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    Look on the bright side....... the only way is up!

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    Fumbler , I reckon you need to go Up , up the walls with some storage shelving project build . Vertical storage swallows a lot of stuff . Even better is a truss construction wall to wall storage shelf . It needs welding skill though . There's another project , go learn to weld .

    Boneinspector. A bench is great . You will get there . Some people get by without such things .

    Your comment brought back a memory of one of the most incredible threads Ive ever seen about a guy, Sergy, who built a copy of a 16th C Archlute in his flat Aktobe Kazakhstan with hand tools on a stool or two and a table inside his flat. He probably had access to somebody with machinery to process some materials outside or just bought them ?

    Have a read if you like .

    Building archlute. - Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum


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    Junk? What’s that?

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    Trying to resurrect this, was fun seeing what people were working on as people don't always create threads.

    I'm working on the side panels for a saw till in Black Walnut.


    And also planing some cheap pine for some vice jaws.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bueller View Post
    Trying to resurrect this, was fun seeing what people were working on as people don't always create threads.

    I'm working on the side panels for a saw till in Black Walnut.


    And also planing some cheap pine for some vice jaws.
    Just saw this and thought that’s interesting I click on that,that I was revering too “what’s on the bench”lol

    So Bueller I can’t wait to see the saw till,done.

    Cheers Matt.

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    Thanks mate! Just figuring out a few things with the till but hope to have it finished in the next week or so.

    Been cracking on planing this pine for a face vice. Not bad, not great. Will get the #7 tuned up and sharpened in the next day or so and give the glue faces another swipe to clean things up before glue up.


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    Got the #7 up and running, little bit of a learning curve but pretty amazed at how quick it was to get all the glue faces coplanar. And I haven't touched a power tool yet!


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    On Thursday evening I decided I needed a project for the weekend, and the allure of kumiko was strong. I popped into the shed after dinner and knocked up a couple of jigs as per Mike Pekovich's method.



    Then with some spare time in Friday I attempted my first one. All in all it was a lot simpler than I had anticipated.

    Most of the time was spent with me getting the stops on the jig set correctly with lots of fine adjustments at each stage, with the actual paring of the pieces being very quick thanks to a brilliant system. It probably only took a couple of hours once my stock was prepared. I'm sure the next one will be faster.


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    Love it! Have Pekovich's book and was prepping to make the jigs when the lockdown happened. Thanks for sharing.

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    I used some left over pieces from my bench build for the jigs, and the kumiko is from a scrap of pine framing stud.

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    I make those as well, ran the design through the 'puter and then the good ole laser cutter did the rest. 9mm ply 30 seconds..
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    new/old tools on my bench, thanks to a lovely chap who is selling off a shed full due to health problems (I did suggest he sign up here and use our marketplace)
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    The double marking gauge is a Silex. Don't know anything about it but looks really cool.
    The dividers are awesome, made in America as best I can see, has both macro and micro adjust feature.

    Now will have to decide just how much restoration to do, I think NOT too much

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    This is no longer on my bench, as it was last weekend's project (it's under the bench now). I've had this blade sitting on a shelf for several months. It was given to me when someone was doing a cleanup and had no idea what they were for. I suggested a plane blade perhaps, so he gave them to me instead of sending to the bin. They are 50 and 60 mm wide respectively, so thre same as a standard #4 and #4 1/2. I have no idea what steel they are, though it is very bright (never developed a dull oxidized surface), almost like high grade stainless. Any thoughts on how to determine what it may be? Sharpening, it appears harder than my old Stanley and record irons.

    They came with a 25° hollow grind, so I imagine was intended for a bevel up plane.



    I whipped up a body with some Tasmanian Oak, with a 4 mm Spotted Gum sole to reduce wear. It has a 45° bed and 60ish° chip evacuation face (or whatever it's called). I mounted the blade bevel down.



    It works OK. My pushing hand slipped at one point though and smashed my fingers into the back of the blade, which was unfortunate. It's pretty hard to make fine adjustments, which I put down to a wedge with too severe an angle. I was able to get some good shavings, but the blade really needs to be re-ground to a higher angle if I'm using it bevel down, as it's too easily damaged as is.



    At some point I'll get motivated and make another one, but for now I've scratched that itch and have a new appreciation for my rickety old record #4 and it's almost magical blade advancement wheel.

    For now it lives with my saws because there's no place in my tool chest.


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    Two amazing chunks of steel Lance
    Would love to know what they were first intended for as I'm sure you do too. 9 mm thick, that's a fair size. Perhaps a shed maker trying to make his own planes??

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    The profile looks very similar to a bevel up plane blade, with the 45° corners, and the very shallow hollow grind. My guess is also that someone had a crack at making the blades, then lost interest, forgot about them, or died and they got disposed of at the local men's shed.

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