Recent content by Eshmiel

The brace in the attached pics was found in a junk shop years ago and has been employed to drill holes in work benches and, lately, down the grain of chunks of log to make a starting-hole or three to gouge out in creating shrink pots. It functions as it should apart from having a bodged pin...

There are a lot of colour-questions about modern woodwork. It amazes me how US woodworkers in particular have been convinced that they need 13 different gels, goos, liquids, stains and so forth to clag on their wood for it to be "finished". Why do so many feel that natural wood colours are...

That needs to fork off. But perhaps they make it that way so you have to hike?

A top pick to lop a dick! For cutting hardwood, softwood, laminates and fingers orf.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion! Mind, I find myself avoiding various kinds of mirror in case I see something nastier than what can be seen in...

Laziness is one of my few (ha ha) vices. However, another is a certain meanness with the wallet, although I have devolved the function to my wife, who doesn't let me near my wallet unless I make a long and water tight case for opening it. But I digress. I too have a small Trend vac used for...

Is it a Crocs advert in disguise? Vids like these always seem a little desperate to me. If "content generation" is now a major means of making a living for many, I suppose they have to try anything/everything, including ironic vids about the fashions and fads - a sort of new fashion & fad...

Sharpening workflow? I'm almost tempted to do a Jacob! :-) Do you mean "method" - a rather less involved (and perhaps less rigid) approach than deriving a whole workflow? On the other hand, sharpening can be a hobby all by itself. Been there and still doing that. This is an intriguing...

You'd better inform Chris Pye and several other master carvers then - they've all been doing it wrong and should adopt the Jacob, er, "method". Eshmiel said: - the flat bevel acts as a jig in the same way as the flat back of a paring chisel acts as a jig - to keep the edge at a very shallow...

I can't follow that. Can you draw a diagram of what you mean? "Rounded" bevel. Do you mean "convex"? The reason for wanting a flat bevel to the carving knife edge is the same reason that a flat bevel all the way to the edge is wanted in a carving chisel or gouge - the flat bevel acts as a...

Apologies for my bad syntax. I meant only that Sawstops do come with riving knives. And yes, they always have. But many still seem to use them without a guard, using only their hands to guide the workpiece - going by vids and magazine articles/pictures.

You'll discover that the rounded bevels will tend to force you to make cuts at too steep an angle to take very thin shavings from many surfaces. BTW, you'll also find it advantageous to have one knife longer than the other and one with a very sharp point and both a curved edge and a straight...

I do spring mine but only after I've first made them both dead straight with me jointer plane. A few passes over varying lengths of the central parts with a fine-set No 4 plane makes the small gap. I prefer also to plane two boards together to make the matching straight edges, to cancel out any...

If you can be bothered to trawl the US forums you'll find a few reports. The owners generally host them is a gush of praise for the device, which is understandable. Not just a finger saved but also a whacking great bill to mend it. Sometimes they describe how they came to put a finger on the...

Perfeek! Thank you very much - I'll acquire a pair of those to have a go at. I'll need to borrow a lathe-use somewhere as I have no room for one. ...... Well ...... maybe a small benchtopper that can live in a cupboard when not in use. (Glances over shoulder to see if wife is spying on me...