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one more follow up: 2:20 in the other side of the board (this is a junk board that's flatsawn and half sap).

the edges are more like all sap and the effect is obnoxious - grippy. I made one...

summarizing times
* disston 4 1/2 point rip - 2:45 (but the best accuracy and the most physical ease)
* initial cut with frame saw and "aggresivized" teeth on stock blade: 2:45
* Cut after ????...

update on the "trials" here.

I found a rip blade for a 3 foot frame saw that I made, and that rip blade is slightly finer tooth than my 2 1/3rd tooth per inch typical in the three and four foot...

Jono - these will help you reach your goal of getting sharp tools in the near term. i think in the longer term for both purposes you may wish do everything freehand for speed.

We typically...

at some point, you want to maintain square without a fixture - it's just not practical to handle gadgets around the wood you're ripping.

I found trouble not with could i saw squarely any way...

funny enough, there is a thread scrolling down in that forum showing Chris Schwarz describing rip saw positions. I always thought he looked like he was thrashing (mack headley looks nothing like that...

I've done this one as well as the grip toward me. Of course the sitting "toward the crotch" is the one I mentioned earlier, and it is dominant if you are going to be doing a lot of hand work in the...

are you sure it's french polished and not lacquered?

I don't know anything about rejuvenation products - if I had a french polished piano that was looking a little dull, I'd freshen the french...

if it doesn't seem to wear well or needs refreshing, you basically have unlimited times that you can do it.

Sort of the difference between the modern mindset (a finish that lasts forever) and the...

one more follow up before I order 1095 coil and just waste money on this whole project:
* two more cuts over lunch. I'm starting to get a feel for what puts less stress on the shoulders. Some of...

speed test 2 - 5/4 cherry, full thickness (rough) dry, not the hardware store stuff where they tell you it was 5/4 when it was wet, so 1.1" is the rough thickness on the rack.

37" long cut,...

I took a 10 minute break from some intensive data work and cut five or six pieces off of my cherry test board with the frame saw. The kerf is thinner. To the extent that it is, I think it has the...

tried two cuts with this thing over lunch - one with a 1/2" bandsaw blade or 3/8, whatever is in it - that was fast but obviously wandered to an unusable for daily work state x 10.

I usually cut...

I roughed this out this morning with some scrap cherry that I have laying around.

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Put the bolts through...

They're not really going to get what you're doing on SMC. Sometimes you want the arks to cut faster without having to go to another type of stone - at least not below a fine india.

There is a...

I'd say it's mid to late 1800s just as a guess. All of my English saws still have split nuts and a stamped plate and those nice heavy medallions.

I've had gobs of synthetic stones, and would never give up a set of arkansas stones with loose abrasive to go with it for any of them. That includes naniwa's best and shapton's best.

Really...

I think you'll find that loose finish grit is the only you'll tolerate unless you come across an IM 313. You can put silicon carbide grit on a fine india in an IM313 and then eliminate it pretty...

stylize it a little and start a revolution!!

Holding onto the bottom of the handle for a lot of work will rub my hands a little but, but I have a bunch of the cheap "mechanic's gloves" around the...

next thing to do is take the operation to a similar physical form with the disston saw. the only rub is...the rub. raking the disston saw from the handle puts your hands ahead of the blade and I...

there are demonstrations of a pitsaw of that type from williamsburg here in the states. I haven't seen a frame pitsaw. since the pitsaw is used vertically with someone pulling at the bottom, maybe it...

There's something else he's doing that I do and have seen at least a dozen comments about "no real woodworker doing it". But that comment is always made by someone who has no clue about planing...

my device earlier would not allow me to give a link with a time stamp.
Caspar Labarre Beelden Werk.avi - YouTube

Watch the shaving coming out of the plane. Everything I figured out in isolation,...

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you may not be surprised to find that I've made (from scratch) one of these frame saws -I made a test saw, which is shown here, hand filed the blade and then made a...

Caspar Labarre Beelden Werk.avi - YouTube

He's planing with the chipbreaker near the end.

Yes! Thanks for finding that. Now I want to do it. Notice how much more authority he has with the saw.

I should probably add if you could make a fixture or a frame saw like I describe for ripping - i'll bet there are examples out there with the handle extended beyond the blade, you could really haul...

I've used a frame saw like this doing the same thing, just to try to find something easier than other somethings. I found it pretty miserable because one hand is above the blade and the other one...

the metallic fixtures are not affixed to the frame - they are moved around as needed and then held in place by blade tension. if you look at the saw, you'll see the dark stains where the fixtures...

This may have been true for non-technical subjects. For the technical pictures, the drawings were generally careful to display things accurately and perhaps emphasize certain things that are not...

M2 has some vanadium carbides in it. Silicon carbide will probably partially cut it, but aluminum oxide will not. If efficiency is important along with fineness combined, diamonds are necessary.
...

OK, here's a test you can do that will split the stones into two categories.
1) King Gold - if you have the king gold, it will leave a fairly bright polish on hardened steel. you won't have to...

Courtesy of the weak yen, I see the kitayama stone is now the equivalent of $36.54 in japan, including a consumption tax and the cost of shipping (as in, total price to your door there). Someone...

king's 4k and 6k stones had S-1 or S-3 on them depending maybe on size? at least that's what I can recall.

the 8000 grit stone that became sort of the retailer standard here for a while had a G...

sure, but I don't know if they do any better than they would on any other piece of mild steel. Or better yet, good quality blanchard ground cast.

however, I remember bill tindall mentioning this...

tumbling media is something I'm less familiar with. I like to get lapidary media because those folks just can't tolerate a good even scratch pattern.

I would imagine that shapton would have a...

Oh yeah, anything in loose grit that's 3 or 4 micron is going to be a world away from a fine arkansas stone in finish. the edge is just rowed and ragged. I tried 5 micron loose diamonds at one point...

there's a reason it doesn't matter - we plane the top center off of a convex edge. it's not sprung. if the board is convex on the edge, you can feel the plane changing because it cannot maintain the...

by the way, i've used 220 grit SC on the fine india, I guess I'd forgotten, but it's at the corner of the shelf right above my bench - i use it when "manufacturing" chisels but have changed my...

The same is true for me - the solvents in great quantity - stoddard and naphtha were bad enough. The odd smelling transitional solvents are worse and some of them need an aromatic solvent to thin...

What you're attempting to explain is how a plane will plane a flat piece of wood and keep it flat.

What we're doing dimensioning is planing a piece of wood that's not flat to flat. whatever does...

40 inches long for the board. Edge 2" wide. The shavings are even thickness end to end. I'll have to make a few more to get the thickness as I have already cleaned up the last group with a leaf...

The entire board is flat until the last four or five inches. Flat to a starrett edge.

You mention of changing cut thicknesses aren't there, the board is just flat but falls off as the toe of the...

the lufkin rule in one of my 12" combination squares is 53 hardness. A pretty solid number - a little harder than most saws, but not hard enough that it'd be brittle.

i'd imagine most of the blades aren't fully hard and if they're some kind of mid hardness, they'd still be blankable.

probably would be a bear to harden them because they'd move and then you'd...

Amber varnishes and hard copals that are short oil are definitely long gone. They were replaced by much cheaper synthetic lacquers and enamels. What remains for boat varnishes now as soft varnishes...

If anything, your description would leave the toe of my board high as the hands on the back are probably in the last 5 inches. Double the length of your board, double the thickness and increase the...

Actually, here is my procedure - it is toe down and tail down at the ends of the cuts, but through the middle, the cut is even. It's not so much a habit that i'm doing something uneven, it's that the...

well, the spiers plane is steel but it scraped without issue. I honed at slightly less aggressive than 90 degrees on the scraper and things seemed to go OK, but if it's mild steel, it could be just...

Not discouraging anyone from scraping, by the way. I think I will probably when making an infill plane, scrape the sole flat. When making a plane for myself, I will scrape it and then lap it until I...