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I have been working with wood since I could stumble into the shop with my dad. Several years ago, I moved into a house without space for a full shop, so I decided to take up all hand tool woodworking. That started a whole new passion for woodworking.
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Wood By Wright P.O. Box 10131 Loves Park, IL 61131
Back when I was building custom kitchens step one was to go to the customers house and make story poles of the room dimensions...length, depth and height. Back at the shop the first few hours were spent ripping up a batch of 1 1/2" wide strips of quarter inch birch plywood to make story sticks out of. I'd use the story poles to make story sticks with the birch plywood strips. Depending on the size of the project it took anywhere from a few hours to a few days to create a complete full scale layout of every component. Once those story sticks were created I never touched a ruler…the sticks were used to layout anything that needed to be measured. This totally eliminated mistakes plus once I was finished those story sticks got bundled up and stored and if down the road somebody needed something like a cabinet door replicated I wouldn't even have to go back to the job, I'd just go into the pile of story sticks and build from that with complete assurance the item would be correct. Story sticks rule! I'm retired now and will soon be moving and downsizing my shop. It has been really fun to look back through this inventory of projects...before I toss all that history on a burn pile. 😃
Honestly, I had no idea you could even make a screw with just a chisel and saw. You really gotta wonder how long its been since this was common practice!
I flush all the rags down the toilet. Then I pour at least a few litres of bleach down afterwards. You dont really need to flush the bleach down, but its funny.
Interesting. I was thinking of making yard sticks, and I was worrying about bowing in the boards. And it looks like you're saying it's not really an issue, beside esthetics.
That is a brace. Traditionally the drill is what went in it as part of the bit, but now we refer to the driving Device as the drill. It is fun how names change!
Hello, Mr. Wright; Very good video, James. Maybe like you, I try to avoid measuring & transfer dimensions. I appreciate your 'showing your work', as the teacher said. BTW, I'll email later, I want your help w/ a project. Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!
Ain't watched yet just finishing up a reenactment hatchet handle n just wanted to shout out the card scraper, it's beautiful tiny curls and how well it cleans up tool marks for a gorgeous finish that's all lol
With those bent pieces of would, this put me in mind of that video you made on a bow file. Instead of a lipped ruler I think it wood be better to call it a "bow ruler". Does that count as a snide remark?
Nice job as always. Also, you may have talked about in an earlier video, I really like the manual drill press(there may be a technical name for it but not sure what it is.😏)
That would be really pretty with a brass insert for the rule rather than the sticker. I know it's heresy here, but the brass would pop nicely with walnut instead of white oak.
Would it be possible to make some kind of stencil for the measurements? Perhaps from .1" sheet metal that could act as a heat shield and then you hit the whole thing with a torch and the markings are burned into the wood where there is no metal covering it. When are you coming back to homemade BLO?
That could be fun. Jeff is actually making a roller that you can push the rod through and it will cut all of the marks into the wood for you. I'm really interested to see how that comes out.
