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No, I'll never forget about the japanese saws, let it be ryobas, dozukis, katabas, temagoris or maebikis. They all have one merit. They pulled me to handsawing. But I never succeeded that much. It always lacked a tad. My temagori was fine, I could sit in the saw teeth myself, pulling and fihting, the game always was chance. I have to avoid I changed the sides. I'm European, maybe it is the reason, I got on well with a western saw. Western saws were a revelation to me, they are great. Look at this pic - a tenon:

I followed the markings, no problem there. Mike, the saw I won, is a little dull, I have to admit. And the holy cow, I do not appreciate to sharpen it. I guess, you have to leave the continent - big smile on my side. No, being serious again, I'm - despite read knowledge - astonished on the backside of the cut. You saw the top, the front and it will leave you the back straight - without any look at it:

The saw cut always follows the marking. I don't know why, but it always is accurate, if you use a western saw. Let it be. Finally I have to admit I failed to the japanese saws. What I have to acknowledge is, I made the shoulder cuts prior the rip cuts in order to release the latters. Hey, it works okay. Delimitations are more accurate, depth is reached more easily.

More a tad later...

Folies

Working on the table top yesterday I discovered some advantage of collector's behaviour. Some time ago I ordered a 2 inch bench chisel from Sorby and because the paring chisels looked that cute I went for a 1 1/4 too. I sharpened it, hang it in the cabinet and - forgot. Til yesterday when I was choping 1/4 inch wide mortises. Having to recut a side I grabbed for the LN bench chisel, it was too thick, far over 1/4 inch for my 5 cm deep mortice. Now that was a great moment having in the pocket my paring chisel - flexible blade, very thin, ideal for paring into the depth. So folies have a their good sides and I will never again blame me for Lustkäufe again.

Sofa Table Starting

No time for tools anymore, a whole day - Labor Day - has to be spent on a bigger project. The first pic shows the American cherry I got last week. 4,20m long and 27mm thick - some nice boards I tought. One thing though, cherry tends to have small inclusions of bark. The latter often ends into cracks. Thank God I bought enough :-)

Second pic shows the rough blanks of the legs. I paid attention to chose a plank that got me bastard grain on the legs without much resawing. Bastard grain runs from one edge to its diagonally opposite counterpart. The legs - well the planed part, not the turned one - will look uniformely, not changing grain frome one face to its adjacent one. On the pic the good planks are those 4 on the right, the other three on the left will be test dummies...

There is weekend ahead :-)

Fitting in the Door - Halftime

After some shortage in shop time, I got finally 2 thirds of the tools fitted into the door. More than half of the space is filled, I will add a rack for diverse tools, marking gauge, combination square, hammers, squares a frame for the spokeshaves etc. I'm quite dissatisfied with the saws' display but now they take up less room and reach into the gap under the japanese chisel frame of the main cabinet. The best solution I could figure out. I'd like to add my eggbeater drill, it is very handy. Maybe under the saw rack?

Tool Cabinet Again

There is a little work ahead before I can start with the sofa table. I have all these wonderful tools cluttering my work space and hiding where they shouldn't. So I decided to change the interior of the tool cabinet door. I threw out the saws and will install a chisel board the next days. Let's see if all the tools go into that tight space saws included.

Yes, the left part of the tool cabinet. There are many tools, mh...

Planing Rabbets is Fast.

A friend has to be convinced. It is fast to plane a rabbet, sometimes it is even easier than corded routing. Look at the video and you will see. I used a new Ulmia with a wider fence. The rabbet is 7,5 mm wide by 5mm deep. The board is 70 cm long. It took a minute to establish the rabbet. Sure it will be less fatiguing to work on 20 rabbets with a router...

The result is fine, the rabbet is square and consistent through the length.

Mirror - last one

The mirror hanging on the wall, I wonder if the upper knobs aren't too big. Mh... Nonetheless. The upper rail has a knot midway I wanted to pick up in the lower peg board. Next project is ahead, maybe it'll be a sofa table in colonial style. I'm not sure yet. Let's see...