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Just completed my new coffee table...
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Joints came out nice enough that I didn't need glue or screws or anything like that
 
Made two Japanese sawhorses this weekend, not for a specific purpose, but they might come in handy for some larger size projects in the future.

They're surprisingly sturdy, was a bit worried about the straight legs of the Japanese design vs the triangle type sawhorses.

Hand tools bridle joint on top, (lazy) dominos for the other joints!

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The 26c3 parers, effectively finished. This is kind of a hard steel to work with hardening unless everything is lined up right on the chisels before they're heated, everything is done right when they're heated ( they're sensitive to overheating, so you can't just do it willynilly - nothing in the alloy to prevent grain from growing - just as is the case with white steel, and not enough manganese or chromium to make them harden properly in anything other than very fast quench oils). When everything lines up, they come out one after the other feeling the same, and it's just a matter of whether or not you have to cast one or two out of the bunch and remake due to warping.

They need a bit of hand finishing and to have the tangs sharpened and made more crisp (so they can be used to ream the hole for their own handles), but anything that risks the chisel not turning out that great is all in the past.

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testing is relatively easy thanks to an old file handle. They need to pare for a while without showing a tendency to leave any lines on the work (other than burnishing from the corners of the chisel itself).

In the US, we'd call these "english paring chisels" because of the thin cross section and the tang. They are about 1/8th thick for half of the length with the narrower chisels being slightly thicker for strength. I guess you guys would call them "paring chisels" without the English qualifier. Paring chisels weren't common in the US except for the types obviously made for patternmakers or strange really long socket chisels (I have no clue what those were used for - a long socket paring chisel is a clunky awkward item with a thin blade and a dumb short handle attached to it, and they were usually made less awkward by making the blade shorter but still referring to them as "socket paring" chisels in catalogs).
 
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With a video, like yours, the safest bet is to upload it to YouTube like this



this is the @krisscross item. It is on my channel but is set to unlisted (if you have the URL you can view it) and I will be deleting it as soon as he has fixed the upload or link.

here is another version but with audio.

again both will go soon


thank you for this, I totally forgot about youtube, even though i watch it everyday lol :)
 
Made this aluminium insert with guide blocks for the bandsaw with the help of a mate, not my idea but one I came across on Instagram but as it seemed to have merit I thought worth a try.

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Purely for straight cuts in particular deep cutting, I’m trying a type of nylon used for wear strips at the mo for the guide blocks but am thinking of trying Lignum Vitae when I get time.
 
This is my first attempt at small box making and i wanted to integrate it with Kumiko decoration. These experimental boxes are elm with maple kumiko panels. The lining on the hexagonal box is also maple; the lining on the rectangular box is cedar.

The hexagonal box lid is 'open' i.e. no backing to the kumiko panel so it could be used for pot pourri (a throw back to the 1980's). The other has is a backing to keep out the dust.

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