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Dear All,

I would like to ask if anybody has esperience with smoking wood as a stabilizing procedure. I heard this from a musical instruments maker (flute maker) who uses to smoke his rough wood...

Dear All,

I would like to ask if anybody has esperience with smoking wood as a stabilizing procedure. I heard this from a musical instruments maker (flute maker) who uses to smoke his rough wood...

Dear All,

I would like to ask if anybody has esperience with smoking wood as a stabilizing procedure. I heard this from a musical instruments maker (flute maker) who uses to smoke his rough wood...

Hallo Sebastiaan, here you have the article by Morgan. cheers

thank you for your answer! it's indeed as I imagined, that the tool's edge meets the wood more or less perpendicular to it. So generally speaking the two tools I've sketched (I hope you can...

Could anyone explain me the difference between cutting edge and scraping edge?
I read in an article of Fred Morgan about recorder making:
"the top of the windway (of the recorder) is also cut and...

Could anyone explain me the difference between cutting edge and scraping edge?
I read in an article of Fred Morgan about recorder making:
"the top of the windway (of the recorder) is also cut and...

Could anyone explain me the difference between cutting edge and scraping edge?
I read in an article of Fred Morgan about recorder making:
"the top of the windway (of the recorder) is also cut and...

Hallo everybody,

maybe somebody could help me identifing these wood carving knives. Are those some kind of Japanese carving knifes, with this kind of leather handle? is it possible to buy them...

In the meantime I bought this old float:...

Gunsmith File or Float (Tools) at Great Expectations Antiques

the curvature is good and it has teeth in both directions...I just have to make the...

Dear all, thank you for your advices! I think i will try indeed to make one myself. The most hard part would be probably to obtain the curved surface. Maybe some steel bar can be obtained with...

Dear Peter,

thank you for you answer. The floats are indeed very similar to what i'm looking for. From what i've seen the teeth of the float are often flat, while I would need something with a...

dear Sirs,

I'm interested in recorder (flute) making and for this I would need a curved tool like the one in the attached pictures. It's a traditional hand-tool, like a scraper used to scrape...

dear Sirs,

I'm interested in recorder (flute) making and for this I would need a curved tool like the one in the attached pictures. It's a traditional hand-tool, like a scraper used to scrape...

dear Sirs,

I'm interested in recorder (flute) making and for this I would need a curved tool like the one in the attached pictures. It's a traditional hand-tool, like a scraper used to scrape...

dear Sirs,

I'm interested in recorder (flute) making and for this I would need a curved tool like the one in the attached pictures. It's a traditional hand-tool, like a scraper used to scrape...