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...and the crowd went wild. I've cracked it.

Derek Cohen with his excellent tools was able to mostly tame the Tuart but with my reasonable but lower quality ones I could not hence my previous...

Hi Derek

Sorry for the late reply, was out for a long weekend :U. Thanks as always for your very kind offer. I think I understand the arrangement you have from a) my visit there when we were...

Thanks Siggy and my experience lines up with the comments all have made. I find it interesting that with the exception of Derek's vice and a picture at the English Woodworker site no other leg vice...

Thanks Derek and rustynail for you suggestions. I will be having a tensioner for clamping parallelism so a rear wheel on top of the guide is not possible as per Derek's vice. The last suggestion from...

Also looks like we are partial to bacon. Anything is better with bacon. Although Gammon comes close.

I don't post often so I am not up on the intricacies of all the settings. In forum views does...

Evening Gents

Thanks for your thoughts derekcohen and rustynail so I did some checking / experimenting today. Firstly I checked the measurements of the guide mortice on Will Myers video. It was...

Apologies to all DerekC's for creating confusion.

Thanks for the offer of the wheel. Not sure yet, I could put it under at the front but would need to cut a mortice in the chop to allow full...

No problem, It allowed me to write a better explanation (too long as I tend to do).

Thanks for replies

Thanks, i'ts always hard to describe by words. This issue of sticking jamming is before I get to clamp something. If I do ½ to say 2 turns in or out the parallel guide sticks...

Hello Woodlings,

I am getting near the end of my Moravian bench build and I have an issue with the leg vice that I would like pick your brains on.

The question is can a chop be too heavy? As...

Yes, I'm battling away but it might be down to a scraper or sanding soon. The wood is so variable that it can change in direction every few inches (in places) so I can pick a high spot get the...

Hello All

Ahh the joy of learning. I like to understand why. So taking Zac’s thought above to persevere with the original 4½ blade and cap iron, I had another look at them. They were not flat to...

Hi Zac, thanks for the blade suggestion, I'll give it the "mirror treatment" (ie look into it for those not familiar with the phrase).

I think the old 4 ½ irons are "dead" though. I understand...

Yes definitely agree re the chip breaker.

I mentioned to Derek that YT tossed up an old (Japanese) educational video called Educational Video on "Influence of the Cap-iron on Hand Plane." This is...

Sorry Derek (I am thinking David as I am typing this), my brain does that especially if I am thinking of two people at once. All fixed I hope.

Thanks again Derek and for your notes above. Here are some pics of before and after planing (with a decent prepared iron :U). These first two are a really variable bit from near a knot. Before left,...

Just a quick note to say a very big thank you to Derek for spending a couple of hours with me this afternoon. I will make a more in depth post in the next day or two. I need to digest what Derek...

Thanks for your thoughts. Sanding on a drum sander would be a great option but as the bench top weighs a bit over 60kg (I weighed the two halves before the final glue up) and the fact that a drum...

Thanks Derek, that is most generous of you. I guess I'll send a PM once I work out how. I won't bring the bench top it weighs 60+kg :oo:.

Hi All, I have finally started my Moravian workbench from some Tuart timber I obtained raw from the wood show about 5 years ago so its now seasoned. I'll post another for the workbench build when...

Thanks for your response Ian.

All of you knowledge/experience above shows up in the two "runs" I did. In this picture the one showing the end fits the nut better after the first few turns...

Great minds think alike or is it because our shops are half a garage so that a 1700's flat pack bench is the necessary solution.

I will be building my Moravian this year I hope after collecting...

I don't post often so hopefully this is OK. I Thought I might post my experience to assist others there are several threads on this threading business (sorry couldn't resist). I researched for ages...

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Hi Jovian

As Christos said maybe start a new thread as there is more than one way to do this. But to answer your question.

I used a small router (6mm) marked out the mortise (the holes /...

You can buy screw making sets (tap and die - box) from Carba-tec and the like up to 1 1/2" I think. Obviously you need the dowel that size.
Or if you want to make your own then (tap and dies...

Hi

I get carpet tape from the tape section in Big W - its only a small section with the hardware. Sometimes it is out of stock.

Its sticky but not a permanent thing (the longer its left, the...

Hello

Here's what I would do (like the design by the way).

For the vertical on the left of the pic I would use iron on edge veneer full width top to bottom. This will cover the front gaps.
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This was the simplest bit - just takes time.

I finished off the main slab joint tops with a belt sander with sanding frame. Interestingly my ancient +15 years GMC belt sander (had to replace...

Now I had my base I could get the slabs from the acclimatisation area and eye up the arrangement. See pic

O yes before I forget - To make a faux through beam appearance I used a tip I found from...

Well now the chairs were made, I could do the table- relatively simple but with a couple of challenges

Trimming and edge jointing the three slabs
Drilling 4x6" deep holes in the end grain of the...

Well before you know it (well a few months really as I was doing this after work and on weekends) the chairs were done.

As I mentioned earlier the biggest headache was gluing the backs to the...

The best thing about a prototype is you can figure out most (not all) of the issues without to much loss if it goes wrong.

Obviously I jointed and thicknessed all the timber stock to size first -...

Well as some of you will know Marri is an interesting timber. It used to be wood chip fodder a few years ago because of all the defects. Scratch that now called features. The ladies in particular...

For the trial this was the easiest part. Again watched some example / guides via you tube. Went to Clark Rubber got a square of foam (high density) cut it to shape on a base of some 17mm mdf I had...

Hopefully the posts will be a bit smaller from here, less complex stages.

So now I had all the bits. I measured each mortice and cut / sized each tenon to suit by hand. Used 40 grit sand block. ...

The third key step (for those following the ramble) in making the chairs was joining the bits using floating tenons. What I like about this techniques is that the mortices can be router cut and the...

Oops forgot to attach a pic of the thicknesser setup

To make the laminated backslats I need three plys of say about 3mm each to give about 10mm. My experiments with steaming showed that I need more clamps and a decent press. But springback was likely...

Morning all

The back slats for the prototype chair. My design required 2 of these per chair so I needed a system to make 16 mostly the same.

For those designing chairs I read somewhere that...

So now I had a leg template but I needed to get 16 all the same (+ - a bit of a mil:U). Apparently a router table was the go. Never used one of these before let alone make one - and reading as I...

Firstly thanks for all your kind words, hopefully my descriptions and tips will be of use.

The chairs had three tricky bits as far as I could see, curved back slats at 90x10mm say 650-700 long.
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Hi Wood fans Tony's back on the air.

Had to go and see the fireworks as we always do. A first this year we got wet and those on the south Perth side might have good photos with fireworks and...

So I figured the following was involved to make the chairs (what I got)

A plan / drawing (drew one up after looking at various plans and designs)
A few sticks of pine from Bunnies
Router and...

We moved house (with no garden or shed). Then Her Indoors wants a new dining suite. So we look at the shops - she wants a slab table with tall narrow back chairs, leather seats. $10K at the time. ...

Hello All

My first post, to a) say a big thanks to all others who post so we can learn and b) to give back by showing how I built the dining table and chairs in the garage in case its useful for...