Froe Mallet

Here is a photo of the Froe Mallet I made.

Even though I had not used one on a froe, the motive for the design is obvious. A rough surface will absorb some of the womp, so you want a smooth hard wood surface. But you are going to be pounding on a […]

September 9th, 2008 | Category: Flowers, Hand Tools, Recipes, Tool Making, Tools, Woodworking | 2 comments

unpluggedshop.com is a Favorite Site of Mine!

Luke Townsley has done the brilliant work of creating an aggregation of recent articles. I had not even thought of this concept, apart from my RSS feed collection, but he kindly emailed me and let me know that Toolmaking Art has been added. What a delightful surprise.

I looked over his site, http://www.unpluggedshop.com/ and found […]

September 8th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Tools, Woodworking | One comment

Another Bad Idea

Less bad than the loose grit on the table, but still a poor one.

I figured the spit in the table would be perfect for sawing.

I had to move it a bit further out,

The cut was however way off. The angle did not help my acuracy one bit.

After sawing flat, […]

September 5th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Woodworking | One comment

Loose Grit is not always the best choice.

Here is a bad knot I decided to try grinding with loose 80 grit aluminum oxide.

I used a rough metal plate to rub and roll the grit.

It cleaned the metal plate better than it did the wood.

It did a good enough job, so I cleaned it up. Not the […]

September 3rd, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Speculation, Tools, Woodworking | 4 comments

Japanese Smoothing Plane, Part 2

Silly in a way to show a Japanese Plane that is not a smoothing plane in a smoothing plane article.

The shaving is uneven on the left side. This means the blade projects more out of the bottom on the right side than the left. For most work, this would need to be fixed.

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September 2nd, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Tutorials, Woodworking | Leave a comment
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