I was excited to find the first issue of the Fine Tool Journal E-Newsletter in my e-mail box today. Every issue has a segment they call “Reach for a Stanley”, where they focus on a lesser-written about Stanley. Chris Schwarz has the honours in this issue. Here is a link to the main page:
http://www.finetoolj.com/newsletter/index.html
Edit: The “Reach for a Stanley” link on the prior page does not work. Here is a link provided by Samson: http://www.finetoolj.com/newsletter/jan09/stanley.html
Chris @ www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com
(soon to be www.flairwoodworks.com)
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Edited 1/18/2009 1:11 pm by flairwoodworks
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I think your link is bad? Try this:
http://www.finetoolj.com/newsletter/jan09/stanley.html
It's a good basic article. I was glad he mentioned:
Because the joint will rarely be truly centered on the board, you need to be aware that the face side of the board changes depending on what joint you are cutting. When you cut one half of the joint, the face side will be facing you, the user. When you cut its mate, the face side will be facing away from you. This is critical when making a cabinet back that will show.
It took me a few mistakes to figure this out - but perhaps I'm just slow.
Samson,
"It took me a few mistakes to figure this out - but perhaps I'm just slow."
I am that way with my sins too...
Metod
Thanks for that..It wouldn't work for me either. An interesting little article,though.
I don't know about you being slow, similar boo boos have been made around these here parts also! :-)
Robin
I saw a Lie-Nielsen version of this at their recent show. They did make some changes so perhaps they are fixing some of the problems. The demo of the plane looked interesting
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