I was so glad that the kitchen boards are finished already that I forgot to write a planned article about assembling the boards with handles. Thus I write it now.
First cutting boards are finished and today I took some pictures before giving them into our kitchens for testing. We shall see how they fare, however I have no reason to expect trouble. But there are two possible sources of problems nevertheless – hidden flaws in the wood, cracks that did not notice, and the glue that I used.
There are several possibilities for making a handle on a kitchen board. One is to cut/shape it directly into the body but that is not suitable for a board glued from blocks, as the handle would be fragile and prone to breaking. The second possibility is to make a simple metal handle from stainless steel or brass. The third possibility...
I bought a palette of firewood a few years ago, offcuts of hard tropical wood from furniture making, according to the description it was supposed to be a mix of black locust and jatoba. I was expecting mostly black locust and I hoped there might be a few nice pieces of jatoba fit for making knife handles in there too....
Forced break from working on knives was significantly longer than I wanted it to be but this week I finally could advance a bit with making of the cutting boards. I finally solved the problem of roughly flattening the prefabricates. The solution is not particularly elegant but it works. And it is my second attempt – the first one, using...
Once the drum sander was finished, I gave it a coat of blue paint. Not so much for aesthetics but mainly for visibility and to protect some particle board surfaces against moisture.
When truing the drum cylinder I was collecting the dust simply by means of a handheld vacuum tube. That is not practical, of course, so I have made a simple cover to which I can attach the vacuum.
Last week I did not write an article because I was very busy and it was only late in the evening on Sunday that I realized it is not Saturday anymore. I guess I am getting old.
Since the beginning, I intended to use my current belt sander as a power source for the drum sander. On a picture in one of my previous articles on it can be seen how I used an old abrasive belt for this when I was making the drum cylinder concentric.
To regulate the working height of the drum sander I decided to go for the simplest solution – tilting table.
