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caran d arche colored pencil nubbin in a Derwent lead extender (pencil holder)

 

I use mostly pinks/blacks/whites for my cityscapes. The lead extender allows me to squeeze every last image out of a pencil nubbin, it also makes it so that when i am down to next to nothing I can still hold what remains of the pencil normally.

A photo for this weeks Studio Photography Insights on photigy.com. The topic was handtools.

Here's my first attempt at a mitred dovetail practice joint made from redwood pine.

A block plane planing olive wood.

Title / Titre :

A girl with a sledgehammer /

 

Une jeune fille tient une masse

 

Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : R.G. Edwards

 

Date(s) : 1942-1943

 

Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 3613768

 

central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3613...

 

Location / Lieu : Unknown / Inconnu

 

Credit / Mention de source :

R.G. Edwards Collection. Library and Archives Canada, e003895283 /

 

Collection R.G. Edwards. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, e003895283

Leather etui , bought on a flea market in France .

( for #FlickrFriday - #HandTools )

This is after i've flattened the top of the bench and used my brace and bit to bore holes for the tennon's i would cut in the legs. it also shows the work site in relation to our camp ground.

 

#whatwoulddickproennekedo

Replacing a driveway crossing.

"Mountain Lion" block drawn and being carved with handtools

Tools & guitar body

 

I've finished making and fitting the workbench drawers, they're already proving very useful

The Veritas Router Plane,

 

one of my favourite tools, it can do housing dado joints, clean up tenons, lap joints, rebates, be used as a marking gauge and cut grooves all without the noise of the power router.

from my apartment

Carving Axe. Robin Wood Edition.

 

Overall length: 365mm (14.3")

Blade length: 126mm (5")

Head height: 135mm (5.3")

Head weight: 500 grams (1.1 lbs)

Blade hardness: HRC 59.

Bohler K460 steel for the edge.

Elm handle. Cow hide leather sheath.

The Flickr Lounge-Hand Tools

 

These are very sharp and I use them a lot in the kitchen!

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.

 

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...in its usual state of organized disarray.

I am making a custom/bespoke box to store a vintage Neumann M49, this is to show the dovetail joinery before lining it with leather and the interior will be lined with velvet. The box will be a replica of the original ones from the early 1950's.

Thread cutting die.

Favorite 10,11,12 numbers on watch dial, 10 x macro. Technique :(I don't like photo stacking, even f stop with numbers over 22 can do the job, but rarely obvious thing wins attention if there is no illusion, - blur is what we pay for). Click on the 🌟 ^_ , "as the time waits for nobody" : )

100% handmade traditional wooden puzzle.

Comprising of 6 identical pieces.

Tropical hardwood in beeswax finish.

Size: 18mm x 18mm x 65mm (approx.)

Hard.

Shot on my Sony RX100vii on a sheet of white paper with light from my patio window to create some shadow and depth.

Converted to black and white (Nik Collection Silver Efex pro 2) to enhance the rough metal of the hammer, a little vignette to help the eye focus on both the (hard) equation and hammer.

So, as Hard was the brief I think I've met it in 4 different ways.

1. It was hard to come up with something original as many's first thoughts were "Hard as Nails".

2. A hard tool, ie hammer.

3. The difficult / hard equation

and finally

4. The equation itself is Vickers Hardness equation which is used to measure the hardness of objects.

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

Some collection of completed orders. It is not often possible to put together so many of our creations that has been made in a while. This morning before saying "Goodbye" to our work we had a chance to document this happen.

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