This is how my dream #woodworking shop looks like. One single workbench for #HandToolWoodworking, lots of space around it, lots of light, wood stove and comfy chair to bridge to the time when the glue dries. Lots of time to do relaxing, fulfilling work.
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
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.
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.
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…
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 🙈)
Why is it that there are good sales on woodworking tools when i have exhausted my tool budget? 
Daniel Bohrer
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