Some oak grain logs can be cleaved flat along the grain, if straight grained. I straightened a 20 inch carbon steel leaf spring from a truck and made a sharp edge on it. Truly heavy duty, can split a trunk into two flat pieces in one hit with a 10 lb hammer. Best to work with green wet oak if the job allows for shrinkage etc. Great basic work man.
The weight of half a trunk adds much stability and the splayed legs can be drilled deep for extra strength. No need to go to buy wood from local wood yard. Great as a seat too. I made the same bench and prefer sitting on my work pieces like the RZomans did, modern benches are too fancy and ‘too easy’, not manly so to speak.
yeeeeehawww ! youre well on your way son ! good luck out there ! i caught my first 6 inch crab and 6 inch crawdad this month ! great time for new hobbies !
Hello! I'm currently restoring one of these and the spring assembly that feeds the pencil/head to the right is missing. I don't suppose you've ever disassembled yours? If so, can you tell me how it works? I've looked through hundred of patents and can't find that specific one =/
Thanks for this video! Just found you after researching clog making knives! Keep at it my friend- excellent and Bravo! Subscribed! Any chance of you doing a "deep dive into the edge geometry you describe as a Scissor-Edge?
I found plenty of it up here in Connecticut recently. It took a little work but I was able to salvage a nice pile of small boards about 2 and a half inches wide by 3/4” thick. There’s plenty of solid wood to be found if you catch a 3-4” stump sprout right after it dies.
👎 а пробовали его заточить? судя по тому как туго он режет, он тупой как пробка. и ещё не помешает пружина под крюк. чтоб он не болтался как член в проруби.
Oh one other thing…pieces like to slide around as they did in yr video. Sometimes I clamp a strip of wood to my base or use an piece of thin carpet pad to solve that problem.
I made my own version of a stock knife. I removed the handles from a draw knife, attached a wooden handle on one end and twisted the other end into the hook. I love it and use it for cuts that would be much harder with other tools. Leverage is a wonderful thing.
Using the word relevant in a utube video is reason to be bounced off! We are studying people who tape themselves teaching others hopefully the correct methodology to perform a task. Iffn y’all want to show me the hillside in the distance to show flatlanders what they are missing, that there be most important knowledge. Or as more edumacated might claim, relevant. That end view shows a warped growth, possibly a lack of balanced growth in the formative years. Bad teacher? I beg to differ on the possibility of a wooden maul spallting a metal wedge. Get someone you don’t like to spend thousands of hours and hundreds of mauls to show you that is possible. I’ll wait......................Thanks for taking the time to show me me something this evening.
Isn’t the interlocked grain advantageous for structural integrity rather than straight grain which is more prone to splitting? Great video of an almost lost process. Your comments on Sloyd philosophy are valid, though it is also a known fact that the larger the chip is, the less energy is put into the process, and the quicker you get it to the final polishing. Shear cuts are the best to control, lessening the chances of splitting and ruining the item. Control is the key, and if you were just using a knife we could see the same amount of work literally hours and hours later. Wonderful build, you can always polish the blade when you are bored, but wouldn’t that take away from the idea? Good on ya!
Such a great tool. You get remarkable leverage and control. This basic design could be adapted for lots of uses. I’m working in my head on a tool that uses an axe for the blade and handle to cut up kindling.
Hi buddy, nobody is perfect, Nor is anything that man has made. You did a great job. Quit beating yourself up. I want you to make me a stock knife. wanderer2020@mail.com
