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woodworking with hand tools woodworking with hand tools happy new year january 2 2011 8 comments to all of you my new year is going to become an interesting one i m quite sure about that for now i don t have much time for woodworking unfortunately but that should get better in a few months well maybe we will see this weekend i finally managed to spend some time in the shop at temperatures well below zero working with steel tools is not really a pleasure when they re freezing cold since i don t have time for a proper project at the moment i figured that i could just as well venture my first steps in dovetail land the result of which you see on the right as if you hadn t already seen first dovetail attempts often enough i m not completely unhappy with the joint but without doubt there s a lot of room for improvement i m really puzzled about the size of the gaps given the amount of force i e the mallet it took to drive the parts together i was closely following the tails first approach described in detail by tom fidgen in his book at least i now have kind of an idea about the workflow and the critical parts in particular i especially liked the method for laying out the tail spacing and size with a divider that was easy fun and resulted in precise markings i m less happy with the precision of my sawing but part of it is contributed by my leg vise which i haven t presented here yet the board that i used for the vise has warped since i installed it and requires a touch up with a selection of planes consequently the vise definitely lacks precision and doesn t grip firmly enough for precise sawing i can t even saw precisely enough when the workpiece is properly secured but that s a different problem altogether and there s definitely some practising to be done with the chiseling at least i got my hands on wood again and a lot of fun it was too so much for now thanks for reading posted in joinery holdfasts forge your own november 7 2010 4 comments that has been a rather long period without new posts i sincerely apologize but i have been busy with a lot of non woodworking stuff also a cradle has been added to the to build list my new workbench hasn t seen much progress in the last three months however i am now the proud owner of two brand new holdfasts forged by me myself and i again i took a class at the haus der eigenarbeit where i previously took the handtool woodworking class this time it was an introduction to forging or blacksmithing i m not 100 sure about the right word here basically we spent a day in a blacksmith s shop under the guidance of marten schmid my holdfasts were produced from a piece of round 18 mm diameter that is slightly less than 3 4 in mystery steel forging a holdfast actually is not too difficult even i managed to do it with satisfying results provided you have access to a massive anvil a forge and some hammers that is first tests show that the holdfasts hold remarkably well and because they are forged they hopefully won t break and now please excuse me in the last months billions of blog posts waiting to be read by me have accumulated i hope i will have more time for woodworking in the next months some projects are waiting thanks for reading posted in shop tools getting rid of the schwarz syndrome july 19 2010 5 comments as previously mentioned one of the few remedies for the schwarz syndrome is building a workbench this weekend i have worked hard at going through therapy and have made some progress continue reading getting rid of the schwarz syndrome posted in joinery sawing shop tools tags mortise sawing tenon workbench the schwarz syndrome july 12 2010 5 comments recently the schwarz syndrome has been described in the literature it seems to be a highly contagious disease which spreads rapidly through the internet woodworking community the main pathways of infection seem to be the blog of the schwarz and his book other infections are reported from sources like work in progess reports in woodworking forums and blogs such as here and here among the symptoms are the inexplicable longing to build an old fashioned workbench manic internet researches long contemplations of the question english vs french a manic lust for softwoods such as southern yellow pine as well as profound dissatisfaction with the current workbench situation of the affected woodworker in severe cases of the schwarz syndrome it is reported that the patient wishes to build the aforementioned workbench entirely with handtools continue reading the schwarz syndrome posted in joinery sawing shop tags mortise tenon workbench marking gauge july 5 2010 4 comments as previously discussed at wood n bits woodworkers have a need for several marking gauges since i owned only one and figured that my poor woodworking skills might somehow be related to this lack of measuring devices i decided to build this particularly nice one hand adjustable example continue reading marking gauge posted in uncategorized handtool woodworking class project finished june 28 2010 8 comments at last the stool project that once began in the handtool woodworking class is finished i finally fixed the top to the base and applied the last coat of finish bees wax on top of three coats of blo for now i m happy with the result see yourself accidentally this picture graciously hides some of the mistakes that i made it barely hints at the single leg with the taper on the outside and you can t look under the top so you can t notice the gap between the left leg and the top the second picture accentuates the wrongly tapered leg but hides the splintering on the end grain side of the top note to self take care when shooting end grain and finally a close up view of the multi coloured top this was joined from some scraps the bicolor shavings from the last post came from here this shot doesn t hide any mistakes in fact the joining was much easier than i feared i wonder if anyone can guess the three different woods i used here the winner will be allowed to buy himself some ice cream in conclusion i did learn a lot from this little project there are some things that i would do different next time as well as some things that i d avoid this was the first time that i worked with hardwood as in hard wood and that s really quite different from the pine or fir projects that i ve done before much better though of course the stool is not a design masterpiece for example i d build the stretchers much thinner next time but then that was not the focus of this project and it s pretty anyway so much for this project i m not quite sure what i m going to build next there are some entries on my to do list but i haven t decided yet so far thanks for reading and remember to guess the wood the top is made of posted in uncategorized handtool woodworking class update june 7 2010 1 comment i noticed that it has been quite a while since my last post sorry about that i have been busy with a lot of non woodworking stuff now i have finally found some shop time again and i almost finished the project from the woodworking class as you might remember this project is a basic stool with mortise and tenon base on the last evening in the woodworking class i glued up the base and managed to get it almost square for the top i collected a lot of scraps cherry walnut and oak and joined them together i closely followed the steps in my woodworking bible the tage frid book basically i used a shooting board and joined consecutive edges with top and bottom down respectively to minimize gaps this worked out a lot better and easier as i expected and feared and after glueing i couldn t find any gaps the bicolor shavings in the picture might give you a vague impression of the finished top in fact it looks much better than i ever expected pretty aren t they for the finish i planed and scraped the whole thing and added two coats of boiled linseed oil the blo brought out the colors really nicely especially the walnut got a very deep shimmer my english leaves me here pictures of the whole thing as you know by now in the next post which will be written when the blo is dry one question that i still haven t decided on is how to fix the top to the base i think i ll just use two dowels through the stretchers to allow for some wood movement although that won t matter much considering the scale of this project so far thanks for reading posted in uncategorized tags handplaning handtool woodworking class april 20 2010 2 comments some time ago i signed up for a handtool only woodworking class here so far it s been taking place four times and one more time is to come it somehow sweetened the start into the week since it is on monday evening please don t note that gap on the top of the right stretcher continue reading handtool woodworking class posted in joinery tags mortise sawing tenon greenwood digressions april 5 2010 leave a comment i m back from a busy week at our weekend home today it s image and comment only day hint the titles of the images appear when the mouse hovers over it update cool wordpress now offers slideshows so sit back and enjoy this slideshow requires javascript continue reading greenwood digressions posted in greenwood shoulder plane progress march 24 2010 2 comments meanwhile i have started to work on the shoulder plane kit so far i haven t made much progress and as you expected already i don t have work in progress pictures yet as usual i promise to deliver soon in this case i have a good reason because i m not working in my shop or at home but at work after hours of course and i didn t bring a camera with me continue reading shoulder plane progress posted in tools tags shoulder plane kit previous entries pages about blog stats 60 795 hits recent posts happy new year holdfasts forge your own getting rid of the schwarz syndrome the schwarz syndrome marking gauge categories categories select category greenwood joinery sawing shop tools uncategorized recent comments tom thomas on getting started jay 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