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These planes are fitted with three adjustments. Adjustment nut or screw enables cutter to be fed out or in. Lateral adjustment lever gives correction if one corner projects more than the other. Mouth adjustment screw is used to enlarge or reduce width of mouth. Before it is used the frog fixing screws must be slackened and tightened again afterwards. In addition the back iron can be set to any requited distance from the cutting edge. For rough work this should be about a/16 in. and as close as you can get it for finishing difficult grain. In the Record “stay-set” back iron the screw need not be undone when sharpening. Note the thin part of the sole behind the mouth, enabling the frog to support the cutter regardless of the mouth width. In some cheap, faulty makes this is not done and cutter is unsupported when mouth is fine, causing plane to chatter on hard wood. — from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume I” published by Lost Art Press #The_WoodworkerTexture describes the roughness or smoothness of the wood to the touch and visually. Smoother woods are generally more lustrous in appearance whereas open-pored woods are duller. Oaks and other hardwoods with similar growth patterns such as chestnut and ash (image 1), which collectively are known as coarse or uneven textured woods, make ring-porous wood. In the spring, the tree lays down a ring of open-pored wood well-suited to transporting liquids and, during the summer, they create denser, less-porous wood. The difference in the ability of spring wood and summer wood to take in and conduct water is well demonstrated when the two types of wood are dyed as part of the wood finishing or polishing process. The open-pored spring wood soaks up wood dye more readily and generally darkens more than the summergrown wood darkens. The spring growth of some timbers is so coarse the pores are readily visible – red oaks are a good example. Semi-diffuse-porous or semi-ringporous woods like walnuts show some differentiation in the pore size between spring growth and summer-grown wood in which the spring growth exhibits larger pores than summer-grown wood, but the borderline between one zone and the next is blurred (image 2). — from “Cut & Dried: A Woodworker’s Guide to Timber Technology” by Richard Jones #Cut_and_DriedBuilding a chair in front of 90 polite, inquisitive and intelligent woodworkers (many of them engineers) will keep you on your toes. Speaking to the @mnwoodworkersguild is not for newbies (this is high praise). This is where we finished up making a chair today. Tomorrow we will finish it.@RudeMechanic on Twitter
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Category Archives: Charles H. Hayward at The Woodworker
Should Drawers Project, or Should They be Recessed Slightly?
This is an excerpt from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume II” published by Lost Art Press One of the perplexing questions which the cabinet maker appears to have never settled definitely is: should drawer fronts stand out slightly in front of … Continue reading
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Four Centuries of Drawer Making
This is an excerpt from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume II” published by Lost Art Press. The construction of a drawer seems a straightforward and fairly obvious piece of work; there is an accepted way of making it … Continue reading
An Interesting Old Bow-Saw
This is an excerpt from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume I” published by Lost Art Press. Recently we came across an old type of bow-saw which had been sent to a veteran village carpenter for repair. Its precise origin could … Continue reading
The Ideal Tool Cabinet
This is an excerpt from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume IV” published by Lost Art Press. A sense of orderliness in woodworking is an important factor contributing to good work. For instance, the bench should be clear of … Continue reading
Working a Moulding Around a Curved Edge
This is an excerpt from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume II” published by Lost Art Press The majority of woodworking operations are fairly obvious and, given practice, present no special difficulties. For example, to plane an edge straight, … Continue reading
Making the Twist Leg Without a Lathe
This is an excerpt from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume I” published by Lost Art Press. It may interest readers to know that the best twist-turned legs are still a combination of turning and carving, and that when they were … Continue reading
Door Construction: Five-Panelled Door
This is an excerpt from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume II” published by Lost Art Press. Although the five-panelled door described in this article may interest only a small section of our readers, the construction is applicable to … Continue reading
