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Home / Archive for February 2016

A Carver's Mallet - rough start

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The Fine Woodworking Winter 2013-14 tools and shop issue (#237) had a short article about turning a carver's mallet.   While I don'...
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Finishing off the Merrill

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   Perhaps I am stretching it getting three posts out of reconditioning just one chisel, but because it was a side project it ended up taki...
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A new handle for the old Merrill

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   I have a few pieces of apple scrap at hand, and found one that was just about the right size for the new handle.   At first glance, it l...
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Last of the ten

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Last of the ten practice spindles, so thirty coves of wildly varying quality cut.  At first glance, I would say something has shifted, comin...
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and the shavings suddenly get longer

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Really focusing in on riding the bevel and then starting the cut with a sideways adjustment rather than deepening the tip, and I almost imm...
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Getting reps in

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 Peter Galbert, the author of Chairmaker's Notebook   as well as the sequence of FWW articles on turning that really got me to just star...
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And more coves!

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  The last session really felt like I was improving, then hit a bump in the road.   Somehow I am doing something different as I initiate th...
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