I bought a jack plane at a local garage sale for $5. It was quite rusty, but the rust seemed to be all on the surface. A day in a vinegar batch, followed by a wire brush and then some WD-40 and steel wool proved this to be the case: It cleaned up quite nicely Continue reading
Making a pair of Christopher Schwarz’s sawbenches has been on my woodworking to-do list for a while. Unlike Schwarz, I don’t think I could build two like his in a “long afternoon”. Continue reading
I sharpened about 15 chisels today. Continue reading
As I wrote before, the mouth on the old jointer plane I got from mia_mcdavid‘s aunt was too large. Continue reading
Yesterday I finished the spoon that I started at colgaffneyis event in Perham:
It is ready to use and packed for our next event with colgaffneyis.
Today I had that most mundane of a homeowner’s tasks: Replacing board on the front walkway:
It still called for measuring, sawing (done with a hand saw), drilling (with an eggbeater drill), driving screws (with a bit brace), and hammering nails. Doing this also showed that my knees were recovering from yesterday’s bike ride.
Included because of the description and pictures of sharpening auger bits.
When mia_mcdavid visited her relatives in Chisholm last week she brought home an old jointer plane that had been in the family: Continue reading
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 