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Written by satterle on 2025-02-01 at 23:22

I stumbled upon a neat little trick for adjusting the iron in my router planer. Slip a playing card under the plane, drop the iron into the groove, and tighten. Use a piece of paper for that final shaving.

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Written by satterle on 2025-01-10 at 20:36

Slowly moving ahead with the frame project. Pics: the basic assembly set up; a frame in strap clamps - the plywood template is the size of the paintings; clamping on slats to attach the painting to the frame; and a stand with frames in various stages.

They're finished with two coats of iron acetate stain and two coats of water poly mixed 2 parts poly 1 part water.

Two challenges. 1) having issues with a rotator cuff 2) shop is so small, can't do anything else!

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Written by satterle on 2024-10-19 at 01:43

Blades came in. Bow saw finished.

Clearly going to take a bit of time to get used to it!

Question: Why the long handled knobs for the blade holder? I've never seen anyone use them while sawing.

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Written by satterle on 2024-10-18 at 13:33

Bow saw progress. Waiting for the blades to arrive from Highland Woodworking. Ordered the 600mm rip / joinery 9 tpi and scroll 9 tpi along with the 700mm rip blade 5 tpi which I'll cut down. Thinking of using the cut off for a kerf plane.

Cheap construction lumber because I don't know what I'm doing and do want to waste good stuff! I carefully selected two pieces with good straight grain and then proceeded to lay out on the wrong face...

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Written by satterle on 2024-10-16 at 13:36

I got Chris Schwarz's American Peasant book and now I'm hooked on the idea of his gelatin glue.

I'm fishing for case studies and user experience. I know someone here on the #woodworking tag was using it but can't remember whom it was.

Any feedback on the gelatin glue or hide glue in general will be greatly appreciated!

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Written by satterle on 2024-10-15 at 22:13

Made a small cam clamp inspired by the small Japanese bar clamps. I think it's a winner for the small projects but still getting used to it.

I've been meaning to do this for a while because I figured out how to draw a cam with the proper geometry (and not just a circle with an offset center). I've included images of two proper cams each with a different throw.

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Written by satterle on 2024-10-12 at 17:07

Plunging ahead making a frame saw from scratch. Ignoring the advise of @frew and making the handles with extensions from scratch - a kerf and peg will capture the blade. At $18 for the hardware, these handles give me an hourly rate of about $9. And I'm not done! 😜

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Written by satterle on 2024-09-26 at 00:36

Made a new nesting saw horse out of some 2x8 scraps. It's the same height as the ones I made last year. I wasn't using them much because they're so light. Hoping to use this one as a saw bench with the old ones as outfeeds.

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Written by satterle on 2024-09-17 at 21:56

I got impatient (and I really dislike Amazon). After watching a couple of youtubes, spent the day building a strap clamp, actually a string clamp, for the block box I'm making. The all thread is 3/8" Acme rod left over from my bar clamps. String is paracord. Ended the day in glue up and diagonals were equal without any fussing! A win!

Here's the youtube I found most useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQC2iq5nmo

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