Paul Chapman
Established Member
As Rob and Mike have been steaming ahead with WIP pictures of their entries, I thought I'd better pull my finger out and post of few of my pictures.
My entry is going to be a round table in oak. I don't have any machinery, so most of my work will be done with hand tools, with the use of a couple of hand-held power tools when it's better to use them.
This is how far I've got
That pile of oak started off as a few rough sawn boards (no pictures I'm afraid) and I've been experimenting with ways of reducing it to size with hand tools in the most efficient way. I started off ripping the boards in half along their length as I want to alternate the boards and joint them. For this I used my old Elu hand-held circular saw
I don't have any pictures of this process (it was done before the competition was announced) but I clamped the wood to the bench using Veritas bench dogs and rigged up a board to guide the saw's large MDF sub-base. Because of the thickness of the boards I cut them through from both sides.
Planing rough sawn oak is quite hard work :shock: :shock: so I've been experimenting with various planes and setting them up to plane sawn hard wood effectively. Planes set up for finishing work are simply no good for dealing with rough, sawn wood. I now use these three planes for initial preparation work
They are my old Records #7 and #5 1/2 and my "Frampton Special" which I bought from Alf. They all have a fairly steep camber ground on the blades like this
So they are working like scrub/jack planes. The mouths of the Records have been opened up a bit so they easily pass thick shavings. The blades are the original Record thin blades with the original cap irons and the blade on the "Frampton Special" (which does not have a cap iron) is quite thin. Despite this they work well (scrub-type planes normally have thick blades) and have been dealing with reducing the oak to a presentable state quite effectively.
To get a steep bevel on the blades, I ground them on my old Elu grinder. This is a high-speed grinder which I hate using on blades as it can easily burn them (must get a Tormek when I can afford it). I rigged up a piece of MDF to swivel on the blade grinding holder, and clamped the blades to that
This is my set-up for honing. For steep cambers I've recently started using the Veritas Mk 2 guide with cambered roller. Once you get used to it, I find it very fast and it produces a very good result.
I then polish the blades on a leather strop with jewellers rouge and Vaseline
You can see your face in the blades when I've finished with them
On the Records I set the cap irons a fair way back from the edge as you don't really need a cap iron for scrub type work
Still a long way to go - I'll post more pictures as I go.
Cheers :wink:
Paul
My entry is going to be a round table in oak. I don't have any machinery, so most of my work will be done with hand tools, with the use of a couple of hand-held power tools when it's better to use them.
This is how far I've got
That pile of oak started off as a few rough sawn boards (no pictures I'm afraid) and I've been experimenting with ways of reducing it to size with hand tools in the most efficient way. I started off ripping the boards in half along their length as I want to alternate the boards and joint them. For this I used my old Elu hand-held circular saw
I don't have any pictures of this process (it was done before the competition was announced) but I clamped the wood to the bench using Veritas bench dogs and rigged up a board to guide the saw's large MDF sub-base. Because of the thickness of the boards I cut them through from both sides.
Planing rough sawn oak is quite hard work :shock: :shock: so I've been experimenting with various planes and setting them up to plane sawn hard wood effectively. Planes set up for finishing work are simply no good for dealing with rough, sawn wood. I now use these three planes for initial preparation work
They are my old Records #7 and #5 1/2 and my "Frampton Special" which I bought from Alf. They all have a fairly steep camber ground on the blades like this
So they are working like scrub/jack planes. The mouths of the Records have been opened up a bit so they easily pass thick shavings. The blades are the original Record thin blades with the original cap irons and the blade on the "Frampton Special" (which does not have a cap iron) is quite thin. Despite this they work well (scrub-type planes normally have thick blades) and have been dealing with reducing the oak to a presentable state quite effectively.
To get a steep bevel on the blades, I ground them on my old Elu grinder. This is a high-speed grinder which I hate using on blades as it can easily burn them (must get a Tormek when I can afford it). I rigged up a piece of MDF to swivel on the blade grinding holder, and clamped the blades to that
This is my set-up for honing. For steep cambers I've recently started using the Veritas Mk 2 guide with cambered roller. Once you get used to it, I find it very fast and it produces a very good result.
I then polish the blades on a leather strop with jewellers rouge and Vaseline
You can see your face in the blades when I've finished with them
On the Records I set the cap irons a fair way back from the edge as you don't really need a cap iron for scrub type work
Still a long way to go - I'll post more pictures as I go.
Cheers :wink:
Paul
