He's looking very happy! You take good care of your cat!
softsoupcat
joined 1 year ago
Great looking jet!
I just finished Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke and it was great!
I haven't watched Paul's long video on sharpening. Just the short 10 minute one. I really liked Rob Cosman's video on it. He showed how you can put your file throught a piece of wood to help you keep your file held at a certain angle. Then he drew some 60 degree marks on his saw vise. Having both of those helpers seems like it makes the process fool proof
Looks great. Going to be so nice to have and use
Not stupid at all. Makes total sense a really bad experience would put you off it.
I had a lot of fun doing all the research to figure out what to buy. Your best bet is to pick a project, then break that project down into parts, then buy the tools you need to do the first few parts of the project. It's a good way to get you woodworking asap for the least amount of money and keep you from wasting too much money if you lose interest. You can buy the tools for the next part of the project when you get to it
I just used 150 grit sandpaper then I rubbed some wax all over it to keep it from rusting again.
In the video from my other comment the guy does 150 grit, 400, 800, 1200 or something like that. I didn't do a ton of sanding on the other side. Planning to come back and do a little more work on it. There's some cool stuff etched on the other side about Disston and more saw info. I've got some more research to do for figuring out how to remove the rust while preserving the writing.
I used renaissance wax, but after seeing fine woodworking post on preventing corrosion i might go with using the CRC stuff they picked. (https://www.finewoodworking.com/2012/05/31/the-best-rust-preventers need to sign up to get the PDF 😭)
I've been looking into and reading about it. It looks pretty easy to make your own shave horse. I bought some super cheap draw knives and need to learn how to sharpen. I think all the green woodworking and chair making stuff is really neat. I just don't really love the way most staked furniture looks.
After researching the medallion on the handle I found out it's a 1940s Disston D8 26" 10TPI crosscut saw
I tried to follow the process from this video https://youtu.be/cN8yMAXp54s for the most part. Haven't done any sharpening on it yet. Still need the tools.
It's all from a single 2x4x8 ($5.50), making it really cheap to attempt. I think it's really cool to make something that would get regular use like a stool. I've got a second one going too and I'm thinking I'm not going to taper it the same way. This taper was really labor intensive and is just underwhelming. Need to figure out other ways to taper staked furniture
This is rex kreuger's 2x4 stool, but I'm pretty sure it's based off a Christopher schwarz design
You guys should join forces