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The Twin Maples: The saws are here!
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A Teenager's Journey into Woodworking and Life-here lies naivety and beginnings! Tuesday, August 4, 2015. The saws are here! A while ago, Sebastian offered to send me a saw on Reddit, in a comment chain on how to get blades out of some kannas the OP had inherited. He ended up sending me multiple! First, the beautiful pruning saw Murakami sent me as a gift:. Murakami says it was forged 40 years ago by Nakaya Masaemon, and has never been used! This will be a cherished gift! And here's the rip saw! Using th...
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My peculiar nature: August 2015
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An exploration of, well, whatever I happen to be interested in. Probably more Japanese tools and sharpening stones than any sane person would want to see. The fools progress? Friday, August 21, 2015. A BIG madonoko saw! So here is one of the saws that I have recently received.a monster madonoko ("window saw", I believe.referring to the deep gullet that were cut into the saw plate to better facilitate chip clearance). The original auction photo from Yahoo Japan auctions. Http:/ rk-trading.ocnk.net/. It's ...
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My peculiar nature: December 2014
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An exploration of, well, whatever I happen to be interested in. Probably more Japanese tools and sharpening stones than any sane person would want to see. The fools progress? Saturday, December 20, 2014. So, here we are, a million things are running through my head, and I've got writer's block. I thought about calling this post, "How NOT to move to Hawaii! But after the first few days, things have begin to settle down a bit. Thank god. Listen to the roosters crow (there are many! Renee somehow found us a...
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My peculiar nature: New old tools!
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An exploration of, well, whatever I happen to be interested in. Probably more Japanese tools and sharpening stones than any sane person would want to see. The fools progress? Sunday, August 2, 2015. It's tool sharpening day again.Oh joy! As you know by now, that's not meant to sound sarcastic, either. This bevel angle wanders around a bit, so I'm just trying to improve things a little bit. What looks like dust on the blade.that's steel. These files cut! They arrived two days ago, and they are perfect!
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My peculiar nature: October 2014
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An exploration of, well, whatever I happen to be interested in. Probably more Japanese tools and sharpening stones than any sane person would want to see. The fools progress? Thursday, October 30, 2014. A gift for a friend- - -refurbishing a seme-ganna Japanese plane. I've been building some stairs, to access an attic bedroom that we built only, what. 6 years ago! The ladder that we had been using had it's charm, but I think that the renters of our house might want something a bit more traditional. The i...
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The Twin Maples: July 2015
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A Teenager's Journey into Woodworking and Life-here lies naivety and beginnings! Saturday, July 25, 2015. So, back to the Dead Scrub Plane. It turns out, the first two replacement soles were the only VISIBLE sole repairs. There were more sole repairs when I removed the split sole. For this one, I just cut off the protruding nails and filed them smooth. On one side, there is red paint, dappled with white specks and scratched in places. Some nails are visible. Friday, July 24, 2015. Got the forge working!
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The Black Dog's Woodshop: March 2015
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The Black Dog's Woodshop. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Plane-making videos (and other resources). When I first started making traditional planes, there wasn't much information out there. The only book on the subject, John Whelan's Making Traditional Wooden Planes. Was long out of print. There was plenty of information on making "Krenov"-style planes, but not on making traditional abutment-style planes (a much tougher task). Larry William's has a great video, Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes. It's real...
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The Black Dog's Woodshop: May 2014
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The Black Dog's Woodshop. Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Ugh This is not a fun post to write. I did say, at the beginning of my skew mitre project, that I might fail…and I have, at least temporarily. Or, to be more precise, steel failed me. So: I intended to use a vintage W. Butcher iron, that I'm pretty sure was never used. It took a lot of work to grind it to the proper shape and coarsely flatten the back:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Yes, We Still Have Stickers. Peter Follansbee, joiner's notes. A Podcast and...
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The Black Dog's Woodshop: April 2014
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The Black Dog's Woodshop. Saturday, April 19, 2014. Skew mitre plane: the mortise. Not much time for planemaking or blogging lately, but I did make some progress on the mortise. Chopping the mortise was not really more difficult than with an unskewed plane- just more time-consuming. Here's a completely phony, posed shot, taken after the fact, that shows how the guide is used. Finally, I chiseled away the waste between the saw cuts. Here's a shot of the more-or-less finished mortise:. I'm going to try and...
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The Black Dog's Woodshop: More mockups, and some tenoning strategies
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The Black Dog's Woodshop. Thursday, September 11, 2014. More mockups, and some tenoning strategies. The first step was to bore and ream a hole in a piece of scrap. I reamed at slight angle, squaring the body of the reamer to the side of the scrap piece. Then I planed the side until I opened up a slot of even width,. And then cleaned up the slot and bolted a plane frog on. Peter Galbert, in this post. The other ends of the stiles have shouldered, untapered tenons. I found these much easier to cut free...