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so it starts to shimmy a bit this is fast enough anyway i m satisfied with this so i m going to move on to the next step if i were going to experiment further i would try different pitches to determine experimentally what angle works best i would also use my spokeshave to shape the blades into a better airfoil which would produce modest improvement via reduced drag i think this method works pretty well with hand tools it s definitely a challenge to drill the holes accurately and i might try to come up with some sort of fixture if i make more hubs a hole saw works with a brace or an electric drill posted by andy at 9 28 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 27 2018 holiday gifts 2018 each year we try to give friends and family a small handmade item along with an oregon product this year we decided on hazelnuts or filberts the us is the third largest producer of filberts after turkey and italy and virtually all of the us crop is grown in oregon i wanted to help the local farmers out because hazelnuts are caught up in the trade war that meant that some sort of small dish or box would be a nice item to accompany the hazelnuts but i have grown tired of making and giving dovetailed boxes one day i got one of my infamous brainstorms i went out to the firewood pile and selected nice looking douglas fir pieces with a wide live edge then i split them out with an ax so they would be approximately 3 deep and 6 8 wide cut about 12 long this would form the outside of a box i jointed the bottoms flat but left the split edges and long sides as is to create the bowl i hogged out a lot of the waste with a large forstner bit which gave me nice rounded corners then i used a chisel and gouge to remove the rest of the waste with a wiped on finish they re done these obviously don t suit everyone s taste but i like them they are quick easy and fun to make so a dozen isn t a big deal i have come to dislike the commercialism of holiday gift giving and think a handmade item better reflects the spirit of the season however modest i made this for you is special posted by andy at 7 27 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 21 2018 videos from some interesting craftsmen this post is going to be a little different because i want to share some videos from some other craftsman one of which is woodworking and one isn t the first is the engels coach shop in montana he restores or reproduces heavy horse drawn wagons makes wooden wheels etc right now he is making very heavy wheels for some spanish cannons from puerto rico they shipped him a large pallet of mahogany and he is making every piece of them from scratch using hand tools and machines many of which he designed and made himself it is absolutely fascinating to see how he does it here is one of the videos in the series about installing the felloes he is a very straightforward guy who shows you how he does his work step by step the accuracy he achieves with basic tools and machines is amazing to me the next one isn t woodworking but instead is by a retired guy in upstate new york near where i grew up whose retirement hobby is to recreate a line powered machine shop driven by steam here is a video in a series about restoring a vintage steam engine this is a subject about which i know almost nothing but it is fascinating to me and i really look forward to his videos i hope you enjoy these as much as i do posted by andy at 9 10 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 13 2018 windmills i have seen a number of videos about whirligigs recently and they got me interested in creating something similar i m especially interested in the windmill portion of them from what i have seen whirligig makers start by making a hub with slots cut in it to hold the blades some say that 35 degrees is the best angle so that is what i used i wanted 8 blades so the slots are narrowly spaced to make it i cut out an octagon used my bandsaw to define the slots and then chiseled out the waste i chose long thin blades thin for looks and long for more surface area presented to the wind here s what the propeller looks like it is 22 in diameter and way overbuilt the blades are 5 16 thick which makes it heavy and therefore difficult to start because of inertia i m going for a traditional windmill look rather than a whirligig so that s why it is much larger than normal because of the weight i needed a stout shaft so i cut off the head of a 1 4 stainless steel bolt and epoxied it into the back of the windmill the propeller shaft rides in some little bronze bearings i found before someone else says it this isn t an efficient windmill it s primarily decorative and designed to look good to my eye this was confirmed when i tested it with a fan the blades are quite thin because of it s mass the propeller takes a while to spool up but this inertia also keeps it running at a fairly constant speed in a variable wind it runs surprisingly true and doesn t seem to be grossly out of balance the bearings are new and i don t want to lubricate them until after i apply finish so i suspect it will turn more freely in use this windmill would be great if i lived on the coast but i d like to come up with one that would turn in a light wind it needs to be lighter and the blades can be thinner by half wider blades would be better because they have more lift but i like the look of the thin blades i did some research and it appears that the 35 degree pitch isn t right because the blades stall in light wind surprising to me at least is that scientific research shows an angle more like 5 degrees to be optimal the latter presents a whopping 22 more frontal area to the wind this creates a construction issue because the adjacent slots won t clear so some new way of making the hub is necessary a 4 bladed windmill wouldn t have this problem but i like the look of 8 blades i have an idea although this is starting to feel like my stool saga in my defense i did end up with a unique design that works very well posted by andy at 10 25 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 7 2018 stickley sideboard part 5 when i put the stickley sideboard aside last spring the carcase was done and i only had the drawers left to make with the arrival of fall it was time to get back at it as i wrote in the last post the drawers went well and it was time for finish i made this for my son and his wife and they prefer dark stains they re not my cup of tea but the original was dark so i didn t object dark stains are tough because they show every imperfection and tend not to absorb evenly at least that s my experience pre stain conditioner is recommended but i like the color differences that result from not using it so i didn t here s the result building this piece only increased my respect for stickley and ellis there are many small details that i didn t appreciate until i realized how they contribute to both form and function posted by andy at 6 37 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels stickley sideboard friday november 2 2018 trombones and dovetails when i was in high school i was a very good trombonist but not a great one i had plenty of talent and a good instrument but i didn t practice consistently take the summer off and it feels like starting all over in the fall i have this same problem with dovetails i don t cut dovetails often enough that i retain muscle memory and top of mind feel for what i am doing and i find it very annoying to spend time practicing every time i want to i was facing exactly that issue as i prepared to make the drawers for the stickley sideboard by coincidence youtube recommended a video to me about a new dovetail guide it looked intriguing and is only 35 so i decided to give it a try when it arrived i decided to cut a quick practice joint to get a feel for it and to my surprise it came out great this is straight off the saw and as close to a 5 minute dovetail as i ll ever get the guide is made from urethane like skateboard wheels etc and has two embedded magnets on each side there is one side for tails two for pins and one for right angle cuts it is extremely fast to cut dovetails this way because all you do is mark the baseline and add some tick marks on the top for the layout as you can see it is translucent and that helps to position it accurately the cuts for the half pins were dead on with no trimming at all one thing that is a bit unusual is that unless you are ambidextrous you end up cutting tails from both sides of the board but that didn t end up being a problem i tried it with both western and japanese saws and found the former much better the magnets are strong enough that my japanese saw wouldn t work without applying downward pressure on the handle so is it a good idea to use a guide certainly if you are a beginner it is i m not but i still found it very useful for two reasons it s very fast for those of us who would otherwise mark out the pins and tails second if you haven t cut dovetails in a while it is a very good way to re establish muscle memory and remember those little things that make a difference i found myself sawing with a very light touch if you are cutting a lot of dovetails i think you could use this for awhile and then cut the rest by hand i am not bothered by using a guide and i think i will keep using it the guide doesn t work for half blind pins but i still found it useful for making the drawers because you can cut out the tails very quickly and precisely and of course you can use it for the dovetails on the rear of the drawer they came out well i know that using guides is frowned upon by some and i respect their position but i don t feel that way a plane is a guided blade a shooting board is a guide posted by andy at 10 47 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 22 2018 portable workbench v 2 0 after we finished building out the cargo trailer as a camping trailer i had one day before we were to leave on our field trial and i knew i wanted to do some woodworking dissatisfied with the portable workbench i made last year i wanted to come up with an improved version for a larger portable bench there is no doubt in my mind that the moravian workbench is the way to go my failed attempt of last year helped me to better appreciate what a truly great design it is watch this brief video of will myers assembling it in 60 seconds very stable too amazing not something i could make in a day though and somewhat larger than i had in mind i had just one day to build something compact that could be clamped to a picnic table this isn t as farfetched as it may sound you may remember chris schwarz s milkman s workbench from a few years ago although it isn t tall enough and i didn t want any vises on mine most picnic tables are 30 high i like to work at 36 so i had in mind something about 6 tall and around 16 x36 standing at my nicholson workbench thinking about this it struck me that a scaled down version of it without legs would fill the bill nicely i had some dry 2x6s on hand so that s what i made as you can see it fastens to the picnic table with c clamps although there a variety of ways to clamp it down with the clock ticking i wondered what to do about a vise i knew that i wanted a moxon to sit on top just as i use at home but i wanted a considerably smaller version i had an old one that used f clamps sitting on the shelf so the first thing i did was cut it down to 16 i didn t want to use f clamps but looking around the shop i had a brainstorm possibly because i had seen it somewhere before but i can t remember i picked up a wooden handscrew sawed the screws in half in the middle where the threads change direction then cut the jaw on either side of the barrel nuts these became the twin screws for my vise using the barrel nuts allows the jaws to skew and it was very fast to construct it works much better than i expected though it does only accommodate workpieces up to 6 4 and it is 12 between the screws but that s enough for a portable vise in my opinion of course it can be used directly on the picnic table if i choose but i generally like to use it on top of the bench so i can stand straight when i saw i didn t have a lot of time left and i still had to figure out what to do about tool storage so i salvaged the drawer from the previous version of the portable workbench and used some scrap pieces of plywood from the trailer project to make a case for it the three pieces stow away for travel in a compact space all in all it works quite well and i m not sure i could have done a lot better in one day posted by andy at 7 02 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday october 19 2018 fall is in the air my summer hiatus was longer than usual this year for a variety of reasons the primary reason is that i took on a major woodworking project that i didn t think would be of interest here specifically we purchased a cargo trailer and built it out as a camping trailer complete with a queen size bed a throne room and lots of storage surprisingly it turned out better than expected i was making it up as i went along and has attracted a lot of interest there are a fair number of baby boomers who like us camped in tents for years but are ready to expend a little less effort and be a little more comfortable without going into a full fledged rv i have been reading the blogs from the unplugged website regularly and commenting sometimes to me it appears that woodworking blogs are in decline as there are many fewer posts than i used to read many of those that remain are commercial that s too bad as i really enjoy reading about what other amateur woodworkers are doing of course i am in no position to complain as i haven t been posting either my pageviews had been trending down and i wasn t getting a lot of comments which along with being preoccupied with other pursuits were factors finally i just didn t feel like i had a lot to share that would be of interest i m ready to get back at it during our camping trips i watched a lot of woodworking videos on youtube and noticed that a video attracts astronomically more views than a blog of comparable quality does it s probably a sign of the times people get their information these days from watching video rather than reading in some cases i think there is a good reason for that i have picked up valuable tips from watching these videos that the author doesn t even mention i just notice something they do and think it s a good idea most times though it just seems like there is a much bigger audience for video than written material dunno i don t want to make videos so i am going to stick with blogging and i hope you do too i think we ca...
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