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  1. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    Thanks for all the kind comments.
  2. Dr.Al

    Football

    I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment, but I'm surprised at it from you. I would have expected it to be the right shape, but the wrong size ball for you 😉
  3. Dr.Al

    Make a workshop knife from a reciprocating saw blade.

    Use a brand new one to cut up a ceramic tile. Then you'll have a suitably worn out one 🤣
  4. Dr.Al

    The Bas…..s got me 11 times

    When I was about 10, I was walking in the woods near our house with a friend and climbed over a fallen tree. The tree had a wasps nest hidden in it and I inadvertently trod on it. The wasps chased my friend and me all the way home and we both got stung loads of times (I didn't count). Ever...
  5. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    After dinner I got impatient and decided to go and have a look at the joint. I took all the clamps off, then clamped the part to the workbench so I could hit the clamping block without putting any force through the dovetail joint: With a couple of whacks the paper split: To plane the...
  6. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    To give consistent shapes to the wedges and the ends of the tenons, I 3D-printed a couple of marking gauges and used them to pencil some curves onto the parts: Those little arrows on the wedge marking guide are just there as a sanity check: the pencil lines I drew on the wedge (above and...
  7. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    I suspect the "product" will be a bit of a disappointment at the end, but hopefully it'll serve a useful purpose.
  8. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    Thanks Andy; I'm always grateful for comments like that. I'm pretty sure someone on here as previously told me that 10° is too steep for a wedge (I probably should have remembered that :oops:😊). In this case, however, I think it'll be okay. It feels fairly firm in the joint and I'm planning...
  9. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    This morning I had a very pleasant session with the music on and the chisels out. I didn't take many photos, but this was part way through chopping out the mortices: I was really pleased with the fit. It needed a tiny bit shaving off the end of one of the tenons, but that was it: With...
  10. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    The other end of the pin board is going to get joined to another piece of wood with a tusked mortice and tenon. I'd been considering using some contrasting wood for this bit but in the end I decided to keep it nice and simple and make the whole thing out of Sycamore. To that end, I Ryoba'd a...
  11. Dr.Al

    Spitfire !

    Coincidentally, a P51 flew over our house about 1/2 hour ago
  12. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    I agree that yours is better than his for normal dovetails (I built something like yours into the Moxon vice on my portable workbench). I've no idea what DC uses for normal dovetails (I don't think I've seen his videos on the subject). For the Secret Mitre ones, you need to be on the inside of...
  13. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    Thanks Andy. I remember saying a few years ago that I could never imagine making one of these joints (mainly because it seemed a shame to hide the joinery away). Shows what I knew! No jigs or trial fitting sounds like a completely different league to anything I could even aspire to, let alone...
  14. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    I didn't know anyone had made any guesses as to what I'm making 🤷‍♂️
  15. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    ??? A denial of what?
  16. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    This is the only reference I can find in either of my two Wearing books: Here's David Charlesworth's: Described by him as "quite simply, two bits of MDF or ply, screwed together and braced at 90°"
  17. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    The one DC used was much cruder than that. Just plywood with a brace. Yours would be better for normal dovetails but the fence would get in the way for secret mitre ones I think (it sits flat on the bench).
  18. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    Thanks. I'll give that a go. No spoilers; you'll have to wait and see... (in all seriousness, it's not that exciting, just seemed a good opportunity to try out the joint)
  19. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    This morning I got on with the tail board. I put some masking tape on the face of the board and then used this set-up to transfer the edges of the pins across to the tail board: David Charlesworth used a "Robert Wearing tranfer jig" (presumably from one of Wearing's excellent books). The...
  20. Dr.Al

    What Birds Have You Seen Today

    We have buzzards nesting in the woods behind the house so see them most days. I've seen buzzards staying still aloft a lot of times, but it's a very different hover to a kestrel. The kestrel flaps it's wings very fast to stay on the spot, the buzzard sits on the updraft from the wind hitting...
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