I am looking to be doing more acoustic guitar set-ups, modifications, minor repair and such, guitar tech type stuff .. really needs some good files (mine seemed to haver walked on off??), as I carve a alot of bone and fossil ivory nuts and saddles also, So I' m tarketing looking for practical double duty hand tools 1. small jewler's file sets, . 2. luthier fret files 3. violin knives, chisels
"wayne" <gustav1860@gmail.com> wrote in message news:541072a1-e02f-4a4e-adbd-0d68ced25c36@z16g2000prn.googlegroups.com... Hi I am rather new to wood working and saw a few chisels by the name of footprint UK, carl schlieper wood chisel, marple and a sorby They are all UK made except for the carl schlieper which is german. Anyone got experience with these? Do they hold an edge well
The phenomenon is not unique to woodworking, but it is common within this realm. I freely admit to the affliction, although with different perspective than yours. Many here refer to Lee Valley or Lie Nielsen tool catalogs as "tool porn", an obvious reference to addiction. And after I've honed/polished my chisels and plane irons to mirror finishes and scary-sharp tolerances, I'm sometimes reluctant
Neillarson wrote: I have been a woodworker for a while but never got into the hand tool craze, probably because I am a technologist by profession. Now that has changed, I have fallen in love with my chisels and Japanese saws, and I have been picking up a few chisels. Nothing fancy, a couple of wood Japanese planes, 1 a jack and the other a smoother. I also have 3 Groz, a 7, 5
On 23 Feb 2007 02:55:16 -0800, "Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote: On 22 Feb, 09:44, T i m <n...@spaced.me.uk> wrote: Well, true, but part of my original selection criteria was something small enough (or the right shape) to 'put away'. Then you're more disciplined than I am! Lathes are heavy, even the benchtops. Well, I'm not really, just don't have a lot of
