J_SAMa
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Just out of curiosity, how are those holes made? they seem way to small to be chiseled like mortises, and boring obviously can't give you square holes. Are they burned into the wood a la fitting tang chisel handles?
AndyT":9bhfhmhx said:There is an excellent little booklet on "Wooden Spokeshaves" published by the Hawley Collection Trust and available from them for only £6.00 here http://www.hawleytoolcollection.com/index.php?sheffield-tool=papers-and-publications.
It shows a lot of detail about spokeshaves were made, including the use of patterns and special tools to set in the brass parts. But it doesn't answer this question! (It does say that irons were individually fitted to the stocks, so both would be marked with a Roman numeral to identify the pairs.)
My own guess is that a round hole drilled to the right size would give a nice tight fit to the square tangs without needing to be chiselled or filed, but that's only my guess.
tobytools":dk2hnvgd said:AndyT":dk2hnvgd said:There is an excellent little booklet on "Wooden Spokeshaves" published by the Hawley Collection Trust and available from them for only £6.00 here http://www.hawleytoolcollection.com/index.php?sheffield-tool=papers-and-publications.
It shows a lot of detail about spokeshaves were made, including the use of patterns and special tools to set in the brass parts. But it doesn't answer this question! (It does say that irons were individually fitted to the stocks, so both would be marked with a Roman numeral to identify the pairs.)
My own guess is that a round hole drilled to the right size would give a nice tight fit to the square tangs without needing to be chiselled or filed, but that's only my guess.
I'm ordering mine tonight thanks Andy
TT
woodiedonald":6ia5prdw said:Maybe they might have been drilled first then burned out, heat up the tangs from the forging process and stick it in and heat the heat burn the wood to shape, and from looking inside my own it looks slightly darker than the rest of the wood but I'm not sure if that's just from age. Only speculating here!
Cheers,
Donald
Cheshirechappie":1rtemtpb said:Anybody ever found any tiny square files with straight-across float-like teeth?
DonJohnson":yf0l15mx said:Cheshirechappie":yf0l15mx said:Anybody ever found any tiny square files with straight-across float-like teeth?
In metalworking, such a tool is called a 'broach' - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broaching_(metalworking)
If one were making lots of spokeshaves, the it would be worth obtaining a (tapered ?) broach specifically for this task.
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