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Make a riving brake for better leverage when splitting lumber

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Sophisticated. The tripod riving brake shown here is the sophisticated version of a contraption to help hold logs and billets as they’re split with a froe. Get some splitting leverage with this simple contraption. by Peter Follansbee R each for a froe, and you should immediately think, “Give me a brake.” The brake can be a constructed workholding device, or just a couple of logs. Its function is to trap your workpiece in such a way that you can exert leverage on a section of a log as it’s splitting. The froe – used to split a piece when it’s in a brake – is a tool that requires some nuance to really get the most from it; the brake helps make that happen. There are many kinds and configurations of brakes. The first one I learned is just a forked section of a tree, propped up with crossed timbers underneath. Forked. Here, a student is using a forked-tree brake as he rives oak with a froe. Jam your billet into the fork with its other e...
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17 Clever Tool Storage Ideas

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Posted on Feb 27, 2017 Once you use a tool, you set it aside and later wonder where you took it out from. Unfortunately, not all of us are as organized as we would like to be, or as our professions would demand. For instance, if you work with tools, you need to organize and store them correctly, but whoever does? If you’ve been wondering how your counterparts save time and energy just by being well-organized, take a leaf out of their book here. We present 17 innovative and surprisingly easy tool storage ideas that will make life easy for you. Choose any one or more of them depending on your space, need and time to make them: Create extra space on your work bench If your workspace is small and you need to accommodate your tools too, one great idea is to use your wall. Create a wall unit where you can stack up your tools. This gives you more room on your work bench and cabinets while organizing your tools and within your view. Check this great tool sto...
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Glue Ups & Grain Direction

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Gluing up could be a frantic time. And when you’re like me, it’ll be messy too. However how a lot ought to we be planning forward, earlier than we get all of it caught collectively? Once we glued up the highest for our Corridor Table construct, we acquired a couple of questions on this matter. They have been good queries, pondering over grain path and alternating progress rings. So I assumed we’d cowl this in somewhat little bit of element. The textual content ebook ideas on this: – All the time alternate the expansion rings on consecutive boards (for stability). – Attempt to make sure the grain runs in the identical course all through a glued board (for ease of planing). In an ideal world we’d comply with the above. However then we’d even have good clear boards, with good straight grain. Not often is something good. With the glue up in query, I used to be coping with some cherry boards that have been gnarly, sappy, and belonged on the ...
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