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A carver calls it a chisel, the rest of us call it a gouge. I guess the carver uses it more, but then we all know what a gouge is. Over on WoodTreks, Brad Ramsay is being shown using a gouge to carve with. He of course calls it a chisel. Keith Cruickshank once again has done [...] I prefer to make hexagons, but sometimes space calls for something a bit different. Here is a pretty, and inexpensive garden seat and planter. I left it unfinished to show it’s construction. Looking closely at the corner, almost all the details are clear. The vertical T structure has the side plates screwed to it, and the angled top board [...] A few odd points to clear up some common misunderstanding on tools and sharpness. The first point is, that unless you are changing the actual angle of the blade to make it a lower degree angle, you are more specifically making the blade keen. Making a blade keen does not make a weaker blade. Thing about the [...] Dubbing. We are not perfect in our methods. An ideal edge might be perfectly keen. Sadly we will rock a bit as we sharpen. at the very end we tend to rock just a smidgeon, and cause a fine dub. Now we have a bit of an issue. When we rock it back flat, the end of the blade [...] |
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