Spokeshave fundamentals
Chairmaker Peter Galbert takes you through the different types of spokeshave, how to tune them, where to use each type, and which ones he likes best.
Synopsis: Take your handplane skills “off road” with the versatile, fun, and funky spokeshave. These tools can help you rapidly shape wood to the curves you need, leaving a finish-ready surface behind. Peter Galbert takes you through the different types of spokeshave, how to tune them, where to use each type, and which ones he likes best.
When I picked up a spokeshave for the first time, I felt like all the fun, control, and empowerment I’d looked for in handplanes was finally at my fingertips. Since then, spokeshaves have become integral to my work; they can do things my bench planes can only dream of. I can rapidly shape wood to the curves I want while leaving a finish-ready surface behind. I consider them the off-road vehicles of the handplane family.
Knowing how to choose, tune, and use spokeshaves is key to getting the most out of them.…
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The link to the PDF of this article is broken (25/9/2020).
Lataxe
Where is the pdf file? There is no file.
I just looked at the digital "flip" edition of this issue and found that it is complete....full of articles which are either not listed here, and/or have no pdf files here. Why am I paying for electronic access to nothing????
Ottertail,
Like you just found, you have access to the full issue the day it comes out. But the individual article PDFs come out over the course of a few weeks.
Missed the comments. Sorry about that. Should be fixed now.
Ben
Thanks for the explaination. Call it a personal quirk, but I prefer to download the pdf articles to read and to build my home reference library. By using my own classification system, I can find pdfs of the articles that I need, when I need them. Too bad I can't update my FWW archive that I bought a few years back. I should have waited for the day that I drop this subscription before buying the archive. That is why I dislike "flip" magazines - they are not downloadable. I am curious why there is such a lag in posting titles and the links to the pdf articles?
Regards
There are a bunch of reasons I do it that way. SEO, and the ability to feature each article prominently on the homepage are the two key factors though.
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