wood working

Rejuvenated parting chisel

dimanche 30 mars 2014

No idea where this chisel came from but it did not fit in my PVC tubes for my chisel rack.

It was old looking and flaking varnish on the handle so time to re-turn it to some of its original luster.

Well I must say with just eee after some sanding and a moment with the roughing gouge and she is a fine looking piece of timber and a nice feeling handle too

Dave the turning cowboy

turning wood into art

Another Swiss Boring Head - A Tiny Kaiser

24mm in diameter tiny. Bores 0.4 -15mm!

This Kaiser was in an German eBay auction last night ending at 1am Perth time. I placed a bid at dinner time thinking I'd probably wake to find an outbid notice awaiting me. Mine for EUR 54.99. A bit less than the Piccolo! :roll:

Schaublin offered the head as an accessory for their mills. It was supplied with a 10mm diameter straight arbor facilitating it's use with, in the case of the 13 and 53, their 6000 rpm high speed heads.

The arbor on last night's win is a 1 Morse. The head accommodates 4mm diameter cutters, the finding of which should be a challenge.:rolleyes:

A search for the Tosei connection has so for proven fruitless. Tosei sounds Japanese. Kaiser have been in partnership with BIG Daishowa Seiki since the early eighties though this head looks the same as the one pictured below in the 1962 13 catalogue. Michael G encountered a helpful fellow at Kaiser when we were fiddling around with our boring and facing heads. The same bloke may be able to shed some light on who Tosei was.

BT

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Huanyang Inverter 4kw

i have problem with my HUANYANG 4.0 KW INVERTER VFD when i do the job it stops randomly.feels like spindle haven't power. rpm 24000 400hz but still it stops when cuting wood with 11.2mm end mill tool at 10mm depth. strange is that it dosen't get hot but a little bit warm.

i have this set http://ift.tt/1jNtqya

same look spindel. air cooling.

Metal detector

Hi All,

I have ruined a set of thicknesser blades:C (hitachi 330mm) and was thinking of getting a cheap metal detector to avaoid this in future. Is a hand held security scanner likely to do the trick? any other suggestions?

Cheers,

Dunks

And todays fun

Well have spent this afternoon roughing out either outside with the chainsaw preparing the logs to roughing out 2 of the blanks still 2 more to do in this batch. It is surprising hoe much mess 2 blanks can produce. What you see in the picture filled 4 carrier bags of shavings all beech.

On the bench on the right is another bowl blank and also another piece for hollow forms should get 2 largish form or 3 smaller ones out of that piece

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A little more turning

I managed to have a bit more fun in the shed with a little turning the other day. Made this little box from scrap wood, mahogany and olive wood the coin is 22.5mm dia

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Pimping my Dovetail Plane

Several years ago I built a dovetail plane that shaped the male section of a sliding dovetail ...

Based on a derelict skew rebate plane, it wasn't much of a looker, but it got the job done.

The build pictorial is here: http://ift.tt/1fD2LN5

About 18 months ago I bought a HNT Gordon dado plane, which is a superb performer and stunning looking plane. I was inspired to build another dovetail plane, this time one that planed the female/matching joint. I styled it to match the dado plane (on the right) ...

Used together, they make a great team ..

Build details are here: http://ift.tt/1fD2Kc3

Now, in a couple of weeks I shall join Terry Gordon (HNT Gordon Planes), Colen Clenton and Chris Vesper (tool makers extrordinaire) at the LN Perth Tool Event, where I will be demonstrating making joints with hand tools. I decided that one of the joints I shall make will be the sliding dovetail. In addition to saw-and-chisel, I plan to use the dovetail planes.

That's when I looked at the dovetail plane and thought that it could do with a face lift. Well, a face lift that improved its functionality as well.

Targeted was the depth stop and the fence. In the original versions they required a hex key to adjust the bolts. This is a limitation - much better to be able to do so without a special tool.

The stained and tired beech body was stained Jarrah to match the other planes, and a bit of bling was added with brass. This is how it turned out ...