Very nice!
I'm with you on there. I hate the router; I think it's one of the worst power tools for me. Are you planning on gluing up the panel and cutting it in one piece or shaping each board individually? You say you have a jigsaw; if speed is more important than the process, I'd go with that and tidy up with a spokeshave/rasp. If you have more time, then I'll add another vote for Jacob and Adam's suggestion.
Me too. I hate them (but they do have their uses!)
Up to 1/2" a mortice is probably quicker with a trad OBM but only if you know how to use it. If not then it's a wasted chisel!
Helped by crazy sharpening tricks with Excalibur apparently.
Yes, I will glue all the boards together, then draw a circle and cut around the circle and then finish up with the spokeshave.
I understand the hand tool approach. Good for you! Let us know how it goes. Is that the Stumpy Nubs' design for a sawbench? I saw something similar on one of his videos recently and really liked the concept.
You have a classic English design in your post.This one is different. I want to be able to use a single bench for shorter boards and have a slot in the middle so that both the good piece and offcut are supported. I do not know if the English design can be used separately.
I think that the design was not developed by Stumpy Nubs, he is just one of many people, who adopted it. For example, design by Tom Fidgen is also interesting, but I do not like the upper rails, because I would certainly cut into one sooner or later.
Thanks rogxwhit, I will do it that way. I will try the no.4 plane, and in case I will not handle it well, I can still use spokeshave.I'm late in and might have missed reading some posts. To do with the rounding - the blank having been glued up to width from solid boards? - just use anything that you have to hand as seems appropriate! But once the blank's roughed out by any means, I'd be using handplanes to get down to the circular line - more heft in the hand than a spokeshave, but effective on both long grain and end grain as you round the circle. Only necessary to gauge the stroke direction to the grain direction!
Of course a spokeshave would work - generally I prefer to use one on the pull stroke with arms stretched out - I seem to have more power and control that way. The arms are in tension and the upper body is doing most of the work, which seems more natural / easy / comfortable ...
My feeling is that the weight of a handplane confers a certain momentum to the stroke that smooths out the effort.
The work, of course, is held vertically in a vice and rotated as the work proceeds ...
I draw a line and both ends of the line should be in the gap (like 1/3 of the gap is on the cut side and 2/3 on the waste side). I want to make gap 30 mm wide, so I will have enough space to saw next to the line on the waste side and still not cut into the top board of the saw bench. I will make holdfast holes, so I will hold the work with holdfasts if possible. It would prevent the work from moving ( should be more reliable than kneeling on the board). Also clamps could be used, if holdfasts will overreach the work.
I have sold no.5 and I have no.6 instead, which is way too big, for this purpose, I think.Yes I meant to say, a no.4 or a no.5. The no.5 being heavier has the greater momentum in the cut, but is light enough to still be wieldy (the opposite of unwieldy!). And I might prefer it.
I will. but I do not think that I will start the build sooner than in October, November. Now I fored myself to have a rest from the workshop until 1st of September, as I was spending too much time in the workshop to finish some previous projects and I do not want to burn out. Then I will build 2 saw benchces, probably too by hand only and then I will start the round dining table with a single drawer. I am now thinking about the proper design, that I will like.
It's like a good deal of the modern woodwork stuff, on sharpening and so many other things - it sort of makes sense but it was never a problem in the first place and the older ways are much easier, but sometimes less obvious.
