Woodworking in America 2013 is just around the corner. If you’re planning on attending, I’m sure you’re getting excited about a weekend of non-stop woodworking discussion already. If you’ve attended previous WIAs you know that the talk of - and camaraderie around - woodworking extend well past the actual conference hours of about 8:30 am to 6:00 pm.
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| Steve, Niks Dad, Sean, Vic, Kyle & Matt have fun at Keystone |
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| We work wood and eat German food (and were loud). |
Beginning at 7:00 pm, we’ll be hanging out in the upstairs bar room at the Keystone Bar & Grill. It’s a quick walk from the convention center and most of the hotels. Meeting at the Keystone on the opening night of registration has become a tradition for WIA and we hope you’ll join us. Many fellow MWA members, woodworking bloggers and other WIA attendees will be there. If you’re going to to the Roubo Book Release, don’t worry. You can join us at Keystone afterwards. All are welcome.Friday: Hofbrauhaus
The Hofbrauhaus excursion on Friday night is another WIA tradition. It’s less organized than the meetups at Keystone, in that we don’t reserve a private room. We just jump on the trolley and head to Hofbrauhaus. It’s a fun night of great beer, great food, great company and loud music. If you’re going to the official WIA Banquet, please join us at Hofbrauhaus afterwards. We usually stay late. If you’re looking to meet us at Hofbrauhaus, there’s no telling exactly where we’ll be, though in past years we’ve started the evening at the outside bar area and then moved to one of the many long tables. Just listen for Tom Iovino and you’ll be sure to find us. All are welcome.
Saturday: WoodTalk Meetup at Keystone
The WoodTalk guys have setup their own Meetup at the Keystone on Saturday night. It begins at 6:30. Since it was organized by and features Marc, Matt & Shannon, you should expect that this will be the smoothest running event of the weekend. Still, it’s going to be an absolute blast and all should come. I know we’re going to try to represent the MWA there in force.Afterwards:
Just about every night some folks will stop by the Behle St Cafe before heading back to their rooms. If it’s late, but you’re still looking to hang out with woodworkers, joint us there. All are welcome.
Finally, the two sides are ready as well as a wooden support, useful for dovetail peening. 
The iron holder comes from a 10 mm steel plate. It has a 47.5° angle and also is useful as support to the file for cutting the mouth back. 
Side shaping, first lapping with 100 grit abrasive paper and 6mm rivet plugging in for blade holder fastening. 
The dovetail peening is the most important step; although the wooden support helps, it is important to control that the internal part of sides is square, to avoid troubles during plane assembling.
Cleaning up with a file and abrasive paper, until joints disappear and the sole is flat.
For making the lever cap I used template steel, a very strong material. I had to do more work for shaping it.
Handle and knob come from a 3mm thick well seasoned ash board; apparently working wood seems easier than shaping metal, but I spent several hours to obtain the right shapes.
The blade comes from an old industrial cutter. It has been worked with glass paper for obtaining the 25° bevel and with 3M abrasives (40, 30, 15, 5, 1, 0.3 microns) for honing a 30° microbevel.
Here is a pic of the polished infill plane. It is already at work.
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Venue Information
Keystone Bar & Grill
313 Greenup St
Covington, KY
Hofbrauhaus Newport
200 East 3rd St
Newport, KY 41071
Take the SouthBank Shuttle (trolley) to the stop between Monmouth St & Saratoga St (it doesn’t have stop names)
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Behle St Cafe
50 East Rivercenter Blvd
Covington, KY 41011
Across the street from the convention center in the same building as the Embassy Suites
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I learned a new lesson. Do not glue wood while tired. I figured that I would get a step up on the hall tree build and glue some boards together tonight. I wasnt thinking and didnt clamp the wood down to the bench before I drilled in the pocket holes and the wood drifted. I hate it when that happens. The good news is that the boards I glued together go behind the cubbys and nobody will ever really see them. Im hoping that I can just sand the hell out of them and even them up. Once again, this is the main reason I am using cheap wood. So I can make mistakes like this.
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Senin, 04 April 2016
Making an Infill Smoother
This post has been written by Vittorio, a friend of mine very skilled with hand tools. I only translate from Italian (hope not too badly) his great job. Thank you Vittorio and welcome to the blog! For some time I thought to build a metal plane and surfing the net I found a lot of ideas and this very good project:http://user.xmission.com/~jry/ww/tools/a13/a13.htmland my adventure started!
I thank you Jim Yehle from Salt Lake City, the author of the project from which my plane was inspired. I used Fe 430 steel. I think it is strong enough for good plane sturdiness and at same time permits to use hand tools for working it easily; I used 6 mm thick plate for the sole and a 5mm one for sides.
I started by coupling sides together, marking joints and boring for reducing the steel amount to be discarded; with patience I shaped the dovetails. These have 60° angles, as well as files have.
I thank you Jim Yehle from Salt Lake City, the author of the project from which my plane was inspired. I used Fe 430 steel. I think it is strong enough for good plane sturdiness and at same time permits to use hand tools for working it easily; I used 6 mm thick plate for the sole and a 5mm one for sides.
I started by coupling sides together, marking joints and boring for reducing the steel amount to be discarded; with patience I shaped the dovetails. These have 60° angles, as well as files have.
I cut the sole, marked out tails and sawn them as precisely as possible; this job was far more difficult.
Finally, the two sides are ready as well as a wooden support, useful for dovetail peening. The iron holder comes from a 10 mm steel plate. It has a 47.5° angle and also is useful as support to the file for cutting the mouth back. Side shaping, first lapping with 100 grit abrasive paper and 6mm rivet plugging in for blade holder fastening. The dovetail peening is the most important step; although the wooden support helps, it is important to control that the internal part of sides is square, to avoid troubles during plane assembling.Cleaning up with a file and abrasive paper, until joints disappear and the sole is flat.For making the lever cap I used template steel, a very strong material. I had to do more work for shaping it.Handle and knob come from a 3mm thick well seasoned ash board; apparently working wood seems easier than shaping metal, but I spent several hours to obtain the right shapes.I used 8mm steel rods (bored in a machine shop) as spacers for handle fixing. Rods were threaded inside and inserted into the wood; as said above if the inner side is not square to the sole, the spacer ability of firmly holding the wood in place will be decreased. 
The wood has been finished with 8 coats of shellac, fixed to metal body with screws firmly screwed and then clinched. Unfortunately ordinary screws have the conical section too low, so the countersink has not completely filled. However the final lapping helps to attenuate the gap.
The blade comes from an old industrial cutter. It has been worked with glass paper for obtaining the 25° bevel and with 3M abrasives (40, 30, 15, 5, 1, 0.3 microns) for honing a 30° microbevel.Finally the road test. I tried the plane with fir, lime and beech. Its a pleasure use it. This is sufficient for satisfying me enough of the job, done only using hand tools.
The mouth opening is 1 mm. The plane weights 2260 gr.
Here is a pic of the polished infill plane. It is already at work.Final notes.
While I am waiting for a knurled screw for lever cap, I have done a wooden cap.Although the plane lacks of adjusting mechanism, its set up is easy.
The handle tail could appear too accentuate, but the grip results very ergonomic.After all I am very happy beaucause has been a great experience with a good result.Ciao
Vittorio
Minggu, 03 April 2016
The Electrical Panel Frame Door
Here’s the latest video on the shop wall renovation. Not a whole lot of progress, but I did manage to finish the last of the electrical access panel frames.This last frame was the tricky one, incorporating a door to reach the electrical panel.