... that these are better and it makes sense. ... John Whelan, in "The Wooden Plane", makes the case that skewed irons in H&Rs don't buy you anything, or at...
Bob Brode
bbrode@...
Mar 1, 1997 11:40 am
4289
... Rather than resist my inclination to have a wide top on my bench I made my top about twenty" wide with a hinged section at one side of about eighteen",...
SBMarcus
sbmarcus@...
Mar 1, 1997 11:42 am
4290
... The tools I've managed to lay my hands on are legitimately mine. I've missed meals to buy them, among other deprivations, and usually paid a fair price...
... Ratts, just left all my books at the shop. Moseley is a common maker that's often found, but they made nice planes. I'm rather fond of them. I think the...
Larry Williams
williams@...
Mar 1, 1997 1:13 pm
4293
David Gardner wrote: ~ .... No matter how hard I tried to keep my marking knife against the ~ straight edge, it would want to follow the lighter (possibly...
Jeff Gorman
Jeff@...
Mar 1, 1997 1:25 pm
4294
... I have even brazed (sp?) socket chisels with good success. What I do is wrap the blade portion in a sopping wet rag. The important part of the steel...
J. & L. Young
young@...
Mar 1, 1997 1:38 pm
4295
... I have two cents, and they are both just burning holes in my pockets... I am basically in agreement with my esteemed and learned colleagues on this one....
Mack McKinney
Mack_McKinney@...
Mar 1, 1997 2:05 pm
4296
Larry McVoy wrote he wanted some H&R's, but asked "What's up with the Donnelly prices?" Just look at the PATINA auction list which can be found in the EVENTS...
Karl W. Sanger
sangerkw@...
Mar 1, 1997 3:11 pm
4297
... I heartily second that motion. A few years ago I built a timber frame style base for one of my normite contraptions because the original steel model was...
ironmger@...
Mar 1, 1997 3:34 pm
4298
At 8:04 AM -0500 3/1/97, Mack McKinney wrote: [snip] ... Surely no quibble with that. I'm a live-and-let-live kinda guy. Kirby himself, to give him similer...
Tom Holloway
thh1@...
Mar 1, 1997 4:07 pm
4299
After hearing the raves last week about the Kelly repo of the MF #1 cigar shaves, I called Tim and ordered one. It came yesterday. Wow, is it a beaut. Very...
georgew@...
Mar 1, 1997 4:49 pm
4300
For handtools I believe somewhere between 18" and 26" wide is appropriate for the top. My bench used to be 42-1/2" wide (I don't remember why). Last year I...
Paul Pedersen
pedersen@...
Mar 1, 1997 4:56 pm
4301
GG's, I found a spokeshave in my trunk this morning--I find a lot of oldtools that way--they follow me home from God knows where. This tool is cast iron,...
Gil Chesbro
chesbrog@...
Mar 1, 1997 5:24 pm
4302
Many thanks to all who responded to my question regarding Double Iron moulding planes Jerry ... Private replies: JerryKath@... Public replies:...
JerryKath@...
Mar 1, 1997 5:33 pm
4303
... Consider the fact that H&R's were used, as were most molding planes, with the grain. This does make the skew seem unnecessary. I had/have (don't ...
Anthony Seo
tonyseo@...
Mar 1, 1997 5:35 pm
4304
Yep, it's Nashua, NH. Not only a day auction, but there's Dealer and others "tailgating" sales of tools before and after the auctions. Was one of the better...
Erwin L Schaffer
elschaffer@...
Mar 1, 1997 5:37 pm
4305
"John McCoy" <mccoy@...> writes: ... Thanks! (I'll still call it luck unless it happens with the top too! ;-) ... Good point. My pieces were...
Mike Weaver
mikew@...
Mar 1, 1997 6:27 pm
4306
To all who've contributed Thanks for all the ideas on bench width and building technique (I've scrapped the bolts idea...tx. to Paul who of course is...
Tom Johnson
thj@...
Mar 1, 1997 6:50 pm
4307
To one and all... OK, this MAY turn out to be the dumbest idea I've ever had,....I have visions of being swamped with mail,...or getting none,...but here goes....
Tom Johnson
thj@...
Mar 1, 1997 7:04 pm
4308
Earlier Tom Holloway wrote, ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ How so? ... I agree, but marginally. ... I agree. ... I agree with Kirby's approach. In another galaxy a long...
Doug Dawson
dawson@...
Mar 1, 1997 7:25 pm
4309
GG Don opined that the tool I described sounded like a "round chisel scooper", a wood engraver's tool illustrated in Salaman's Dictionary of Woodworking Tools....
MALDK@...
Mar 1, 1997 7:37 pm
4310
... Ahh, Pete, thanks you just sent a flood of memories (and emotions) though the thing I call a brain. I _KNOW_ of _ONE_ Chestnut still standing and thriving....
J. Gunterman
john@...
Mar 1, 1997 7:53 pm
4311
... *snip* ... I can't add anything about your saw. But I thought I'd pass along something my Allstate agent mentioned when I asked him about my renter's...
Ed Chambers
edgy@...
Mar 1, 1997 8:48 pm
4312
Regarding bolts through the top. It has been pointed out to me that sometimes you don't have a choice, like with a traditional 'Scandinavian' bench. I don't...
Paul Pedersen
pedersen@...
Mar 1, 1997 9:06 pm
4313
... academic. ... I've used H&R's to make molding in all kinds of woods for more years than I wish to remember. I've used skews and all three pitches (And a...
SBMarcus
sbmarcus@...
Mar 1, 1997 10:44 pm
4314
... It's ... members.) This is not generally the case. I do a fair amount of insurance claim and repair work. With the exception of certain categories,...
SBMarcus
sbmarcus@...
Mar 1, 1997 10:44 pm
4315
... that the ... I don't know about your spokeshave, but Hargrave was a major manufacturer of iron clamps around the turn of the century. Sort of the...
SBMarcus
sbmarcus@...
Mar 1, 1997 10:45 pm
4316
<snip of people dissing skewed H&R's> Skewed H&R's are nice when working across the grain, like when doing integral moldings on the top of a chest of drawers,...
Patrick Leach
leach@...
Mar 1, 1997 11:12 pm
4317
Hargrave was a manufacturer from the 1870's to 1960's. They made clamps and other tools as well as spokeshaves. They were the Cincinnati Tool Co. which began...
