August QnA 2023

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The monthly QnA. Come ask your questions, and I will try my best to answer. • Upcoming events: https://www.woodbywright.com/tool-events • Sep. 1-2nd Hand Works Amana IA https://handworks.co/ • Sep. 10th Frankfort, IL https://mwtca.org/new-tool-meeting-pa... • Sep. 16th Raleigh NC https://mwtca.org/new-tool-meeting-pa... • Sep. 28-30th MWTCA National meet Des Moines IA: https://mwtca.org/new-tool-meeting-pa... • 00:00:00 Weekly update and news • 03:00 Can you attach a handle to a rasp with a “beaver tail” tang? Opossum Piper: • 04:00 How to use an undersized mortise chisel if I don't have the right size? Nicholas Todd: • 06:00 What (in your experience) is the selection for user-quality tools at HANDWORKS? Capthoke784: • 09:00 Well here’s the question…. So where would we find a schedule for Handwork’s? Kenny-Anjanette Horn: • 10:00 sometimes with a flatsawn board of ring-porous wood, the ring pores can be rough like tear out. any tips aside from wood filler for making it as smooth as possible? ®️yan: • 13:00 What’s your opinion on crank neck chisels, are they necessary for dados? Or would a router plane suffice? Jean-Luc Desselle: • 15:00 Can u earn a living, building furniture? Ros Sanctuary: • 18:00 have you seen the bench dog no 1 plane? I bought one and it's a pretty good little plane for only $120.00. James Cary: • 20:00 how do you restore your planes by part? also what about the paint? I just got 3 of them and I want to restore them. Alex Eggers: • 22:00 How would you go (and would you try it) doing a half-lap dovetail except shaped like a jigsaw piece? Warren Munn: • 24:00 can you recommend a nice mid-price spokeshave? Daniel Grabske: • 25:00 Should I make or buy my router plane? Jake Callen: • 31:00 What would you recommend for a good first project for someone who's just got into hand tool woodworking? Winterwizzard1221: • Margaret Altvater: I bought a Stanley no 48 swing fence tongue and groove for $10. great shape no cutters. what size cutters will it take? smallest to largest • 32:00 Lost Art Press said that the organizers might stop Handworks because it's too much work to schedule. As someone who can't attend this year I am worried. What's your take on it continuing? Andrew Gonzales: • Warren Munn: Has James worked out the difference between Horizontal and Vertical yet? • 33:00 I keep dithering on if I really need want a bandsaw as my 1 major powertool for my small garage hobby shop, I KNOW I can Resaw a 12 foot beam by hand .. I don't need to do it every time ...? Thoughs ? MagisD: • 35:00 Making Ash TV stand with Chocolate color Rubio. Ash test board barely took the color after 2 coats. I water popped after 220 and got the color. Any other ways to get it to take the color better? Other than going to lower grit because the person likes it smooth Alex Adams - Type A Woodworking: • 37:00 Can you rejapan? 1romcat: • 39:00 where is a good place to see a lot of different designs for furniture? i'm looking to make shelves and want to see the different ways they can be made luke: • 41:00 what is the best way to make 45 degree edge on a thin board ? I am a very beginner and trying to make an donkey's ear with hand tools but I can't just make it precise enough, any tips? nahid akram • 47:00 I'm a junior in high school and I'm wondering how I might make a living working with hand tools. Any recommendations or tips to get started? Is this too subjective a question to answer? thanks Zachary Howard • 50:00 Can I steam bend dense woods like ebony and purple heart using glued veneers? Need more details before I'm get steam coming out of my ears:) ariel Heller: • 52:00 Billybob Holcomb: What is a good substitute for gopher wood? • 53:00 Alexander Wilson: thoughts on wood density for spokeshaves? making the Veritas spokeshave kit and have some very dense katalox. Do you prefer the rosewood spokeshave you made, or would something like cherry be better? • 54:00 Margaret Altvater: Hey James, i bought a stanley no 48 t g swing fence for $10. great shape no cutters. what size cutters will it take. small to widest? • 56:00 I’ve been looking to buy a cheap plane to do most of the work as I am starting to get into woodworking - any recommendations? Illinois Guitar Pickin: • 59:00 Do you have a video for Japaning? greg preston:

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