February 2012
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Logic
My 8 year-old son was with me at the Japanese hand tool demonstration I was doing Saturday, and was doing a good job planing a piece of mahogany with one of my planes. He has figured out how to tap the blade with a hammer to advance the blade and make lateral adjustments.
He decided that the blade was advanced too far, and needed backing out. So he flipped the plane over, and tapped on the...
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Flat Back? Good Idea? How Flat is Flat? →
This just in: crazy esoteric Japanese toolmakers not the only ones to put hollows on the back of chisels and plane blades.
Joel Moskowitz:
In traditional western tool manufacture (which isn’t practiced much these days) grinding the cutting bevel and any side bevels is done after hardening the iron. What the tool maker does is harden the iron, and then check which side has warped a little...
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Building a Roubo workbench rerun - 4
(Originally written Jan 21, 2009)
Last night I got a leg up on flattening the bottom of my benchtop. When I was gluing up the beams, I tried to align the tops of the beams as best as I could. The top side looks pretty good, but what this means is that all the misalignments show up on the bottom side of the bench. Since I’m using a Roubo design, the legs are going to be mortised directly...
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The Woodworking Show, Somerset, NJ, Feb 24-26 →
The woodworking club that I belong to, the Central Jersey Woodworkers Association, will have a booth at The Woodworking Show at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset on Feb. 24-26. Our club will be running demos throughout the weekend.
Bob Rozaieski and I will be at the CJWA booth on Saturday afternoon, so expect some East vs. West woodworking cage match action. Please stop by and say hi.
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Building a Japanese Workbench →
Speaking of Nik Brown, he did a terrific writeup for Get Woodworking Week on building Japanese style sawhorses that serve as a basis for his workbench.
I have a pair of sawhorses that are made from 2x4’s screwed into sheet metal brackets that I got from the local borg. Boy, am I embarrassed.
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Waste not, want not →
Nik Brown doesn’t know you can’t use Japanese saws on hardwoods, much less exotics like ebony.
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Building a Roubo workbench rerun - 3
(Originally written Jan. 19, 2009)
Got the last glue up done for my workbench top! Whew! Glad that’s done with. Now all I have to do is flatten it.
The last photo shows what will be the top side. It wound up being 22 1/2” wide. Final length and thickness TBD.
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the legend of lin | angry asian man →
madeoftofu:
Yes, we all watched. Yes, we’re all crazy excited.
Jeremy Lin may do the impossible — make this born-and-raised Chicago sports fan who lives in New Jersey cheer for a New York team. May Michael Jordan have mercy on my soul.
Also love this from the article:
Dare I say it, Jeremy Lin is the biggest sports story in a city that just won the effin’ Super Bowl.
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The Shellac Redemption
Prologue: Tom Iovino has come up with a great idea, Get Woodworking Week, where the internet woodworking community gets together to write articles encouraging people thinking about taking up woodworking to jump in. I initially imagined this post as a bit of shellac trivia, the sort of overly technical article that would only be of interest to woodworking geeks, but if you stay with me, I think...
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Anonymous asked: Heard your debut on Car Talk. Defying our parents -- universal.
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10 Reasons NOT to Use Liquid Hide Glue for... →
I disagree with reason #10. I use these things called paper towels that avoid this issue.
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Woodworking Media – How Do You Learn Best? →
Great observation from Bob Rozaieski on his experience learning how to do some sleight-of-hand tricks:
The simplest of tricks seem to be really complicated when they are written out in a book. However, actually seeing the sleight explained by someone who is practiced in the effect all of a sudden makes it much clearer to me. It makes my practice time that much more focussed and productive...
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