I really love my shop space .. especially in the morning sunshine. Its a small space, but its mine. And on a beautiful Pacific Northwest day its even better with the door open.
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Shafer Museum
Today we visited the Shafer Museum which features the machines used in the early 1900’s to do all kinds of stuff out here in the west. Most of the machines on display were used for mining. But, of course, they also need woodworking tools. Here’s a few shots of the things we found.
A drill press, of course.
The longest jointer plane I’ve ever seen.
And then there were the “portable saws”.
Making plywood
Doh!
I didn’t know that Veritas was going to do this! I already have a tongue and groove plane.
Very cool otherwise.
Veritas® Tongue-and-Groove Accessories for Plow Plane
I’m trying to decide if I’d ever need to cut a 1/2″ groove.
Microscope view of planing – Thanks Wilbur Pan
Video – with Translation
Microscopic View
This phenomenal video of a microscopic view of what happens when a plane blade cuts wood was created by Professor Yasunori Kawai and Honorary Professor Chutaro Kato at Yamagata University, as part of their research in the role of cap irons in planing. This segment shows a plane blade without a cap iron, planing with the grain, then against the grain, and finally taking a thinner shaving against the grain.
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