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Hi! The clip You linked to shows a lot of great stuff. Choosing of the log and cutting to the exact requirements of the Shokunin, the hydraulic press to remove cup...no need for fore planes huh ;) You mentioned the positioning of the wood. This is another movie, in which I see the...

Hi! Today I watched this clip on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNVCOpYojA&feature=BFa&list=PLB0C475ACB9DF4E79 At (03:20) the Craftsman checks the board for bow and twist and then heats up the wood over an electric heater/stove and starts "de-bowing" and "un-twisting" the...

Hi! I have a question about the technique you use to chop the waste from the pin board. Because of the tapering of the pins, the chopping line (space) on one side is lesser than on the other. What do you do, to avoid gauging the pins sides when chopping in from the wider side of the waste...

Hi! I saw an article written by Jim Tolpin in which he made a box with a full length groove on four sides and then fixed the "unwanted" part with a fitting from a cut-off of the same piece. If made well could be little visible or on the contrary decorative :) For sure...much easier and...

Hi! I saw an article written by Jim Tolpin in which he made a box with a full length groove on four sides and then fixed the "unwanted" part with a fitting from a cut-off of the same piece. If made well could be little visible or on the contrary decorative :) For sure...much easier and...

Hi Swagman! Beautiful work. The handle looks like made of some kind of stone...marble, rather than wood :) Very nice details. You mentioned sealing the edge grain with shellac after every shaping session. Why do You do it? Is the brass back folded, slotted or laminated? Regards! Lukasz

Dobry wieczór, Pedder! Thanks for the response :) What I meant with the tight handled one, is that, as the handle is nice and tight, I won't do anything to loosen the handle, just clean it up and also clean the blade with the handle still on. It's a very good advise to use it as a sharpening...

Hi! I got a couple of old back-saws I'd like to work on. The problem is that the handles are attached to the saw plates with rivets. What would you Guys suggest as the least destructive way of taking them off? I thought of drilling through them or cutting them with a hacksaw. The former...

Hi! Handrubbed mentioned a possibility of a leak from the plumbing. I had a similar problem with rust patches a few times and the cause was more trivial. As far as I'm aware of the nature of the problem, it was nothing else than a droplet or few of my own sweat! It may seem funny, but I, at...

Hi Jacob! Thanks for the response. You count the 3mm per face for cutting (kerf and saw wondering) as well or only the cupping/tension release? Would the calculation be also true for using a bandsaw? Regards, Lukasz.

Hi! I didn't want to start a new thread on planning stock, so I'll hook up to this one. I encountered a problem with getting a square and true board. I want to make a box. I had a ca. 1" (26mm) thick board of ash, which I saw into three parts: 2*sides (ca. 4"x8") and 1*bottom/top. Next I...

Hi dissolve! The ways that come to my mind are: 1. Put the plane on a known flat surface and try to rock it, be pressing on opposite corners. Not a precise/quantitative method, but reveals twist. 2. Use winding sticks :) You could then shim to even up the sticks and count the...

Hello! Thank You all for the responses! For sure training will get one better in sharpening. The things that I was surprised with, where things that look very simple and obvious on video, even primitive sometimes, but required a lot, or at least some attention. I.e. jointing carelessly may...

Hi! Thanks a lot for the good words, Pedder :) They make me especially happy, because I admire Your work, which I've seen on the Two Layers site! The only set the blade has is the one I've put, because the teeth were jointed very high. I used a blue Somax saw set with the setting 12...

Hi! Recently there has been some discussion about old saws on the forum, so I thought, I could put something in from myself. Some time ago I bought an old saw from eBay. It's a 10"/12TPI brass backed-saw with no makers markers on it. It looked like this: It was blunt, barely...