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The School begins classes once each year, early in October. Students are divided into sections of 12 students each, and get two hours of classroom instruction and six hours of shop instruction per day, Monday through Friday 8am - 5pm.
Basic Boatbuilding is the focus of the first semester, which runs from early October to late December.
The instructors assume that most, if not all, students have no woodworking skills and proceed from that assumption. The skills taught in the first semester are those essential to boatbuilding, and the course, for that reason, is very "hands-on".
Students learn to sharpen and use all their tools, and participate in a wide range of individual skill-building exercises, from learning to make the joints commonly used in boatbuilding to a series of tools. These exercises culminate when each student builds a dovetailed shoulder box, or tool box, like this one.
Students then learn to draft and make a half-model. Working in pairs, they learn to loft a boat full-size on the floor. Finally, working together as a team, the semester ends in December as students work together to build a flat-bottomed skiff.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school.
Our mission is to teach and preserve the skills and crafts of fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts.
You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948
it turns out that it is rather useful to have multiple braces. I've unintentially acquired 4 of these, but it's nice to not have to change bigs.
File name: 10_03_001860a
Binder label: Home Furnishings
Title: Using Mamma's Christmas present. (front)
Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 16 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Women; Girls; Infants; Hand tools
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
My tool tote, made from bookmatched spruce, douglas fir (for the handle) and scandavian redwood pine for the long sides, the two wedged dowels are made from hard maple, all made with real joinery with handtools.
Strumentu is a one of the best Cordless tool Store .Cordless tools operate on rechargeable batteries.
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The goal was to do a project that did not involve my iMac (I guess until right now..): build a chair! This is a traditional Chinese / Japanese design, or as at least as close as I could get by studying the one I already have, and consulting with a colleague who made one many years ago in China (thanks Zhong-Min!). Fig. 1 is the final result (plus Veronica the cat) and Fig. 2 is my inital concept (argh more iMac). This was my first woodworking project. I used scrap pine boards, which felt like less pressure. I'll try nice hardwoods next time.
I had three rules:
1. No power tools.
2. No nails or glue.
3. No sandpaper or paint.
The idea behind Rule #1 was to spend some 'quality time' with the wood, using only hand tools, many of them Japanese. This meant spending _much_ quality time learning how to sharpen the blades! But boy did they end up sharp...
The idea behind Rule #2 was to learn how to make mortise and tenon joints. I ended up making twelve pegged, blind (i.e. 'stub' or 'stopped') tenon joints. The trick here was that every joint was at a 97 degree angle. This required some iMac-sketching and head-scratching (Fig. 3). For the 8 rail joints, I angled the mortise, and for the 4 leg-seat joints I angled the tenon, in both the x and y directions (Fig. 4). In doing the latter I screwed up some angles, and hence had to violate Rule #2. A sort of chain reaction of bad angles necessitated a reworking of all 12 joints, so that they no longer fit perfectly and required some wood glue. Luckily, making the 1/8" hardwood pegs was satisfying and successful!
Rule #3 was intended to leave the wood surface feeling 'like wood'. I read a great furniture artisan book from the SF Library (can't remember the title) that advocated the use of a scraper to take off thin, single shavings from the surface, leaving a superior finish to sandpaper, which creates hundreds of miniature cuts. Pretty neat. A combination of blue and green stains ended up quite vivid.
Slow work...but all in all very enjoyable!
The tools (Fig. 5)...Japanese and Western mortise gauges. Gimlets for hand-drilling holes. Japanese saw, chisel, and mortise chisel. Drawknife for shaping the curved seat. Arkansas stone and Japanese water stone for sharpening. Scraper. Mallet. Combination square. Old plane that didn't work so great. Band clamp.
Tool sources and info:
Alameda Antique Faire
Japan Woodworker (Alameda)
Hida Tool (Berkeley)
Cliff's Variety (San Francisco)
Books and Bookshelves [stains and inspiration] (San Francisco)
Robert Larson Hand Tools (San Francisco)
"Japanese Woodworking Tools" by Toshio Odate
"Hand Tools" and "Planes and Chisels" from the "Fine Woodworking on..." Series
"Woodworking" by Jackson, Day, and Jennings
"HOME BUILDING AND WOODWORKING IN COLONIAL AMERICA" by C KEITH WILBUR
File name: 10_03_001982a
Binder label: Tobacco / Cigarettes
Title: Copenhagen Snuff. [front]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 14 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Men; Dogs; Hand tools; Snuff
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Weyman & Bro.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
All rights reserved. Please do not use or reproduce this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my permission.
I bought these from a friend at his garage sale. They were his late father's -- had been in storage a while, and hadn't been used a few years before that. Each plane got the wire brush treatment, a vinegar bath, and their irons honed on sandpaper. Finally, today, on Father's Day, I put them back together to make some fresh shavings. My friend was glad to see them getting some good use.
Stanley No. 4 Type 15, 1931-1932
Millers Falls No. 87 block plane, 1950s-1961
In another lifetime, it seems, I was a piano technician, tuning and repairing pianos. Pictured are a few tools of my former trade.
Hoeing Potatoes. Real Photo Postcard.
1907 TAUNTON MASS. Postmark.
Sent to:
Mrs. A.B. Bicknell
Tunbridge, VT
Message:
A potato race on the K????? farm, do you think the little fellow stands any show. Me and my man Friday.
[06168]
Here's my first box made with a sliding lid, made from spruce and finished with de-waxed shellac and clear briwax
The 3M Versaflo respirator is ideal for use in a variety of situations where filtered air is necessary for safety.
a coat hanger I designed and made out of hard maple, made entirely with hand tools using mortise and tenon joinery.
I finished the tabletop with several coats of linseed oil, then countless coats of beeswax, all hand rubbed.
I love photography, but I also love to draw. I usually need at least two pens, one to draw and one to outline with.
My peg board where I hang my saws (and other stuff).
The dozuki - It's a pull saw so the blade doesn't have to be as thick (or have a strengthening member at the top like the America saws. Since the blade is thinner, the amount of wood that has to be removed is less so the amount of force is less. Many people think this gives more control.
The Japanese style versus the Western style is really a "religious" thing, like Nikon versus Canon. Both have advantages. I think (but am not 100% sure) that the Western style is easier to sharpen. Japanese style saws have a thinner kerf since they cut on the pull (rather then push) so the blade doesn't need to be so stiff, i.e. thick. Also the straight handle means it's less sensitive to the position of the hand.
Green Ridge Fire Company
Aston Township Delaware County,PA
Engine 63 is a 2010 Pierce Arrow XT Pumper. The engine is equipped with a 6 man cab, a 1500gpm single stage Hale pump and 750 gallons of water. Engine 63 carries your basic Engine Company equipment, hoses ranging from 1" booster line up to 5" supply line. Various adapters, appliances and handtools along with a thermal imaging camera and 4 gas detector. An AED and basic first aid bag.
Truck 63 is a 2003 Pierce Dash 105 foot ladder truck. The Truck is equipped with a 2000gpm Hale pump and 500 gallons of water. Its primary duties are that of a truck company but this apparatus can also function as an engine company. The ladder carries a variety of ground ladders, ventilation fans, gas powered saws, forcible entry tools, gas meter, thermal imaging camera, ropes and other rescue equipment including for RIT and an AED.