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Since I got the new lathe set up my sharpening system that resided at the end of my old lathe needed a new home.
The current stand being table top was a bit too short to use properly.
I decided the best bet was a quick and simple stand. Built out of some left over 2
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A couple of years ago, I was rummaging through a dusty box of vintage tools at an estate sale. My wish list at the time included a Stanley #80 cabinet scraper. I wanted something for wily-grained woods. That’s because my smoothing planes did as much tearing out as they did smoothing of those species. So when I saw this beauty, I dug deep in my pocket for the $3.00 dollars we agreed upon.
It had a few peculiarities. Like this homemade “iron” that obviously came from an old sawplate.
And a sole that clearly was out of flat.
Still, there was nothing to do but clean her up…
…and lap the sole.
After sharpening and burnishing the iron with a screwdriver, I set it in and put a piece of pine in my vise. And got crap results. A shallow depth setting made dust. A thick one left gouges in the wood surface. A bit deflated, I set it aside. Then, off and on for the next few months, I would fettle this abomination some more in the vain hopes of restoring it to working condition.
No dice.
The not-so-flat sole bugged me. And since I couldn’t lap out the 1/8” of difference between the front and back of it, I figured that I would bend the cast iron sole into flat.
And I must say. This approach worked perfectly…to break my prize.
As Forrest Gump would say, “Stupid is as stupid does.” I think that it took a whopping 0.0005 foot pounds of pressure to snap the sole. And the sound of the iron breaking, that high-pitched “pink”, made me sick to my stomach. Not to mention how the knowledge that I had destroyed a vintage tool with decades of history etched upon its soul gnawed at me.
I tried to put it out of my mind, but found that the only thing that would ease the feeling would be to buy a new one and start from scratch. So it was to Ebay I went, where I picked up this honey for 10 times what I paid for my original.
I’m fond of Stanley type 11 planes made around WWI. I believe that this time period represents a zenith for tool makers. Those were the days that they combined patented tool features, superior materials, and craftsmanship to give birth to millions of quality tools. Implements of such excellence that three generations hence they still sit atop woodworkers’ benches amidst shavings and sawdust. Well, except for the one I got ahold of…
So when I saw the V-logo on the back blade retention strip, I knew it dated this plane to around 1912-1918. I had to have it.
It didn’t come with a blade, but that suited me just fine because I purchased a LV replacement blade for my now broken tool. And of course, I still have the user-made-sawplate blade that came with the original.
The new #80 sole responded well to lapping.
Excellent. That removed one potential variable from the reasons-I-can’t-get-a-decent-shaving-with-a-cabinet-scraper list. The next variable that came to mind was burnishing. Chances are I wasn’t turning a decent hook. My reading on the subject suggested that I was using burnishers that were too soft to affect today’s hardened steel. So to eliminate this as a possibility, I picked up a harder-than-steel, carbide burnisher.
After using it I was, miraculously and suddenly, able to take decent shavings.
Decent, but not great so there’s room to improve my technique. But at least now, I have a tool to reach for when the wood’s grain gets to tricky for my smoother.
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A Great Weekend woodworking Project! The Wood Pyramid Puzzle Try this one one you will get all kinds of people trying to figure out this Mind Blower!!!
Check out this video you will love it!
Mess with your friend this weekend and see if they can build this during the super bowl!
CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO AND SEE!!!
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I just received my new logo stamps and thought that I would share them with you all. They are made by Columbia marking tools or CMT right here in Michigan. These are really nice high quality stamps, the tips are hardened but the striking end is not so they don’t shatter when struck with a hammer. They where roughly $100.00 each.
I ordered 2 different sizes. here they are as I received them, they where coated in wax to protect them.
Each stamp is marked with what they are.
Great detail on these stamps.
First strike in some aluminum.
Some of my tools stamped before they will be black oxide coated.
The detail is pretty good with these stamps I think.
These would also be great for knife makers. They work really well, just make sure they are flat before you wack em with a hammer, you get one shot. Too hard to try and line them up for another hit if you are not flat. Ask me how I know this, lol.
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I took the panels and the legs and I cut biscuit slots. I thought I took pictures but don’t find any so I glued the panels and legs together.
Both ends done.
I decided to use dowels to hold the ends to the stretcher. The plan was to run screws through the panels and then plug the hole. I opted not to do it that way.
I used dowel centers to mark the stretcher.
I then glued the undercarriage together.
Then i had to set the bench seat on to see what it looked like.
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A tip from my Travel + Leisure hotline: If seeing the Great Wall of China is at the top of your bucket list, you can stay practically within touching distance of i, and in great style, at Commune by the Great Wall. In 2001, a dozen prominent Asian architects were invited to build their dream villas at the site. Considered a new Chinese wonder, the resort has since grown into an enclave of 35 dramatic contemporary houses, some rented by the night in their entirety, some offering individual hotel rooms. As Traveler describes it, “In a poetic juxtaposition, your view presents what China was—a stronghold against the world—whereas your villa represents what it’s poised to be: a dynamic, forward-thinking force.” Our pick of the lodgings: Japanese architect Kengo Kuma’s dreamy Bamboo Wall house, which proved so popular, Commune constructed six replicas of it. Here’s the original:
Photographs via Commune by the Great Wall, unless noted.
Above: Part of the structure is built over a pool of water (though the replicas rise over a gravel garden). The walls are constructed of bamboo canes spaced to allow in light. The walkway leads to a very memorable setting for tea.
Above: The house’s six bedrooms have futons resting on tatami mats. In this one, a wooden kimono rack serves as sculpture and a place to drape clothes.
Above: The design of the house was inspired by classic Chinese construction and by the rambling Great Wall itself, which rises as part of the landscape. Kengo Kuma writes that he consciously called his design a wall, not a house, and adds: “The Great Wall in the past partitioned off two cultures, but this Bamboo Wall would not only partition but also unite life and culture.”
Above: A bamboo ceiling, walls, and supports in the dining room. (The house has a kitchen, but we were informed by the hotel that it’s ornamental, and that there are two restaurants on site, one Chinese, the other Western style.) Photograph via Inspiration Green.
Above: Bamboo of many widths was employed, including bamboo cups for accessories.
Above: In a bedroom, a modern version of a classic Chinese low seat is situated windowside.
Above: After hiking on the Great Wall and touring the other houses on the property, your own lounge awaits with views of the Shuiguan Mountains. Photograph via Inspiration Green.
Commune by the Great Wall is an hour and 15 minute drive from the Beijing airport. It has its own private path to a verdant, unrestored part of the Badaling section of the Great Wall. The original Bamboo Wall house sleeps 12 and rents for RMB15,000 (approximately $2,460 per night, or about $200 per person, plus a 15 percent service charge). Individual rooms are available in the Bamboo Wall house replicas for RMB2480 (approximate $406). To see the range of houses and hotel rooms available, go to Commune by the Great Wall.
Ready to live with bamboo? See our Remodeling 101 post: The Mystery of Bamboo Floors Revealed and Gardenista’s Bamboo: The Re-Think. For more of our favorite lodgings the world over, peruse our Hotels & Lodgingposts, including Beautiful Ruin: The Waterhouse in Shanghai.
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well now, I was going to post monthly entries about what’s up with me.
I’m not doing too well am I? 
Much of nothing has happened, a lot. then all of a sudden everything happens all at once! eh? what’ up with that?
I have 4 projects to talk about. need more photo’s.
let’s all see if I can do it
and some commissions from (of all places) the local needlepoint supply shop.
And I started working at this place called NEXT Fab. It is a “membership” workshop; full woodshop, machine shop, 3d printers, laser cutters, the works. lets see what happens.
www.nextfabstudio.com
next up! ?
“Medieval” blanket chest
game table chair chest! the turducken of furniture!
homemade finger planes.. really you can make them yourself!
My christmas present! Gramercy tools turning saw Kit
let’s get focussed!
Karl
Kai
or
Dusty
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Thirty years ago, I met Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown of Tsao & McKown Architects when I went to scout and then shoot their first apartment on Central Park West for House & Garden magazine. We became fast friends fast. For the past 20 years, they’ve lived a bit further north in a duplex with similarly panoramic views of the park. Both places have been the scene of many a celebration large and small. And both have, for me, been sources of intrigue and inspiration, from deft architectural moves to the smallest curiosity. But apartments, even though they exercise the muscles that deal with confines, don’t demonstrate the full dimension of architectural thinking and practice. For that, I had to wait to see the house in Piedmont, tucked in the eastern hills of San Francisco Bay, that Calvin and Zack designed for Calvin’s parents and his three siblings and their families as a gathering place.
A single building that reads as a compound, the 2007 house reflects the bi-coastal (West coast of the U.S., east “coast” of Asia) orientation of the Tsao family. “Familial togetherness is at the core of traditional Chinese life, but we were also addressing contemporary (as in American) life,” says Calvin. “We all have our own sense of community and privacy.” So the archetypal Chinese house that accommodates different branches of a family and different generations in architectural wings and nodes, always with a courtyard at its core, mutated into a cluster of four connected buildings with a three-story volume of space serving as the central court (and dining room). At once simple and complex, the plan provides separate quarters for the parents and each of the siblings, while uniting their suites via interlocking communal spaces. The very thing that beautifully serves all members of the family, that blend of alone and together, makes it also ideal for a reunion of friends, as I discovered on a happy visit not long ago.
Photographs by Richard Bryant (Arcaid), courtesy of Tsao & McKown.
Above: Principles of feng shui guided the siting of the cedar-clad house, located in a glen just down the hill from a house Calvin’s uncle has occupied since the 1970s. Its footprint falls lightly on the ground, its orientation is toward the southeast, its positioning is parallel to a stream.
Above: Highly-textured pavers recycle small granite stones salvaged from villages lost to the Three Gorges Dam project in China. Calvin and Zack had the stones set on edge in cast concrete, then installed them in a checkerboard pattern leading to the front steps.
Above: What appear to be ancient Chinese artifacts in the garden are in fact the work of a student at the Cranbrook Academy of Art that Calvin discovered on a visit for a design crit. The cast concrete forms explode in scale the weave of a Chinese textile.
Above: Rectangular cedar-framed windows surround one of the entries. Though it looks like an Asian antique, the old-fashioned doorbell is actually a rusty gas canister cut in half, and inside the door, what resembles a highchair is a Korean altar.
Above: The dining room is the heart of the house, an enclosed version of the courtyard at the core of a traditional Chinese house. The wall hanging features an antique Chinese bedspread “preserved” in a resin solution and is the creation of Calvin’s friend, Milanese artist Luisa Cervese. Around the cerused oak table, ebonized Deco chairs could easily be Chinese but are French. Above the table, sections of silk parachutes from World War II soften the light from the bamboo-framed fixtures.
Above: Origami meets architecture in the living room’s fireplace bay, which folds out then back in. The gold chairs by the hearth are Calvin’s father’s favorite spot when he’s in residence. Flared sections of wall that emerge like capitals house uplights. Ombré is a favored motif in Chinese rugs; in the rug designed for the living room, the warm tones in its midsection seem to extend the reach of the hearth.
Above: An island lined with a stools modeled after Chinese antiques divides the all-stainless steel kitchen from the eating area, where everyone gravitates. The round lacquered table has a generous built-in lazy susan for serving family-style meals. A canted niche set into a wall of cabinetry turns a window onto a planted hillside into a painting, a nod to the Chinese respect for nature.
Above: Stair landings become balconies overlooking the interior court of the house. The highest ones lead to individual bedroom suites. Throughout, wooden floors are fumed bamboo. For the low-down on bamboo flooring, see our recent Remodeling 101 post: The Mystery of Bamboo Floors Revealed.
Above: In the parents’ study, uniformly-framed photographs capture the family across the decades, including glamorous shots of Mr. and Mrs. Tsao taken in Shanghai in the ‘40s and a picture of Calvin, a global citizen even at age five, dressed in a kilt and playing a toy bagpipe.
Above: In one of the sisters’ bedrooms, a wall painted deep olive balances the natural greenery framed by the opposite wall of windows. Floating shelves feature built-in bookends. Every bedroom has smart spacial moves—here an “insert” of twin closets form a vestibule to the bathroom—as well as doses of saturated color. A blanket or coverlet at the foot of the bed, in this case a brightly-striped Moroccan rug, is an easy way to introduce bright color.
Above: Walls are rarely just walls in Tsao and McKown’s residential work. Rows of closets and cabinets not only provide ample storage but form solids and voids that create discrete spaces, such as a bay for a bed and a niche for a television. Calvin found the music panels above the bed in a Hudson, NY, antiques shop and the Chinoiserie floor lamp at a Paris flea market. The deep orange bedside lamps are native Californians.
Above: Tiles in varied shades of celadon switch direction as they move from floor to wall. The shower curtain hangs from a ceiling-mounted hospital track with space between curtain and ceiling for ventilation. Setting the medicine cabinet into a niche larger than the cabinet itself creates additional spaces for toiletries, clearing the sink counter of clutter.
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Above: A view toward the entry foyer demonstrates Tsao & McKown’s interest in—and deftness with—solids and voids.
Above: The plan for the ground floor shows the dining room at the center with satellite structures—the living room, kitchen, and bedrooms—radiating off it.
Above: The second floor is devoted to bedrooms suites.
We’re longstanding fans of Tsao & McKown’s work. Their Eastern-influenced remodel of a New York townhouse is spotlighted in one of our earliest Architect Visit posts. Also see Steal This Look: Tsao & McKown Dining Room.
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