Mastodawn

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@temptoetiam/116012509589768568

J'allais faire un post dessus.

J'affute en coticule jaune des Ardennes, et j'achète chez Ardennes Coticule (le nom s'invente pas).

C'est :
- faire fonctionner une entreprise a taille humaine
- ne pas aller chercher une pierre chez les ricains ou les jap. Impact carbone
- ne pas faire tourner une usine (pierres synthétiques, diamant)
- une pierre qui part de 800 et qui peut monter à 6 000/10 000 (bon à ce niveau, ça veut plus rien dire).

J'affute mes rabots, ciseaux à bois, couteaux,... tous !

#woodworking
#Kiss
#keepItSimpleStupid
#handmade
#handtools
#handtoolwoodworking

Daniel Bohrer Dec 25

Box № 12 of #50boxes, a simple rabbeted (BE: rebated) gift box. Body from 8 mm ash, lid and bottom from 0.6 mm curly ash veneer glued to a 4 mm beech plywood core. Finished with BLO and paste wax, and the usual brass hardware.

The rabbeted construction of the body makes it easy to make a rabbet for the lid and bottom with a plough plane, as no stopped rabbets are necessary like with dovetails.

Time estimate from rough-sawn lumber to finish: about 20 hours.

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Daniel Bohrer Dec 11

Then: nibbling away very short pieces of endgrain at a time from the end of the stopped rabbet so as not to blow out that end… 🥵
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Daniel Bohrer Oct 21

Well, the dovetails looked exactly as gappy as the phrase "I haven't cut any dovetails in two years" suggests. The board was also slightly bowed, but after enough glue, enough clamps, a once-over with the peening hammer on the end grain, and flush trimming, they looked okay.

Important final step: adding chamfers.

Now I have a small tray to rest my cup on the armrest of the Ikea couch. And at least achieved one thing after a stressful day full of tech hurdles.

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Daniel Bohrer Oct 21

Dove-Tails, woo-hoo! Every-body's busy cutting… Dove-Tails, woo-hoo! 🎶

I haven't cut dovetails in … about two years, I think? Let's see how this goes…

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Daniel Bohrer Oct 18

After multiple times of wanting to use the plough plane and getting into the problem illustrated in the first picture, I finally invested two evenings and made an adjustable jig to hold slim stock for plough planing. Robert Weaving calls this a "sticking board" in his book "The Solution at Hand"; an additional nail through the planing stop to hold the stock in place is optional.
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Daniel Bohrer Sep 28

Result of yesterday's work: three hand planes with five additional holes for the shooting grip. (On the Veritas Low-Angle Smoother I was able to re-use the existing hole for the grub screw for lateral blade adjustment.)

It's much more comfortable than without the grip on all three planes (but quartersawn oak is still a pain to shoot 🙈)

#woodworking #metalworking #toolmaking #HandToolWoodworking

nobody Sep 13, 2025

Why is it that there are good sales on woodworking tools when i have exhausted my tool budget?

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Daniel Bohrer Sep 10, 2025

Whoa, I need this!

#woodworking #oldMachines #HandToolWoodworking #notReallyHandToolsButMoreLikeFootTools

(clipped from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQDEvl7afj8 )

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Daniel Bohrer Jun 13, 2025

That's what you get for watching too many of Dave Bull's woodblock carving streams: you get inspired to do some carving of your own.
So yesterday evening was spent carving some letters. At first I tried the big versions, and it took a lot of effort, especially in beech. But I shouldn't have worried, because the small version in cherry was very easy to carve, and with the ultra-sharp carving knife, I almost didn't need to apply any force at all ☺️
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