mitre saw

Sox Boxes

Woodworking seems to have helped me be better organized .. or maybe just it made me have OCD? Anyway, this was a fun little project.

I used a story stick to make sure that lay out is consistent.

Cutting to length and mitering the joints.

Shooting the edges.

Clamp up.

Glue up.

Miter keys installed.

Alder sock boxes

Organized soxs! 🙂

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.

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Mitre Box Complete

After putting thing back together, here’s how it turned out. Simple and sturdy.

And the cuts turned out pretty well, too.

More pictures after the fold.

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A tale of two saws

As you know, I’ve been working on restoring and sharpening a mitre box saw that I picked up.While I was working on it, I also got a chance to put together my Wenzloff rip saw. Here’s how the handle started.

And here are the saws together. One made in 2012 and one made around 1920. One walnut and one curly apple.

Mike Wenzloff has a great pictorial on how to shape a saw handle here: Shaping a Handle.

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.