Found Dreaming

I did manage to get out to the shop today and finish grinding and machining the parts for the side planes done up using the shaper, all that's really left is to just do a little filing on the bed seats of the planes, but that wont take long, and need to heat treat the blades still. 20240419_211015.j...

lol, Ill try to make it over there sometime this summer, just everything's been so crazy that we havnt had time to even think really, lol. The hand is healing up very nicely, but Ive always healed very quickly anyhow, so Ive been out cutting up stuff with the angle grinder and grinding stuff last fe...

lol, we all need a break sometimes, so I just gave myself a good enough excuse, lol. Really, Im going stir crazy since I was so close to finishing up a bunch of projects, and now I cant work on any of it since I cant get grinding dust and junk in the cuts. As for the chisels, youre more than welcome...

As soon as the chisels were done and shellac was dry, i was wanting to play with them and just holding onto a piece of wood (first bad idea) to see how they worked in pine, and they worked great, but I was getting ready for bed and was tired, (yep, you see where this is going) and the chisel I was u...

Well, I was going to cut up those clamping fingers, but kinda went on a side tangent again and still havnt cut them out yet, lol. I was looking up these planes here and really admiring how they were put together, for the shape and everything. https://www.jimbodetools.com/products/set-of-six-amt-viol...

After that, I was looking to see what to use for knobs on the planes, which I kinda wanted something that goes with my "patternmaker's tools" theme, which I like to use woods that normally are used for patternmaking, which I had the leftover pieces of very old genuine mahogany that I used ...

I then took some 3/16" steel rod and cut the sizes I needed for the rivets and started to peen the rivets down into the countersunk holes to fill them up, then any excess would be peened over to make sure the holes were completely filled in and the double sided countersunk rivets made it so the...

Well, as usual, Ive been working on my hand planes again, lol. I was woking on a set of planes called side rabbet planes, which go down into a slot and lets you take a few thou shaving off of the side of the slot to open it up little by little and make it wider till you get the fit that you want. Iv...

Yea, we got hit with it also, and we were just a hair too much south I think because it was just a sliver, but I wasnt really paying too much attention to it. Im with jammer, Ive heard about it nonstop from everyone for the last few weeks that I was just ready for it to be done and over with before ...

well, if youre ever in this area, let me know and Ill go out and fire everything up and we'll hammer out some stuff, lol. I want to make some more gouges anyhow, I made a few for my uncle and after making them, I realized the ones I had been using are so rough, and I have only one size of gouge anyh...