Is fishing any less productive in an economic sense? Get that $40,000 bass boat and the hours spent on the lake vs. going to a good fish market and those are the most expensive fish in the world.
And don't get me started on the vegetable garden.
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Is fishing any less productive in an economic sense? Get that $40,000 bass boat and the hours spent on the lake vs. going to a good fish market and those are the most expensive fish in the world.
And don't get me started on the vegetable garden.
Made some progress on the gouge. Still need to sand, heat treat, sand more, and make and mount a handle...
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Nice work. I forgot to answer your question about the gouge... the one I use most is approximately 30mm (1 3/16") wide and 9mm (3/8") deep (going just from memory) I think the diameter would be no more than 40mm (1 1/2"). Your gouge look too shallow for most tasks, I would bend it a bit more - heat it and hammer it around some steel plumbing pipe...
Here is my gouge in action: http://old.gjgt.sk/~minarovic/carving.avi (temporarily placed on backup server, if the link doesn't work in future use the same without the "old." prefix)
That cutting is only half work of gouge and other half is technique. You have to have your feet firmly on ground and use their strength and posture of torso helps deliver it to hands (I usually brace my right elbow against chest) and also rotation of gouge in wrist during cut creating slicing motion. I'm hogging away 3-5mm deep shavings of spruce 9-12mm wide (1/8"-3/16" x 3/8" - 1/2") overlapping the previous one by 1/3 width or so. Then few cleaning passes to emove ridges. The video shows roughing half of plate in few minutes. From there I would go to the thumbplane. You can get inside pretty smooth in less than 20 minutes with those two tools.
BTW that gouge is barely 1/16" thick hammered sheet of ordinary carbon steel.
Just finished up the gouge. I got a bit more curve to the blade before heat treat. I turned a handle from some walnut firewood from a tree that fell down at a friends house. I used a brass pipe fitting for a ferrule and finished it with some linseed oil and paste wax.
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I'm impressed. If you can make a mandolin that nice, you'll be in business soon!
Steve : Thank you for posting this. It's quite inspiring. (I'm plugging my bandsaw and sharpening my machete.)
I didn’t see a draw knife in Hogo’s picture. I use a draw knife a lot for ruffing necks and other round and oblong objects.
Being the kind of guy with concerns over cost control, I've made many of my own jigs, forms and tools.. when forming, I use 2x4s to press the bent rim parts.. I've made a few custom clamps.. what I'm most proud of is an over arm router used to cut the binding channel with sleds for both A and F style rims..