Thread: What are you working on?

Yup, start them learning a work ethic early.
You can do it by hand.
Start in the middle and then work up and then work down.
It takes a long time but it is also fairly therapeutic.

Amen, very zen like.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Yup, start them learning a work ethic early.
You can do it by hand.
Start in the middle and then work up and then work down.
It takes a long time but it is also fairly therapeutic.

So, what size dowel and the strokes will be blade length? Then blade width to blend?

Originally Posted by RezDog

Yup, start them learning a work ethic early.
You can do it by hand.
Start in the middle and then work up and then work down.
It takes a long time but it is also fairly therapeutic.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Amen, very zen like.

Oh yeah! So very therapeutic all right.

Some of this, before and after sanding....A day or two to recover!

Yes work ethic must be taught, my son does chores around the house and I explain to him, we work to earn what we need and want. No free rides.

Some of doing chores is learning to keep a proper house, some of it is simply doing your part to be decent person to cohabitate with.

As for what size dowel. I have several. Mostly it is about what is comfortable to hold. I have two that I like, one is about an inch in diameter and is a hard rubber cylinder that I have no idea where it came from. The other is smaller and started life as a wine cork. Two big and they roll side to side fairly easy, I try to keep as much flat as I can. I do start length wise. I find the long strokes lengthwise make sense for keeping everything flat. Once the metal is removed then it is time to change up the direction and start reducing scratch patterns.

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

Im with you on a belt grinder I just don't have one as of yet. Sending it out would be nice but that costs money and momma would kill me for sending a blade out to be reground right now. I'm thinking I will get to hand sanding. I have all winter to sit and sand. When our baby gets here I'll put her to work asap. She needs to start building caluses and learn work ethic, I won't have no bum baby

Ahh I can see the children helping dad in the shop now.



Seriously I firmly believe in children helping with chores around the house. I'm the oldest of four and ONE of my jobs was pre-flushing the poopie diapers. When my second wife and I were expecting our first child my mother said; "I'll sew them and show you how to fold them" I said; Mom, I know how to fold diapers that was one of my chores. Mom said that she never made me fold diapers. So I got one of what I call 'country dishtowels out (they are a thin material and square) and folded it into a diaper and handed it to mom. She said "I can't believe I made you do that". I guess time helps remove certain memories.

This is after 1.5 hours with 120 grit. The heel and toe area are lower than the middle like convex. Should I work that out or sand with It? Makes sense to sand with it to me. Also lost track of where my middle finger was at 1 point, felt a burning. I was cutting myself, duh.

Atta Boy, Eric!!

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

This is after 1.5 hours with 120 grit. The heel and toe area are lower than the middle like convex. Should I work that out or sand with It? Makes sense to sand with it to me. Also lost track of where my middle finger was at 1 point, felt a burning. I was cutting myself, duh.

Find a way to stay off the very edge and the top of the spine/honewear. You want to leave those high and sand the rest down...Tape?