Thread: Opinionated = Good (Round 6)

Originally Posted by pmcgee

Not even Paul Sellers this time.
David Savage.

but plenty of opinion too, which we like, right?
(eg "Clenton cutting gauge which is nice but just silly")

Not sure that he isn't too far from the truth there ..... imvho of course.

Not sure the date ... some years ago I guess.
Evaluating some Veritas BD planes ... http://www.finefurnituremaker.com/pu...es_article.htm

and everything else ... http://www.finefurnituremaker.com/pu...se_article.htm



Articles online here ... http://www.finefurnituremaker.com/pu...front_page.htm

I dug into my library, and pulled out "Woodworker"s to check out his articles. I happened to have July 1991 ... the first one ... which is online here: http://www.finefurnituremaker.com/pu...g_1_part_1.htm

but also December 1995 ... that starts "It was with great sadness that I learned of the collapse of David Savage's business."
I haven't read it or the 21 others yet ... but I'm guessing that one wouldn't be on the website.

DS on sharpening ... and a very 80s video ...

http://www.finefurnituremaker.com/pu..._13_part_1.htm

"Sharpen keen, sharpen wet, Sharpenset."

Can't help but agree with some of his diatribe. In particular, we all have a tendency to acquire more tools than we really need, and his recommendations for a full kit of bench planes as essentially one long one, one short one, and one middling, has appeal. Pretty much what I got by with quite happily, until I went a little silly and started acquiring more than I really need (& making them!).

I have also done a full-circle on super-hard blade steels over the last few years. I think if you insist on working with the hardest of our hardwoods with hand tools, you need all the help you can get, but if you have the choice of woods equivalent to the species David Savage would usually use, O1 type steels have a lot to recommend them. Of the various blades in various types of steel and degrees of hardness I own, my Hock blades stand out as being the best compromise of them all. They are the easiest to hone to an excellent edge, yet retain a sweet cut for a reasonable time on most woods I work with. I'm starting to wish all my tools were made from the same stuff...

Cheers,