Galoots
I have a new project lined up. A pair of projects!
I'm supposed to make a nice hall table and a matching
wine rack that goes underneath the table. This will be
in cherry, which I got a pile of, that has been drying in
the rack for a few years. But when I have a project like
this I invariably find other things to do whilst I dither and
delay the actual start of my project.
This time is no different. I made a tool.
Out comes the Very Large Hacksaw and a bar of bronze.
The VLH was (in a former life) a meat saw, made by R.H.
Smith back in the 19th century. Some smart Galoot espoke
about popping a hunk of metal-cutting bandsaur blade in
a meat saw frame (may have been Scott) and I found that
this was an excellent way to make big rough cuts in metal.
You got a boring old hacksaw frame with the meager 12
inch blade? It's got nuthin on this, with a 24 inch blade.
http://galootopedia.com/old-tools_wiki/images/b/bf/Big_hacksaw.jpg
A 3 inch cut in 3/8 bronze took a bit under 5 minutes.
And yes, that's my woodworking bench I was cutting that
bronze on. I've never been too fastidious about things
like this, but I hear people freaking out about it. And
besides, there is not enough room at the metal working
bench to swing that 24 inch saw.
Then it was time for a some work with the small hacksaw
and a selection of files. That huge milled-tooth file does
a fast, smooth job on the faces.
http://galootopedia.com/old-tools_wiki/images/e/e0/Milled_tooth_file.jpg
And a coarse round file wastes the bulk of the mouth area.
Fast, very fast work. Then it's down to the finer and finer files
and the ones that have safe edges for accurate inside
corners. Once the block is shaped, I drilled mounting holes
using a Stanley enclosed-gear drill. I tapped the holes for
a 10-32 thread. Time to make the stock!
http://galootopedia.com/old-tools_wiki/images/3/32/Round_file.jpg
http://galootopedia.com/old-tools_wiki/images/d/de/Mouth_block.jpg
What was the first thing that came to hand from the scrap bin?
Eastern white pine. um, nope. But under the pine was a piece of
beech. Yes! The very thing.
I resorted to the bandsaur to rough out the stock, and then
it was back to the bench to inlet the block. Lots of simple tools
involved here. Scribe, marking knife, square, chisels, and a
router plane. The blade is a bit of old saw plate I found in
with my card scrapers. I guess I had this left over from a
previous work-avoidance project.
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This may get some use on the cherry project, so maybe
I can pass it off as a prerequisite instead of work avoidance?
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Darrell LaRue
Oakville ON
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
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