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  0 Thread: Edge planing technique issue
Post: RE: Edge planing technique issue
Good show. Using Bandit's sound advice, having your front hand in a loose fist, the front of the plane nipped between thumb on top and curled fingers below as the fence, there are two ways you can tru...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 8 486 04-19-2024, 04:25 AM
  0 Thread: Interesting counterpoint on Titebond (I) vs. Hide Glue
Post: RE: Interesting counterpoint on Titebond (I) vs. H...
Just so Cliff. I also wouldn't use TB on a stressed joint where creep could be an issue (instruments travel and regularly get subjected to less than ideal heat and humidity - it's just their lot in li...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 11 978 03-31-2024, 12:43 PM
  0 Thread: 20" Rip saw wanted
Post: RE: 20" Rip saw wanted
Since you're looking for a proper saw, you will have to learn to sharpen one sooner rather than later, so look for a cheap cross cut saw on your favourite junk site or in local junk shops or garage sa...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 10 863 01-30-2024, 01:54 PM
  0 Thread: Should I buy this?
Post: RE: Should I buy this?
Plus a 2101. The ultimate cordless drill with a chuck that'll handle any bit style, with an unequalled ratchet and a motor that runs on tea and biscuits (coffee and cookies that side of the pond.) FFS...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 19 2,003 01-06-2024, 11:35 AM
  0 Thread: Waterstone grit Norton vs Shapton ceramic
Post: RE: Waterstone grit Norton vs Shapton ceramic
I just use arkansas stones these days - I appreciate the low upkeep of a lilywhite and keeness of edge from a surgical black (good enough to pare hairs lengthwise, so much finer than working sharp for...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 11 797 12-30-2023, 12:42 PM
  0 Thread: Veritas version of the Record 043
Post: RE: Veritas version of the Record 043
I don't have any Veritas ploughs, just (in order from delicate to beefy) a Record 043, Record 044 and Stanley 43 (Millers patent.) If you still have ox powered arms, the stanley 43 will power through...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 12 3,138 10-18-2023, 11:42 PM
  0 Thread: Have You Ever Rounded Over an Edge Stropping?
Post: RE: Have You Ever Rounded Over an Edge Stropping?
I just use talc for stropping, more lubricant than abrasive, and little needed with light enough finishing strokes on a surgical black which maintained with nothing coarser than a lily white itself bu...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 38 6,508 10-17-2023, 07:47 PM
  0 Thread: Using a dovetail saw
Post: RE: Using a dovetail saw
Nordic Wrote: (10-15-2023, 09:58 PM) -- Glen-Drake had such an animal -- Ahah! Well remembered - afraid that was before flu scrambled my brain - no wonder I couldn't find an image.
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 34 4,429 10-16-2023, 04:15 PM
  0 Thread: Using a dovetail saw
Post: RE: Using a dovetail saw
Many, many moons ago, David Jeske (I think... nope... Glen-Drake.... vide infra) introduced a two-handled western dovetail saw... a most peculiar beast, held like a black hat with two pistols in a bad...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 34 4,429 10-15-2023, 05:39 PM
  0 Thread: Logo to use
Post: RE: Logo to use
RickW Wrote: (10-17-2018, 12:58 PM) -- Anyway, how about having your name engraved on the handle?  You certainly own it! -- Try telling that to any trader called Harrod - just because it's your name ...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 3 2,666 10-17-2018, 04:22 PM
  0 Thread: Curious about plane storage angle....
Post: RE: Curious about plane storage angle....
Admiral Wrote: (09-21-2018, 01:30 PM) -- That is another option.  A loop to secure the knobs works well -- A princely solution. Prince Albert, that is.
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 18 11,885 09-21-2018, 01:49 PM
  0 Thread: [Grandstaff] Flexy Scraper and the Saw Vise
Post: RE: [Grandstaff] Flexy Scraper and the Saw Vise
Jim Waldron Wrote: (09-03-2018, 04:10 PM) -- Well, You're right, Steve.  I went and measured mine and got 0.09" (probably 3/32" if more precise measurement were available).  Never thought of it as an...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 8 6,718 09-03-2018, 08:09 PM
  0 Thread: [Grandstaff] Flexy Scraper and the Saw Vise
Post: RE: [Grandstaff] Flexy Scraper and the Saw Vise
Jim Waldron Wrote: (09-02-2018, 01:10 PM) -- I'm not sure you'll be happy with a blade from a saw for a Stanley 80; the normal blade is rather thick, on the order of 1/8 inch or perhaps more.  The ed...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 8 6,718 09-02-2018, 07:05 PM
  0 Thread: Honing techniques?
Post: RE: Honing techniques?
Which nicely highlights why the ultimate sharp is unimportant: what matters is working sharp, which varies by tool and substrate.  To prepare a mortise chisel to the same level as a finishing tool, w...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 20 13,731 07-19-2017, 05:38 PM
  0 Thread: Floating top?
Post: RE: Floating top?
Use a long compass. http://www.homemadetools.net/homemade-long-compass
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 9 7,480 07-10-2017, 04:36 PM
  0 Thread: Rasps for Guitar Making
Post: Re: Rasps for Guitar Making
Wouldn't bother with machine cut rasps - they're a very blunt instrument and really only related to hand stitched rasps by name not action (the former abrade the surface, the latter cut it.)[br][br]So...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 7 6,258 03-19-2016, 03:23 AM
  0 Thread: Ibuprofen and Sharpening A Rant
Post: Re: Ibuprofen and Sharpening A Rant
We are talking about massive doses here - a report linked to the one cited suggests "[acute] Symptoms are unlikely after ingestion of 100 mg/kg or less, and are usually not life-threatening unless mo...
 Steve Hamlin Woodworking Hand Tools 4 4,796 03-14-2016, 10:55 PM

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