rafezetter":d3mvd7nf said:
That looks do able, its an automatic version of Ed bray's box. I think thats my next project. I'm actually spending more time making jigs and tools than the boxes I want to make. But its all the same hobby I suppose.
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That looks do able, its an automatic version of Ed bray's box. I think thats my next project. I'm actually spending more time making jigs and tools than the boxes I want to make. But its all the same hobby I suppose.
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sunnybob":3er1p8i8 said:
I think the jigmaking is all part and parcel of woodworking, and beneficial too - the moxon vice I made taught me how to plane something FLAT and with coplanar faces. A much older contraption I made that had wooden sliding guide runners taught me that wood moves more that you think and to allow for that in the design or the damn thing will swell in winter and get stuck so tight I had to use a hammer and verbal encouragement, and not gently either.
So far as a novice woodworker (and beleive me I've only recently started to feel I can use that title and not feel like an imposter!) the only advice I feel confident to give is that novice woodworking is more about adapting to what the wood is doing than the other way round; and once you start to learn what affects what and how by experience, and then learning how to anticipate / counteract that, then you'll spend less time "overcoming" as it were and more time "doing" which will make the whole thing worth it.
Apprentices in woodworking both now and in days of yore started off very slowly indeed, so you should accept that while many things learned in metalworking may have some bearing on woodworking, the material itself is totally different and should be approached from a different perspective. The thing you must remember with wood is it's a living thing - even after hundreds of years it can do what you don't want it to. Metal on the other hand, you cut it flat and it stays flat, whatever the weather.
Stick with it - I think with a metalworking background, combining the two, as many others do - like novice toolmakers, can give stunning results.
Here's a video I made on the same subject a year or so ago. I have since made a longer one for longer stock which takes shims of various thicknesses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O32Jfg0YpAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O32Jfg0YpAM
