I finished my Moxon Vise today. I screwed it up on my first attempt, I didn't have any 1 3/4" material that was recommended so I tried to make due with some 1 1/4" Butternut and compounded my error by using my newly restored Stanley 78 to rabbit the bottom leaving a 1/4" rail on the back piece to line the vise up with the edge of the bench instead of the 2 other methods mention in the plans. This left me with only an inch sitting on the bench and the whole vise rocked when I tried to use it.

Today I ripped another piece of Butternut and attached it to the back of the vise. Works great now.

 

It's Sunday. I try not to cuss on Sundays. So, it's probably a bad time to inspect and adjust the cutters on my DeWalt planer's Shelix head. Not terribly difficult but, finicky and time consuming. The time is no problem. But, my finicky tolerance is becoming less with each passing day. Plus, standing on concrete, all bent over, for the hour + it'll take, will kill my back. Might try to utilize a bar stool to sit on.

I'll have to wear my cheaters, with their 10x lenses lenses and, rig up a mount for a goose neck lamp. 

Bad eyes, bad back and a short fuse, will make this job a less than a fun hour. 

Yesterday, I got all (hopefully) the pieces cut to the rough length for the Limbert tables. Next is completion of thickness planing. Well, not all. I still have to source a number of 6/4 slabs for the table tops. They'll most likely require thicknessing, also. S4S walnut is out of my price range.

Well, the planer job got interrupted and, delayed. About 15 minutes after a late start in the shop, son showed up with a 2X10X10 and a request for ole' dad to cut a couple of stair stringers. It seems that he's rehabbing an elevated playhouse for his almost 4 yr, old daughter's birthday on tax day. He brought one of the old rotted stringers for a pattern. After marking it out, he said he'd do the cutting so, I handed him one of my Dozukis. The look on his face was priceless. We finally settled on the Skill 77. He did manage to get the cuts made and, he did use the Dozuki to finish each cut. Then we had a nice lunch of BBQed pulled pork sandwiches and lemon pie. Then he headed home. I headed to the recliner for a nap. Tomorrow's another day. 

Couple of new tools ordered today from TaylorToolworks.

 

The dovetail marking jig @frenchwwr recommended is backordered for another month so I went with this brass one. I'll get Veritas eventually, I like its dedicated angle, one for hardwood, one for softwood, can't have too many, right?

 

And this PEC BLEM square; I've purchased many PEC blemished rulers over the years. Love them all. 64ths for guitars, metric for fiddles, and hundredths for ... I forgot. Also for guitars?

 

 

 

18 minutes ago, Dovetail said:

And this PEC BLEM square; I've purchased many PEC blemished rulers over the years.

Never owned one, but from several reviews of those that have, majority claim the blems are usually undetectable by the naked eye. Top quality too for the $$'s.

working on the upper handguard-

 

2 minutes ago, lew said:

working on the upper handguard

Well done thus far Lew. Gonna be a beaut when done.

33 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Well done thus far Lew. Gonna be a beaut when done.

Thanks! So far everything has been woodworking. Now the sculpting begins. Not my forte

Edited March 22, 20224 yr by lew

Last night I set out two chisels and the irons to my three planes. This morning I tried to put an edge on the chisels and the Stanley Handyman iron. Lets just say that if my shoe-tying skills matched that of my blade sharpening skills, I'd have perpetually broken wrists from tripping all of the time. Does olive oil work as a honing stone lubricant?

 

This morning I took the Handyman and the last old drawer front to the front porch Exterior Shop and got it preliminarily pretty. The grain is so tight I'll likely tuck this board in the rafters until I've a decent table saw. So that is what the carbide kerf blade is for! Cut slats and assemble them flipped on edge into the sides of a box.

 

You ain't seeing double, it's a composite image

2 hours ago, Dovetail said:

Does olive oil work as a honing stone lubricant?

Ahh, now we're talking! The Bertolli Difference! 

 

Done and gone! My friend will put on the finish to match the other furniture.

 

 

Nicely done, Lew!

6 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Nicely done, Lew!

Thanks, Fred!

12 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Nicely done,

Well said. Looks OEM.

13 minutes ago, Dovetail said:

Well said. Looks OEM.

Thanks, my friend said he was happy. I wasn't really happy with the fit in a couple of places.

1 hour ago, lew said:

Done and gone! My friend will put on the finish to match the other furniture.

Well done Lew. Amazing how close the grain matched too. Would love to see after the finish is applied.

Nice gun too! Enjoyed following this project. Thanks.

Just now, Grandpadave52 said:

Would love to see after the finish is applied.

Me too! Hope he sends me a picture. He refinished the other parts.

1 hour ago, lew said:

I wasn't really happy

I leave perfection to God. She does a better job at it, anyway.

1 minute ago, Dovetail said:

I leave perfection to God. She does a better job at it, anyway.

True, Dat!

The drawer rail components from the curb-found two-drawer sideboard want flattening. Grooves are worn right deeply in three of the surfaces. One of the eight surfaces was planed out front. I'm rigging up a proper bench • Moxon • facsimile to allow smooth full-length planing. Without having to dodge the plane around a clamp.

 

This may be the first dovetail box; I hear the boards want to be the same thickness. It'll likely have a base nestled in a dado and eight pegs glued in the top and bottom corners. Perhaps no glue on the tails/pins joint. That's the idea, anyway.