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They’re all wasted …

Well at least the tails are.

I also used my newly acquired knowledge from my Handtool Essentials class to tune up the Skew Rabbet Plane. Man, someone needs to do a video on that one. First time set up is pretty tricky, but now it works wonderfully.

So here’s what I did to tune up the skewed rabbet plane:
1. Sight down the bottom of the plane and line the blade up with only a small bit of the blade showing. The blade should be proud of the the body by about 1/32″ so that the fibers don’t push back and mess up the path of the plane (Chris talks about this here.)

2. Make sure the lever cap is snugged but not too tight.

3. Adjust the small blade set screws in the side of the body to keep the blade from moving side to side. It may make a lot of sense to take a quick peek at the instructions for the plane at this point.

4. Now … since the blade is poking out slightly proud of the body, you need to line up the nicker with the proud blade. I (and Chris) use the a small straight edge to line these up. The nicker can be moved by unscrewing the front fence rod and get a tiny screw driver to move it. I actually use my Silver Sharpie to color the blade so I can see it.

So in theroy, when this is all done, the plane should work beautifully, but it took a lot more going back and forth between the steps. Oy!

I’ve also been rearranging the shop. I pushed the workbench up against the wall. I wanted it to be closer to the new tool cabinet which will hand on the wall to the left of the bench. I’m also converting my current cabinet to a most used hand tools set up (it had mostly power tool stuff in it before).

Wow, this is going to be a big cabinet

I lined up the pieces prior to joinery and removing the door frames from the glued up panels. I realized this is going to be a really big cabinet now that I see it. Hope it doesn’t pull the wall down once I get all the tools in. 🙂

Summer interuptions over

So we journeyed to Manzanita, Oregon and then traveled up to Port Townsend School of Woodworking for a .. woodworking class, of course. This was a Handtool Intensives classand crammed full of information.

There was some crazy lookin’ dude there trying to teach us how the French used their workbenches as shooting boards. He looked familiar, but I couldn’t quite place him.

It was an awesome class and much fun was had. I have at least a few stories that will pay for beer anytime I want to threaten to tell them. In addition to learning hand tool techniques, we also made the English layout square, which I didn’t quite finish. More pictures of that when it’s done.

Oh, and I discovered an new t-shirt collection when in PT. And I so almost bought this for that crazy lookin’ dude.

Oh .. and there’s a woodworking one as well. ;~D

All milled and ready to go ..

Unfortunately, the next few weeks I have various summer time “interruptions”, so it might be slow going from here on out .. slower than normal anyway.