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Something NEW crossed my path a couple of weeks ago while I was visiting a my friend Paul's shop. He showed me a new sort of scraper / plane he had just made that lies flat on the project surface. It was one of those tools that as soon as you see it you think, WOW, what a great idea, I need to make one of those for myself. Paul told me he had seen it somewhere else before and was not his idea or design, but there's no reaon people cannot make their own versions of this idea, and so I did.
I started off with an old block plane I no longer use, but was once my go-to plane. The blade was still sharp, but would need a tiny bit of stropping to get it super sharp, but that would come later ....
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Lots of things going on today in the shop, starting off by re-setting the vertical axis on my bandsaw blade, with the Blade Square Tool I purchased a short time ago .. then is will be off to making wooden box to keep my Narex Paring Chisels in a safe, easy access wooden box with a secret tool holder ...
As usual, my "little job" turned into a multi day marathon, I always underestimate how long it takes to make things, maybe that's because I often make changes as I go, or maybe it's because I don't take into account how long glue and finishes take to apply, dry and harden ....
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The only house I worked on as a carpenter from foundation all the way to "occupancy", the Journeyman Carpenter obsessed about who he hired to build the forms and pour the foundation. He told simply, a poor foundation will cause you extra time and work through the whole construction of the house. I have never forgotten that tip.
The same is true with woodworking, if we start off knowing as much as we can about the wood, it can save trying to fix things later on, which very often take more time to fix than doing it right the first time ...
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In this video I am adding a steel plate to the top of the existing plastic deck on my Ridgid Oscillating Belt and Drum Sander. I have purchased a plate of 10 gauge, mild steel and had it cut the appropriate size and now the real work begins.
I will be drilling holes large enough to accommodate the belt sanding mechanism, which will also mean all the drums will work as well on the sander. The big PLUS for me is that with this added feature to the sander I can now build and use a variety of new jigs for this sander and use Magswitch Technology instead of wood clamps to get quick, super solid positioning with all my jigs.
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