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“A planing stop can be as simple as a stick mortised into the benchtop. Here are some other ways to set up an adjustable planing stop on your bench: drive a couple screws into your benchtop, screw a deadbolt door lock to the end of the bench, clamp a piece of scrap to the benchtop.”
― Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use
― Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use
“place the holes for your pegs? In the legs? That’s good. How about in a wide front apron? That’s better. In a sliding deadman? Much better.”
― Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use
― Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use
“The Directory of American Tool and Machinery Patents (DATAMP for short) makes looking up patented old tools easy. The DATAMP (datamp.org)”
― Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use
― Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use
“Unfortunately, when sharpening skills vanished
from the population at large we then started to think
that sharpening was difficult.”
― Sharpen This
from the population at large we then started to think
that sharpening was difficult.”
― Sharpen This
“I will not give away my hard-earned skills to a machine. It’s a bit like robbery with violence, for (machines are) not only intended to diminish my bank balance, but also to steal my power.” — John Brown”
― Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use
― Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use
“the legs, stretchers and almost certainly the front edge of the benchtop are all in the same plane. This is one of the oft-missed fundamentals of workbench design.”
― Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use
― Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use
“Numbers, like language, are both a crutch and a filter.
They seem to help at first. They seem to describe the world in an accurate way. But in the end all they really do is distort what is right in front of you.”
― The Anarchist's Tool Chest
They seem to help at first. They seem to describe the world in an accurate way. But in the end all they really do is distort what is right in front of you.”
― The Anarchist's Tool Chest
“And finally, we got what we deserved: the sharpen-ng gurus. These (mostly well-meaning) people turned a simple task into something that had to be dissected, studied with scientific equipment, quantified, analyzed, discussed and (here’s the worst part) debated.”
― Sharpen This
― Sharpen This
