Found Dreaming

Well, if I were there, I'd swing the hammer for both fo you guys, lol. Ive been working with a fellow blacksmith that just had shoulder surgery a few months ago and any heavy forging, I do the drawing out and such, and he just does the light stuff like bending and such, to make up the tools he wants...

oops, my youtube channel got nuked and all of the videos got removed, but I copied over to odysee. I fixed the link so it should work now.

Ill keep an eye out for spam accounts as usual, and I hope we get a few more on here to chat with.

well, I made a bit of progress on the checkering planes... I machined up the bottoms of them and the steel was really wierd, full of hard spots, and hard to work with properly. I had to machine it a few times because I kept screwing it up, and when I took it out of the vise, I realized that it was w...

cool, Ive looked at those for a few years now and they keep coming down in price, but my issue is space, funds, and when I would use it would be the winter, it'd be smoking up the house and need fume extraction, which is no good for in the house during the winter, lol. I thought about using it with ...

yea, I know he messed with guns because I remember talking to him about him machining some gun part on the shaper. He did a video up showing machining it on his big cincinatti shaper that I was drooling over, lol. I had a few mins last night in between working on stuff and grabbed a piece of wood fr...

Oh yea, router fence I mentioned above. I didnt have a fence for my old router, and I wanted one to keep it as original to what would have come with it, so I made up the patterns for it sometime last year, and finally got around to casting one out, along with a few other things. 20260730_215847.jpg ...

I was trying to mess with the checkering tools again, trying to modify them, etc to get them to work for me and not make an absolute mess out of it, I was looking at them and thinking "what would happen if I had more teeth, would that help even out the surface and make it easier/faster?". ...

That leads me into probably the final version of the checkering planes, which Im going to make up a little different, but it'll be a pipe plane as usual, but this one will have box tubing instead of round/pill shape, lol. I just took one of the pill shape small ones I had and clampped it in the vise...

Well, Im still here fiddling with my toys and planes, and I figured I'd give a bit of an update on an idea Ive poked at before, lol. Ive talked about making a hand plane to do checkering, which is the diamond cross hatch pattern on wood, almost like a knurl on metal. Ive fought with trying to figure...