this school and that is I think they take this diminution in scale to excess. The scale of Krenov's and similar work is a true eye opener in dimension but here they seem to...
Are you going to be signing up yourself William? Still, even just the visit and exposure is a great experience and will be useful in your own work as a sense of inspiration and that they made you...
I have to say the illustration looks pretty good, at least it's indicating the edge is supported along the length of the scraper and not instructing you to flex in the middle.
Not me, I'd fix it with a scarf, lengthening and thinning out the tang. But then I value the old handles for their own sake, and don't have a lathe.
Just vagueness in terms of references, shellac known in Europe from the 16th century and then the early 19th century mentions of the specific method. But no, nothing specific for that time frame just...
I have pulled down an old bottle of shellac finish from off the shelf, one I picked up at G.Bachet 19-21 rue Claude Tillier in Paris some years back, and looking at the label I read, Vernis gomme...
Quarter sawn.
If there are commonly used distinctions to clear it up that's all that matters but tulip wood as I know it is often confused with poplar and has some visually similar characteristics and is soft...
It's my baby alright. I have grown accustom to the projection even when it restricts movement as it is with my bench-room arrangement. The make-up of the bench top only part of the secrets revealed...
Yes the supply is becoming more and more limited. When you are in Canada there is maybe a slim chance but dwindling chance, plus you pay on top of that for shipping, in USA, no way. He won't ship...
In fact poplar- lets take Populus canadensis because it is widespread and fairly representative and avoids confusing it with tulip wood - is particularly resistant to abrasion because it has these...
It this to say we are not reading what was written but a moderated version?:)
There is a hell of a lot of confusion surrounding workbenches. We've got in the first instance internet to thank for this state as well this traditionalist character who once made a bench based on an...
I was in on that discussion so feel somewhat addressed by the query from Warren Mickley. Without making a provocation at all, it's a road I don't wish to back track unless there is some pointed and...
Mushroom? Are you sure it's not made that way?
At some point here Krenov goes into the forces at work in your wood.
https://youtu.be/KdvHGdd0NBU
There is nothing wrong with clamping your work in the bench and the traditional workbench with its fore and tail vice is well suited for a variety of options when you mark across the grain, end grain...
The problem is surly not then that it hasn't had the chance to reach equilibrium unless there are some very strange circumstances in that basement relating to moisture and ventilation and all the...