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For now, at least, I'm using hand planes to shape the spars. Pretty much every how-to video you'll see on spars shows the use of a power plane (perhaps after a band saw has roughed out the shape.) Well, I don't have a power plane (although one could be had at the tool library), but I also rather like the notion of shaping these pieces by hand. Hand planes are quiet.
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A couple months ago, I wrote a post that included an explanation of a honing method using a board secured vertically in a vise as an aid to honing gouges and chisels. I don't know what to call it. Honing ledger? Sharpening shelf? I'll go with alliteration. Anyway, it allows the gouge to be slid...
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Another year has passed. As is my heathen wont, I went to bed early last night, stone sober and well hydrated, and hit the shop early this morning. I like to begin each year on my own terms. And then ride out the downhill trajectory from there. In advance of my regular January vacation, I've...
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Back in March 2020 my office closed and told everyone we were working from home for the indefinite future. Now four and a half years later ...
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