Woodworking seems to have helped me be better organized .. or maybe just it made me have OCD? Anyway, this was a fun little project.
Category: mitre saw
Making a picture frame with hand planes
I poked around the internet to find information on how to make a picture frame with hand tools. So except for some information that Shannon Roger provided in his Hand Tool School, I wasn’t really able to find anything. Everyone seems to be making frame with powered routers. Que post.
Here’s the final product with Boiled Linseed Oil finish.
I used my newly sharpened mitre box saw to cut mitres (thanks Matt Cianci) and my excellent picture frame shooting board (thanks Rob Hanson) for this frame. More pictures below the fold.
Mitre Box Complete
A tale of two saws
Saw Handle Clean Up
Before:
After (with better lighting):
I followed this procedure:
Refinish a Saw Tote
I varied slightly from this procedure by using wet dry 400 grit sand paper with the BLO. I haven’t put shellac on yet, but will post when I get the whole saw put back together.