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RossJarvis:
Thought I'd better check out if I could find the mortiser in the "climate controlled" stores...yep, there she is under the generator;
Now for phase 1, installing on the workbench in the carpentry workshop;
Hmmm, better check the weather forecast before I do any more :doh:
Oh yes, now where did I put the mortising bits??? :bang:
PekkaNF:
Sounds nice. If the house has timberframe features, making the wood storage somewhat same style is very good starting point. Make it look traditional, but if you don't have traditional tools, use anything you have.
I like using firewood. Tell your wife that she is absolutely right. :wave:
If my memory serves right oak eats iron and iron nails tend to turn ugly black spots. One thing to check.
Here trated wood composition has changes so many times I have lost track when to use stainless, when to use palstic coated etc...Older treatments used to have metalic salts (yuk.) and they eat normal passivated or even galvanized screvs like you could actually hear them rusting. Then they got more enviromental and that ate stanless steel.....
Can't wait to see how it comes up. Sounds promissing.
Pekka
Pete W.:
--- Quote from: RossJarvis on August 19, 2013, 02:56:03 AM ---
SNIP
Then I'll get out the saw, slick and callipers and by the end of the week I expect to have an entire workshop up and PeteW can come round to install three phase :thumbup:
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Sorry, Ross, I can't do 'install' and/or 'three phase' ! :bang: :bang: :bang: Blame John Prestcott and his Part P! Besides, three phase can bite! :zap: :zap: :zap:
Three phase used to be RED :zap: YELLOW :zap: BLUE :zap: but now it's BROWN :zap: BLACK :zap: GREY :zap: (Oops, the palette doesn't have a grey!)
(Or is it BLACK :zap: BROWN :zap: GREY :zap: ?)
I didn't know you had a mortice machine. If you can't find the bits, I have a set that might fit. They came as an extra with my Axminster drill press. Do I gather you might also need to borrow a couple of planes and an oilstone?
John Stevenson:
--- Quote from: RossJarvis on August 19, 2013, 12:01:26 AM ---
The main reason I actually want to make it is to practice making mortice and tenon joints in a local house building style from about 300 - 800 years ago.
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By God that mortiser looks to be in good nick for a 300 to 800 year old machine :Doh:
RossJarvis:
I will admit that the mortiser is a modern reproduction :palm:
Yes Pekka, if I had a car, I'd collect logs for firewood and split 'em myself. However, the Health and Safety laws have changed and we're no longer allowed our ancient common right to collect fallen wood from the forests! Too many people have cut off limbs with chainsaws apparently (I thought that that was what they were for!)
Our house is not timber framed, but many in the village are, so it is in keeping with the locality.
Anyway, mortiser fettled and fitted to machinery bench, just need to square the fence and plumb in the electrons, however as I said my square and verniers are now on holiday with a financial consultant in tool kits No1 & 2, so I need to find two wotsits of equal length to square off the support thingies.
Luckily the weather forecast is good for today :med:
PeteW, if you think you're having trouble with your shed you should see mine;
I've been waiting four years for the "Sky Hooks" to arrive. Once they're here I can install the roof, plumb down the corners to lay a floor and then build the walls. (That's what I told the beloved wife anyway) :scratch:
Thanks for the offer of tools, The mortice bits (chisels?) were in tool kit No3, but I'm down to my last five planes, which might see me through and I've got four grades of Japanese waterstones for a nice edge. (if you look carefully to the left of the morticer you can see a couple of old retired beech planes, I don't count these as usable any more).
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