WIA11 A Whole Bunch of Photos

Last year at Woodworking in America, I took far too few photos. This year I managed to take a whole lot more. Though I still think I may not have taken enough, here are the photos Ive taken.
Some of these folders only contain a few images, but hopefully they convey the great time we had at WIA11.
Woodworking in America 2011 Photos:

Blogger Community Party

The Maloof Leg-to-Seat Joint w/ Charles Brock

WIA Marketplace

Hand Tool Olympics

Secrete Drawers & Hidden Compartments w/ Charles Brock

Nailed Furniture of the 18th Century w/ Adam Cherubini

Hofbrauhaus

Rabbets, Dadoes & Grooves by Hand w/ Adam Cherubini

Tradition Improved Lie-Nielsen Toolworks w/ Thomas Lie-Nielsen

Chisels Through Ancient Eyes w/ Adam Cherubini

Blue Shirts

Embassy Suites Happy Hour

Pompilio

Behle Street Cafe

Rob Bois, Woodworking Underwear Model & Bad Axe Tenon Saw Winner

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Ive made these two rabbets planes  by copying a larger XVII century exemplar. The main characteristic is that it has only one open side. As a blade I used a file, properly shaped and sharpened. The body is mahogany, the sole wenge. The  metal bar on the side avoids flexion body when the wedge is forced into place and adds weight to the plane. You could avoid increasing the  plane body thickness or decreasing the width of the blade, but in both cases these are uncomfortable compromises.

The hole for chips ejection can be easily achieved with a Forstner bit. The body design is very close to the original and I must say that the fingers have a perfect support.

Having only one side useful for working you have to build two  twin planes, each working in one direction. One use for wich I found convenient is to finish the rabbets. In this one, made with the circular saw, I screwed the setting of the blade and the result was a visible residual step. A simple job for one of the little twins!

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2013 A Year In Shop Tours

With my final shop tour of 2013 recently posting, Ive taken all my 2013 shop tours and combined them into a single playlist.
Here, presented for your amusement, is 2013: A Year In Shop Tours

Dont forget about the +Modern Woodworkers Association Podcast. We talk woodworking with Guests from around the world of woodworking every other week. Subscribe to the RSS feed or iTunes today.

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For this incoming year, here is a English version of a calendar  published today by the Italian woodworking forum Legnofilia

Happy New Year!You can download it here:2014 calendar

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My New Old Tools

Recently my girlfriends mum invited me to look through her shed for any tools that might be of use in my new woodworking hobby. A lot of the tools I found were suffering from rust and have not been used (or even touched) for around 18 years.

Here are a few of the tools I am either in the process of cleaning up or have cleaned up and pressed back into service once again.

• Roll of 12 Auger bits
• Ridgchoice Large Expanding Bit Set 3/8" - 3"
• Large Yankee Push Screwdriver
• Small Ratchet Screwdriver
• Marking Gauge
• Small Hammer
• Stanley 102 Block Plane
• Rapier Spokeshave
• 2 x Egg Beater Drills (One Stanley the other a Millers Falls?)
• Spinney Bailey No#4 Bench Plane - I may set this up as a Scrub Plane
• 2 x Sureform (Straight & Curved) Planes
• Wooden (Shoulder?) Plane.

There were also three Warranted Superior Panel saws which I counted as: 5tpi, 8tpi & 10tpi all filed rip. I de-rusted the blades, sanded and oiled the wooden handles and have sent them off along with my own 10tpi panel saw for re-sharpening and should get them back next week.

I have requested the 5tpi to be filed rip, the 8tpi to be filed crosscut and the other two 10tpi saws rip and crosscut. At some point in the near future, I would like get the required saw files and tools and be responsible for sharpening my own saws.

Cleaning, de-rusting, oiling, servicing and sharpening all these tools is helping me better understand how they work and whats required to keep them functioning properly - all the more important in the hand tool world.

Its certainly a steep learning curve!

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