Square Holes

[RogerP]

The big risk I guess is blowing out the narrow bridge when cutting the holes with a chisel as you say WB.

Here's a thought triggered by all this talk of square holes. I wonder if the Fein Multimaster mightn't be a good way to open up the basic square hole?

Or to get even less traditional. What if a person was to silver solder the blade of chisel to one of the long narrow toothed cutters to make something like a powered paring chisel?

Has anybody ever tried anything like this?

I've completed the subject of my original question but all these ideas are great for experimenting in the future.

 

[TobyB]

Macintosh certainly made interesting looking chairs, but I'm not completely convinced about his "brilliance" as a designer of chairs ... as whilst they look good they often are everything but comfortable to sit on ... as surely that is the function of a chair and should be part of the design, not just the look of them. I've seen a lot of his originals, and tried a number of repro's, and they are often a poor height, don't have lumbar curves or angles, or very low backs at a level where they dig in. Another poor feature of their design is that they weren't very strong - that's why so few originals are around - too fragile to survive. So ... a man with ideas for sure ... but not sure about his chair designs as furniture ...

 

[andersonec]

Scroll saw ???

 

[RogerP]

Scroll saw ???

As I said, many posts back ... "I ended up using my ancient Cowells jigsaw to cut them as accurately as possible then cleaning up, against a straight-edge, with a chisel ...

http://www.cowells.com/jigsaw.htm

 

[barkwindjammer]

I also saw a Roy Underwood episode where he demonstrated a hand 'twirly thing' that cut square holes

Well not holes exactly, a cutlers tool called a "passer drill"-fast forward to the 20min mark to see Roy and 'an assistant' doing a classic comedy sketch that maybe should have had the Benny Hill tune as accompaniment :shock:

http://video.unctv.org/video/1427672420/