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How not to make a Japanese style toolbox
Stilldrillin:
Well done Ross! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
I really enjoyed the journey, and the entertaining commentary....... Thank you! :thumbup:
David D
SwarfnStuff:
A Most enjoyable, informative, and well written journey into the realms of sawdust and shavings. The rebates sound a good idea, cos you will forget to retract the blade one day. That is if you're anything like me who says to himself, "Self, Don't forget to slacken off the drive belt on the mill when you finish today". Then gets busy doing other stuff.). :doh: incidentally, do you need a hand trolley to move it all when full???? Thanks again for the post.
John B
mattinker:
--- Quote from: RossJarvis on October 12, 2013, 03:19:35 PM ---Thanks for the comment Matthew :thumbup:.
I always try and retract the blade before storing a plane, I lay them on their sides in use. I had thought of little blocks under the planes, but I'm very tight on clearance at the top, so the intention is to chisel a rebate for the "mouth" in case I forget. Actually two rebates, so the planes can go in either way round.
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I suspect that you know more about wood working than your letting on! But there would be no fun in it otherwise!
Regards, Matthew.
PekkaNF:
Ok, it startted as a japanese style toolbox and became general philosophy to the love of this art! Great journey.
Only thing I wonder: Do you need a forklift to lift that? Then you probably should resort to correctly rated slings and lifting eye bolts :lol:
I'll get hernia just looking it. I didn't realize it is so large and loaded with iron ore.....japanese planes tend to made out pf wood.
Pekka
RossJarvis:
Thank you for your comments Pekka, Matthew and John :thumbup:
Good Idea, Pekka, I wonder if I can make a forklift out of wood? Alternatively I can stick wagon wheels on it and harness up the "apprentice". I am considering Japanese planes for lightness. If I stick my other four metal planes in, I can imagine that box aint going nowhere.
Matthew, I'll admit to knowing some stuff about woodwork from books and night school, but I'm currently trying to convert the "head knowledge" into hand skills and practical working. That's the hard bit and I have a long way to go. The ideal would to be like an old school Japanese Carpenter (see Toshio Odate's books), where you turn up with six tools in a box and then build an entire wooden house, perfectly executed, without plans. I realised I'd become a collector of tools and hardly ever got round to using them. I'm now trying to work on the minimum number of tools I can get away with and maximise their use (or at least use them!). Not having a shed is a bit of a hindrance.
John, you're supposed to slacken the mill drive belt :Doh: I'd got as far as forgetting to slacken the vises and lathe tailstock locks.
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