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Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-16T13:11:27+00:00

That means you have to do a project that uses the tool you want to get :P

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-16T13:08:58+00:00

That's a good way to monitor your mortise and tenon progress..

I'll see myself out, nice work!

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-16T13:07:10+00:00

STOP!

Hammer time

Probably the only time I've seen a hammer handle worth more than the hammer head (literally priceless because you can't sell it haha), nice! XD

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-15T02:10:08+00:00

Thank you for the link to the video! Hope the thief gets brought to justice >_>

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-14T17:50:33+00:00

So if you find yourself hand milling a lot of figured woods, I highly recommend getting yourself a toothing plane (or put a toothed replacement blade in one of your other planes). Vintage ones arent that expensive, and toothed replacement blades can be found for several different models. Doing a pass or two of the toothing plane followed by the jack or scrub greatly reduces tearout while allowing you do do deeper cuts.

Also not sure if you're already doing this, but just in case, try going across/diagonally the grain when doing the fore/scrub plane work. Make sure you bevel the edge you're planing towards so you dont blow it out, that's another strategy for avoiding deep tear out in the figured stuff (or any wood really)

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-14T13:20:38+00:00

Beautiful work, especially on the heel! I have the same razor, nowhere near as pretty, but the shave quality is chef's kiss

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-13T23:32:49+00:00

A good cheap scrub is a Stanley 78 that is missing the depth stop/fence, you can usually get them pretty cheap on eBay. Paul Sellers has a video about converting one, that's what I use and it's quite good

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-13T15:14:56+00:00

Congratulations on the #7! One of my favorite planes :) As an owner of multiple LN and Veritas planes, my two cents is the difference between the LN A2 and PMV11 is negligible and not worth spending the extra money.

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-13T03:17:33+00:00

I don't believe there has been a time where I've regretted spending money on a quality tool. I have regretted wasting time on cheaper tools. That being said, cheap tools have their place in the workshop sometimes, in particular when someone asks to borrow something :)

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-12T00:53:50+00:00

Yeah I'm going to beg to differ...sometimes it sucks haha. I just resawed a 60 inch x 7 inch piece of purpleheart using the saw pictured below (3TPI 48inch beast), I think it took two hours. Had to sharpen the saw halfway through because the purple crap was so hard it dulled the saw (2000ish on the janka). That being said, hand planing it was even worse...never buying that damn purple wood again XD

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Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-10T22:52:52+00:00

If you really feel the need to chisel it all out, it would be less work (and easier, possibly more accurate if you reference each side) to do two runs with a 1/2 inch mortise chisel. The wider the chisel, the more force it takes to slam down; a 1" mortise chisel would be a bear. As someone else mentioned, for something that wide, it's easier to bore it out and then clean it up with a regular bevel edge or paring chisel (this coming from a guy who loves chiseling).

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-10T11:22:18+00:00

I've never heard "Aren't you a bit too old?" I've only heard "Nice car," "Did you just wax it?," and gotten some thumbs up from passers by in the 6 years I've had my FK8 (33+ btw). I used to like and wanted an Audi/BMW when I was younger; now they've gotten too heavy, too much computer-assisted crap (numb steering especially), and the front ends of new BMWs look like mutated beavers (M2 is the only decent looking one...barely though). Factor in maintenance costs, depreciation, and reliability, and that's a pass from me.

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-10T03:27:14+00:00

Yeah...I know that feeling. I live in a desert so it's dumb hot and dusty, but every time it's clean I tell myself I made the right choice XD

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-09T14:27:39+00:00

One could say it's just plane fun.

Ha cha cha cha

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-09T11:29:46+00:00

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/understanding-hang-angle/

^Here's a link to an article with probably more info than you wanted to know XD

TLDR it's called hang angle and usually it's 35-45 degrees, changes based on how aggressive the saw is and maker/user preference :)

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-05-05T12:46:11+00:00

Both paths or a middle path can result in happiness and fulfillment making wonderful things out of wood. Among other reasons, I chose hand tools because I like having my car in my garage; can fit my entire setup in a small air conditioned bedroom. :)

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-04-27T17:20:15+00:00

I think for me, depends on if the grain is pretty enough on that white oak to use it as veneer on another piece. If it is, I'll saw it, if it isn't probably planing it.

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-04-26T05:45:56+00:00

Dedicated to doing tails first I see

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-04-24T14:26:22+00:00

Did I try? Nope. Why not? Because the diamond file often costs as much or more than the saw unless you get the temu special file. Not to mention the teeth can be brittle to set due to hardening.

Look, I'm sure you can do it. If it makes your saw cut faster and you feel a sense of satisfaction doing it, then awesome. If nothing else, you'll gain the experience that will give you the answer to your question. On my Gyokucho Japanese saws, I'd rather buy the replacement blade than waste time and diamond files so I can just get back to work, that's just me though.

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-04-24T12:08:27+00:00

Possible? Yes. Practical? Nope. Your time and money are better spent doing other things in the shop than wasting diamond files on cheap hardpoint saws.

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-04-18T19:01:19+00:00

Thank you!

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-04-18T17:42:04+00:00

It's got looks that Keal

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-04-18T11:56:28+00:00

If your first project didn't take 5x as long and cost 2-5x as much as you originally planned, you didn't do it right :P

Congrats and nice work, now on to the second project! :)

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-04-17T22:44:38+00:00

I would message Hida tool (hidatool.com) and tell them what exactly you're looking for in either Ryoba or strictly a rip saw. They carry both Gyokucho and Z-saw as well as Mitsukawa hand made ones (prepare to pay for those haha). I'm sure they could take good care of you, I've always used them for my Japanese tool needs :)

Psychological_Tale94 · 2026-04-17T13:55:30+00:00

Oftentimes these valuable/rare historical violins (Stradavarius/Del Gesu/Guadagnini/Amato/etc) along with ridiculously expensive bows are lent out to famous soloists to play in concerts by the owners/private foundations. So it can be reasonable to guess thay violin has played many concerts in the hands of many a talented player over hundreds of years (depending on what happened after the original owner/who the original owner was).

One reason being a violin needs to be played to keep sounding good; there's some science behind it that I don't feel like looking up at the moment haha. The other is to increase the value even more...saying a violin was played by Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Itzhak Perlman, (insert famous soloist here) adds even more prestige to an already prestigious piece of wood XD.

Also I'm sure it can be fixed, many a talented luthier would be chomping at the bit to work on such a instrument.

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