Getting ready to build.

[JustinTyson]

I've had a project on my mind for several years, now. I've never had the tools to tackle it, until now. (Actually, for the better part of the last year, I didn't even have a workshop, but mercifully that problem has been solved)

In the last month, I built this:


And used it to make this:


And I made the handle for this:


And I bought this:


Now, I don't have any more excuses...

[jasfrank]

Nice tapered reamer. I see the hole in the oak by it. Can that tool actually cut its own hole or is it just a reamer?

[JustinTyson]

The tapered reamer doesn't bore a hole - it just makes it tapered. That's actually sassafras, not oak

[Scott W]

I guess I am stupid but what is the 2nd pic?

you making a chair?

[JustinTyson]

You're not stupid, the post was intentionally ambiguous

The second tool is a rounding plane, AKA tenon cutter. I wrote about building it here, if you're interested. It's for cutting tenons to match the tapered mortises made by the tapered reamer.

And yep, I'm making a chair. A Windsor chair, to be exact. Peter Galbert has finally gotten to me.

[Scoony]

Nice, I finally finished my first chair this past summer and look forward to building a set next spring.

The rounding plane is actually not hard to build. I took a slightly different approach, but the results are the same. I was using a tappered reamer bit which has a steeper angle, but will be making a reamer like yours and a new rounding plane before starting on anymore chairs.

I also made a compass plane that for me works better then an adze.

By the time you get to the last few spindles, you will be very good with a spoke shave and draw knife.

[JustinTyson]

Scoony said:

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Nice, I finally finished my first chair this past summer and look forward to building a set next spring.

The rounding plane is actually not hard to build. I took a slightly different approach, but the results are the same. I was using a tappered reamer bit which has a steeper angle, but will be making a reamer like yours and a new rounding plane before starting on anymore chairs.

I also made a compass plane that for me works better then an adze.

By the time you get to the last few spindles, you will be very good with a spoke shave and draw knife.

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I think of a compass plane as more of a finishing tool, like a travisher. The adze is for roughing it out. Did you do the whole seat hollowing with the compass plane?

I will definitely get some practice with the drawknife and spokeshave, but those are two tools that are never too far from my hand anyway!

[Scoony]

Well my adze is small. Basically a hammer head forged into an adze. Blacksmith was selling them on ebay a few years ago. Not sure if he is still at it. I can get some wood removal with it, then I switch to the compass plane which works more like a scrub plane so I get fast stock removal with it. Definitely not a finishing tool, at least mine is not. I even used it on my Maloof rocker seat for stock removal.

[Steve Friedman]

Welcome back! Love that adze. And your new blog is excellent.

Steve

[JustinTyson]

Thanks Steve! Good to be back. Good to have a shop again too, after going a year without. It would have driven me crazy to sit around talking woodworking with you guys with no shop to do any woodworking, so I was in voluntary extradition. Thanks for the good word on the blog as well - I hope to keep things interesting over there.

The adze was a lot of fun to build- aside from spoons, I don't get to use branches very often I'm really happy with the way it turned out.