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269495 Darrell & Kathy <larchmont@s...> 2019‑12‑08 Another work-avoidance project
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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!

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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?

-- 
Darrell LaRue
Oakville ON
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
269496 Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> 2019‑12‑08 Re: Another work-avoidance project
> On Dec 8, 2019, at 4:34 PM, Darrell & Kathy  wrote:
> 
> This may get some use on the cherry project, so maybe
> I can pass it off as a prerequisite instead of work avoidance?


Why is a prerequisite necessary? 

Nice tool.

Ed Minch
269497 Erik Levin 2019‑12‑08 Re: Another work-avoidance project
Prerequ?  Work avoidance?  No... Warm up.   Quite a fine job.

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269500 "yorkshireman@y..." <yorkshireman@y...> 2019‑12‑09 Re: [SPAM?] Another work-avoidance project
Of course it’s a prerequisite.  If I were to head out to actually ‘make’
something - a real, proper, item of merit, then I’d find myself a project like
that to get myself in the zone.  No matter if it isn’t perfect, or maybe
something needs making twice so it IS perfect.  It’s getting the makers head
back on that counts.  And all the time, my planning head is busy considering how
to best make up the actual project.  Nowadays it’s called NLP, but some of us
would just say that we’ve thought it through in advance.

Yep - canny way to start in to something liek that.   I have a bow saw plan I
intend to tun into a bow saw in just that same circumstance.


Richard Wilson
YorkshiremanGaloot - in a sunny Northumbria

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