engineer one
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hi guys been away from my black box doing some physical work, and learning more new things.
helped out a tradesman friend recently by sharpening some chisels and apron plane blades on my tormek for him. not sure about the protocols, but can we slag off brands? well here goes. he had about 8 Marples chisels of different ages, including brand new. the difference in sharpening quality was awesome the older ones took an edge more easily, and according to him have lasted longer. is it true that some of our old brand names have really gone down hill recently.
anyway i had bought some old stock dutch chisels from NOOITGEDAGT, some months ago after they had been taken over by American Tool, and i let my mate have a couple of those, swedish steel and all, and he has raved about them, tormek sharpened and all.
why do manufactures at the lower end of the market think we will put up with any old tat, and that people do not talk to each other. Marples i understand say that nothing has changed but results don't lie.
i have been fixing a bunch of skirting, mdf, and although it looks good, i would like to improve my techiniques, any bright and useful ideas?
i have a dewalt 708, and can thus cut compound angles, but the biggest problem seems to be that you cannot cut the 170 mm skirting vertically you have to use the compound head, at which point you have (sorry I have) a problem with determining the length to cut the angles.
so any bright ideas as to how you can set out your angled lengths to get the cuts in the correct place?
also since english houses have walls that are not at right angles, what about the best way to get the inside angled pieces connecting, does anyone now do angled interesections, or do you cheat and do one piece at right angles and then cut the other piece to fit over it, if so how do you make it work and best way to cut the shapes say torus.
i used gripfill and a nail gun boy how did people do it before these latest materials and tools?? Not directly sharpening i kow, but i found that my chisels were of great use when getting the angles to match. the dutch chisels worked well cutting mdf and held their edge for a long time.
anyone got an idea about the best angle for paring mdf 15degrees say, or nearer 20?
now after the bore of standing up and knealing i hope to do some bench work again soon.
all the best
paul
helped out a tradesman friend recently by sharpening some chisels and apron plane blades on my tormek for him. not sure about the protocols, but can we slag off brands? well here goes. he had about 8 Marples chisels of different ages, including brand new. the difference in sharpening quality was awesome the older ones took an edge more easily, and according to him have lasted longer. is it true that some of our old brand names have really gone down hill recently.
anyway i had bought some old stock dutch chisels from NOOITGEDAGT, some months ago after they had been taken over by American Tool, and i let my mate have a couple of those, swedish steel and all, and he has raved about them, tormek sharpened and all.
why do manufactures at the lower end of the market think we will put up with any old tat, and that people do not talk to each other. Marples i understand say that nothing has changed but results don't lie.
i have been fixing a bunch of skirting, mdf, and although it looks good, i would like to improve my techiniques, any bright and useful ideas?
i have a dewalt 708, and can thus cut compound angles, but the biggest problem seems to be that you cannot cut the 170 mm skirting vertically you have to use the compound head, at which point you have (sorry I have) a problem with determining the length to cut the angles.
so any bright ideas as to how you can set out your angled lengths to get the cuts in the correct place?
also since english houses have walls that are not at right angles, what about the best way to get the inside angled pieces connecting, does anyone now do angled interesections, or do you cheat and do one piece at right angles and then cut the other piece to fit over it, if so how do you make it work and best way to cut the shapes say torus.
i used gripfill and a nail gun boy how did people do it before these latest materials and tools?? Not directly sharpening i kow, but i found that my chisels were of great use when getting the angles to match. the dutch chisels worked well cutting mdf and held their edge for a long time.
anyone got an idea about the best angle for paring mdf 15degrees say, or nearer 20?
now after the bore of standing up and knealing i hope to do some bench work again soon.
all the best
paul