HTT012 – Making Your Own Hand Tools
On today’s show, I discuss jointer and planer size, fixing problem with old saw handles, methods for cutting down an old saw, restoring wooden bench planes, and making your own tools.
From the Shop
- One of the hand saws that I’ve been working on has been finished and is ready for delivery to the customer.
- We made a bit more progress on our new cabin.
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- No feedback this week.
The Mailbox
- Joe wants to know what size machines would be most useful for stock prep in a hand tool shop.
- Shaun has some questions about restoring an old hand saw.
- Scott is looking for clarification on methods for cutting down old saws.
- Bill is restoring some old wooden bench planes and wants to know about mouth opeinings.
Main Topic
Today’s main topic is making your own woodworking hand tools.
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Tag:Hand Planes, Hand Saws, Planer, Tool Making
2 Comments
Another of your great shows Bob. There are a couple of other low cost options for the jointer issue. A router sled can be used to surface wide boards then run thru the planer. It is loud and slow but would be less expensive than a wide jointer. Also a sled could be made for an electric hand held planer and that used to flatten one face and the other flattened in the planer.
I have a 16″ jointer and 20″ planer but I have some boards that are too wide for the jointer so the router sled would be an option.
I also saw where two tracks were routed down just inside the edges of a wide board and then 2 runners were hot melt glued into the tracks, the board then was run thru the planer achieving a flat face then the runners were removed and that face was flattened. Looked like it would work very well.
Thanks! All certainly viable options. Way too much effort involved for me though. If I had to go through that much trouble to get a face flat, I’d just revert to hand planing it. Which is probably why I still have not gone down the road of getting a power planer, jointer, or combination machine yet 🙂 .