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131914 "Anne Watson" <anneb3@m...> 2004‑04‑08 Bio
Guess I better submit one.
Anne Watson, Tucson, Az.  Where wood dries and cracks on the way home from
the lumberyard.

Years ago someone showed me how to sharpen and old Stanley Pane and I have
been a user and collector ever since.

Not that there is a lot to choose from in Arizona.
Spent a few years working at an antique store where i managed to snag some
planes that were in pretty bad shape, Certainly nothing that a collector
would really want, but with the use of lots of vinegar got them back working
again.

Since spring has sprung again today, spent a couple of hours building a
mallet - filled with shot and using my Stanley 63 spokeshave to shape the
handle.  At first I could not get it to work at all but after my hands got
tired forcing it, all of a sudden it started taking off nice little
shavings.
Anne

----- Original Message -----
From: "hb" 
To: "oldtools" 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [oldtools] more deck questions

>
> SNIP
>   My concern is that while a wooden
> > pin has good sheer
> > resistance across its grain, and works well for
> > holding a tenon in its
> > mortise, I'm unsure how well it will hold if there
> > is a force pulling
> > the board directly away from the support member?
> >
> You could put a saw kerf in each end of each dowel so
> that it will accept a wedge, then your borings would
> need to be slightly enlarged toward their bottoms,
> then insert a wedge in each saw kerf so that the
> dowels expand slightly and lock into place when driven
> home.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> HB - it's raining again....
>
>
>
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