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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Making your own woodworking tools.
  • Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:52:01 EST


> >I forgot to add this book to my previous post on blacksmithing. "Make Your
> Own Woodworking Tools: Metalwork Techniques to Create, Customize, and
> Sharpen in the Home Workshop"

Japanese type planes, knives, scrapers etc. are especially easy to make at
home. I am wondeing if the book deals with Japanese type tools.

Woodworking tools are may daily bread and butter (so to speak) and about half
the tools I use are shop made or shop modified from existing tools. Include
those tools in with the array of jigs, forms, and clamps that are shop made
and in the course of time in making the first fifty or so of an item, half
that
time is spent making tools and jigs.

Someone gave me this enormous (broken) bandsaw blade 3" wide and 1/8" thick
and a score or more feet long. It is easily cut and shaped, and then it
anneals into a very good edge.

Another thing I'd be interested in, Don, is if the book deals mainly with oil
sharpening or water sharpening or both?


James




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