Fleam, Bowsaws, History and Faith

I just this week read a post about fleam over on Popular Woodworking. Aparently Colonial Williamsberg does not put fleam on their saws, since there is no evidence of fleam on saws in Colonial America.

This got me to thinking, Tage Frid, an expert among experts, liked to use a ripsaw for cutting dovetails across […]

November 13th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Injustice, Metalworking, Speculation, Tool Making, Tools, Woodworking | 3 comments

Bent Bowsaw Blade

Here is an amazing tool that I have not seen before, I learned about it at Full Chisel.

And here at Popular Woodworking is an example of it in use.

What it does, is cut a sharp angle and keep cutting. Rather amazing really.

This is one of my first attempts. Nothing much to […]

November 11th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Tools | One comment

Sharpening Tools, Part 5

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. […]

October 16th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Sharpening, Tool Making, Tutorials, Woodworking | 4 comments

Sharpening Tools, Part 4

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 […]

October 15th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Sharpening, Tools, Tutorials, Woodworking | Leave a comment

Sharpening Tools, Part 3

The Gritty Details

Here is a table of the relative grit sizes of the different standards used. CAMI is the American Standard, and for a long time is was the main standard. The European standard, FEPA, is more precise, and so FEPA graded sandpaper tends to work faster than CAMI. JIS is used for Japanese […]

October 10th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Sharpening, Tools, Tutorials, Woodworking | 4 comments
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