COMP063 WIP Photos - Chisel storage - Update Resaw

[OPJ]

Those hand cut dovetails are looking very nice, Andy. It's also good to see someone else using those Veritas 'squares' for marking out. I really like how you can quickly make a simple reference mark onto the end grain which guarrentees accuracy when squaring across.

I don't have a project for the competition myself, but incidentaly, I began my first attempt at proper dovetailing earlier today - and I can tell you, it took me long enough just to mark it all out! :shock:

I've already cut one of the treads for my stool and I have to say I'm very pleased with the results so far - even though there's an awfully long way still to go!! I bought an 8" Footprint pad saw from D&M last year, brilliant.

Andy, did you scribe the lines with a knife before cutting?

 

[Anonymous]

Lovely DT work Andy

 

[Offcut]

First time in hard wood eh! They look great. That veritas thingy me bob looks a good wee tool

Andy

 

[dedee]

Who needs a bandsaw?

I have been somewhat apprehensive about resawing this board into door panels but after trimming the ends and cutting in half it was still long enough for two spares if I cocked it up so I thought I'd give it a go.

With the blade at it's highest I was left without about 2" to cut by hand.

I started with the ryoba but found it difficult to keep straight.

So out came Bertha, I have never used this saw before and I am sure it could do with a sharpen but it cut through this oak without trouble and in a straight line.

A quick smooth and this is the result. The medullar rays are as distinct on the left panel but do not show up in this photo.

This took about 2 hours and I worked up quite sweat removing the inevitable ridges and wayward hand saw cuts but I am pleased with the result.

Just the door frames, chisel holder hinge support doodah and the curve to do and 24 days left. Oh and the finishing.

Andy

 

[AndyG]

Andy, that looks great. Nothing like a good bit of bookmatching. Especially on something like a nice bit of oak.
Andy

 

[Offcut]

The photo of sawing the oak in half looks familiar - one of my least liked jobs.
Always worried that the blade grabs the wood and throws it back at me.
:shock:
These days I have taken to cutting the board into two or three lengths and then passing them thought the saw and re gluing. I loose about 2.5mm due to the blade thickness but most of the time it's hard to see the cut.

Looks like you hand planed the raised material away. I always find that it takes ages and I can't get it as flat as the P/T, possibly my method is wrong.
Nice work so far.
Andy

 

[Chris Knight]

Andy,
I am glad that the resawing went well - also that the rays are there as well - it is difficult to be sure if they will match in such a situation, they sometimes just disappear.

The dovetails look great BTW

 

[bugbear]

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Only after cutting the end of my nose did I remember I had a dozuki - a lot safer and stiffer I should have used it from the start.
The other problem with both these saws was the thickness of the kerf. Too narrow to use my coping saw for waste removal.
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Not so; 2 altenatives exists for you; either a fretsaw blade, held in a jewellers saw frames (where the blade IS small enough) or a "Y" cut with a coping saw.

The "redundant" vertical cut with the coping saw goes fast.

http://www2.gol.com/users/nhavens/htmlfile/dt3-e.html

BugBear

 

[dedee]

Bugbear you are quite right or course,
in the parallel universe that is my workshop nearly everything I have ever read/learnt read tends to get forgotton as soon as I smell sawdust.

Another reason I regret chopping out so much waste is the tendonitis that I still have in my right arm :x

Andy

 

[Alf]

Not so

Have I wandered into Hand Tools in error? :shock: 8-[ :lol: The point was made earlier, fwiw...

Cheers, Alf