I can't speak to Millers Falls parts specifically but having restored a Wards (AKA Stanley) miter box I would bet that auction sites (ebay) and forums are the way to go.
Certain parts are hard to...
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I can't speak to Millers Falls parts specifically but having restored a Wards (AKA Stanley) miter box I would bet that auction sites (ebay) and forums are the way to go.
Certain parts are hard to...
Eh, I'm not so much looking for specific suggestions at the moment. Just thought it would be a good discussion topic. Whatever direction the conversation goes, I figured there would be some insight...
I recently got ahold of an old Atlas drill press (see my other recent thread for a picture) that I am pretty excited about. In the spirit of excitement I was thinking last night about the different...
Thanks for the info everyone! Looks like I'll have to build a cart of some sort. It works just fine on the floor for now though.
I've been playing around with the press the past couple days. Had...
This thing is so old, I had to stop in the middle of typing this thread because I realized the Neander forum is probably not the correct place.
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I've been getting by just fine with my...
And with that all said, here's I'm at:
With the theme of "screw it, just pick a configuration and go with it" in mind I laid out what I thought would be most aesthetically pleasing.
Before I...
Okay, the time is (finally) (close to) nigh! I made all the necessary rips and have the boards for the top picked out. I even got it narrowed down to two potential configurations which is probably...
Thanks for the reply, Robert.
Flatsawn boards face-to-face was what I figured would be ideal so that all the growth rings were vertical. That's why I was originally curious about laminating the...
It has been a stressful, busy couple months for me but I finally have a little free time again to get moving on this workbench. One thing I did figure out recently was that I was gonna need more...
Bill,
I think we-myself, at least-mistakenly typed D4 instead of No. 4. My saws and all the other Disston hacksaws I’ve seen in these sizes are No. 4’s. I’m unaware of the existence of a D4 as a...
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The forgetfulness thing is common to our species apparently. I kept forgetting to upload these pics of my most recent saw restofabrication that happens to be a D4. I was...
So...how about a picture?
Ha, I've never seen a piece of rosewood longer than a guitar back. A piece that big would be a sight to see.
Thanks for the reply, Pete. Do you ever have issues with the spine getting bent as you pry it up off the saw plate? That's basically what started to happen here--the spine is now slightly bent...
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Looks good to the untrained eye, right? Well, it is a nice plate/spine to be fair. It's the 4-bolt model rather than the 3-bolt, pretty straight, Stanley SW etch, etc. But like most things...
Honestly I don't think you'll be satisfied unless you buy two 72" Starrett straight edges. Can never be too precise, after all.
I'm certainly no expert but I'd be willing to bet that the blade matters more than the chipbreaker (cap iron). I bought an A2 blade from Lee Valley for my No. 5 jack plane a year or so ago and it...
Robert,
Just out of curiosity, do the shavings you get look anything like this?
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This came from the section of the board with the darkest/deepest stain, and if you look closely you...
I also think the insect factor is a big part of marketing something like this. With the beetle-killed wood companies are presumably taking something that would otherwise be worthless and giving it a...
If it has bug holes then that probably means the pine was infested with beetles and the fungus was introduced by them, thus it is probably a different species of fungus than what causes blue stain in...
I can't give any particular recommendations for Providence or Boston since I never spent much time there but having spent a year living in New England after growing up in the midwest and living in...
It's an interesting subject because the view on it seems to be changing. Lumber companies were initially worried about it and facilitated a lot of the research because to them stain simply meant...
As some of you may have seen I got started on a workbench about a month ago using some SYP that I found at a local sawmill. Since the initiation of this project I've been kind of fascinated with...
How convenient...I was just convinced of the need for a sawbench in another thread last week. I was thinking about the split top sawbench I see all over the internet but this design looks a little...
Chris,
I can understand why the rift sawn boards ought to be towards the back but I don't understand why it would be better to have the growth rings horizontal rather than vertical. Can you...
Hovarter Custom Vise makes a quick-release leg vise screw that is actually cheaper than a lot of wooden vise screws. I haven't read any reviews of it but it looks pretty spiffy.