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Re: A long time ago, in a basement far, far away - Jameel Abraham - 11-15-2009
I use ash for making pegs with the L-N plate. Riving will get you a straight piece, but to speed the process up (especially when you need a lot of them for a bench) I cull the straightest-grained pieces from the stack (pretty easy with ash), split off one edge, joint and then saw my pieces from that edge. You don't have to rive every piece if the grain is straight across the boards. This is how lots of musical instrument wood is sawn. The bench is coming along nicely, Andy.
Re: A long time ago, in a basement far, far away - Peter Tremblay - 11-15-2009
Great tip.
Thanks Jameel
Peter
Re: A long time ago, in a basement far, far away - shavingCanuck - 11-25-2009
So I attached the back slab to the bench base just using the two tenons at the top of the legs (the wirling demon of death and dispair was used and scares the s$%t out of me on occasion), I'll attach some pictures and explain why later as I'm currently at work.
I've also glued on the dog strip after screwing up another one when my bandsaw decided to seriously drift, which had never happened to me before but I think one of the guides was pushing on the blade when I adjusted the height... oh well, what's another $50 piece of wood... fun...
As a result of those two incidents I ended up hollowing out the cavity for the "slide" over the last couple of days using a handsaw, chisel and gouge. Someone mentioned a drunk beaver here earlier and that's pretty much what the thing looks like currently but my father just purchased me a #3 straight gouge and #5 bent gouge to try to clean it up a bit (early Christmas gifts
).So, after much ado here is my question. how the heck do you sharpen these puppies? I've got the bevel all shiny and mirror like doing the freehand, rotating shimmy but I have absolutely no idea how to sharpen the other side properly. He also picked me up a 4k slip stone but I don't know if I'm using it properly or just scraping the hell out of the stone.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, video of people doing it would also help.
Thanks
Andy
Re: A long time ago, in a basement far, far away - JimReed@Tallahassee - 11-25-2009
shavingCanuck said:
So, after much ado here is my question. how the heck do you sharpen these puppie? I've got the bevel all shiny and mirror like doing the freehand, rotating shimmy but I have absolutely no idea how to sharpen the other side properly. He also picked me up a 4k slip stone but I don't know if I'm using it properly or just scraping the hell out of the stone.
This is how I sharpen the inside of gouges. Find something round the same size or slightly smaller. For small gouges, drill rod or screwdriver bodies work well. Large dowels and PVC pipe work for larger items. You may have to use your lathe or a H&R plane to make something round. Anyway, once you find your base, wrap it with the appropriate grit of sandpaper. I start with 220 aluminum oxide. Use a piston like action and rotate while you do it. Unless the chisel is in rough shape, this step takes less than a minute. Move up through higher grits. Good luck.
Re: A long time ago, in a basement far, far away - shavingCanuck - 11-25-2009
I was wondering if that is the way I would have to go. Now I have to find something the correct diameter. If I'm not using sandpaper how do the water cones seem to work? and how do you guys go about holding the gouge and stone? both in hand? one clamped?
As you can tell I've never even carved my initials in a stall door so I'm a little new to it. As such are there any good videos, books or courses that people would suggest.
Thanks
Andy
Re: A long time ago, in a basement far, far away - Clay Dowling - 11-25-2009
Love the maple-leaf detail on the vise slide there. Although I'd probably have to make it a winged wheel, owing to local loyalties.
Re: A long time ago, in a basement far, far away - shavingCanuck - 11-25-2009
Don't get it twisted now! I'm no Toronto Maple Leafs fan, although the wife and her family are
. I'll stick with the Senators for now but I used to be a big Oilers fan when I lived there.Believe it or not I'm more of an NFL guy then hockey guy (great, now I'm going to get kicked out of my own country
). Unfortunately my 49ers haven't been doing well for the last couple of years, hopefully Iron Mike will straighten them out. I haven't decided yet but I usually take tomorrow off to watch the games even without the requisite turkey, although I might have to PVR them this year.Happy Thanksgiving
Andy
Re: A long time ago, in a basement far, far away - shavingCanuck - 11-25-2009
Actually, on the Maple Leaf tilt, I wonder how a blue bench would've looked
Re: A long time ago, in a basement far, far away - Charles Jackson III - 11-27-2009
Great tread!
Re: A long time ago, in a basement far, far away - shavingCanuck - 11-30-2009
Still no recent pics as I've been slacking a bit but the wife demands the bench be done by the end of the weekend as my honey-do list is growing
I've basically finished the end cap for the wagon vice portion of the build but I've got two/three things left to do on it and have some questions:
1. Cut the dovetail in the front apron. How would you guys go about cutting this? If it was something small I wouldn't have an issue using the bandsaw but trying to manuever this puppy around makes me a little nervous. I could cut it by hand but standing it up isn't an option and I don't have any saw benches at the moment. I guess I could lay it on top of the back half of the bench and climb up on top. Any other thoughts or suggestions?
2. The bread board tenons. I know Jameel just did one side of the front slab and I'm tempted to follow suit. I can do all four ends if necessary I just don't really think it's a requirement. What do you guys think? Am I really in danger of a 4" top cupping?
3. finish? I picked up some BLO, is there something else that you guys would recommend? How many coats?
I'll try to get some pics up in the next day or two.
Thanks
Andy