#chisel

[undead-knick-knack]

Chetney chisels Ashton's hair you say 👀

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[cryptid-stimming]

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic) Stimboard (for Anon)

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[Image ID: a still image of Shadow the Hedgehog surrounded by 8 gifs. Line one has a gif of a spherical plasma lamp with electrical currents moving inside, a gif of a thick gold bangle being crafted with a blowtorch flame, and a gif of a capsule-shaped plasma lamp with the currents moving inside. Line two has a close-up gif of hair being brushed with a comb, the still image of Shadow, and another close-up of hair being brushed with a comb. Line three has a gif of someone holding a thick gold bangle between a finger and thumb, a gif panning over different shaped plasma lamps, and a gif of a gold bangle being smoothed with a metal chisel tool.]

[talos-stims]

MANGER ON MCNICHOLS

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[giffypudding]

Don't mind me

[nitromians]

发的出来吗 #Nitrome by beeeeesive

[ruth-t]

Fall in love with your life, or take out the chisel and sculpt it till it seduces you.

#bookstagram #writersofinstagram #writersgram #substack #medium #bookgram #poetry #quotes #booknerd #booklovers #healing #growth #growthmindset #growthquotes #betteryourself

[buromarks]

-https://jotpress.co/McSwain

[2deadkat]

The scar-tracing scene from @which-star ‘s chisel it out of me , juicy.

(MILD TITTY WARNING)

[thewhoreandbeastofbabylon]

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[geocyclist]

Corner posts for the upper frame of the compost sifter cut on the table saw, then smoothed with a chisel.

Upper frame glued together with more of the milled 1x4s. 1/2” conduit used as slides. Sifter box mocked up to test for space to shake it.

Almost done!

[gnarpsoda]

drew some goobers from nitrome games i played as a kid

[ecrasonslinfame]

This is how we make things at Avenir Adieu

Simple tools and complex craftmanship to engrave words in stone and question the way we want to be remembered.

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[giantcypress]

Into the gap

One of the things that resulted from the COVID pandemic was that I wound up teaching the OCIA course for our church (long story). The students got their sacraments at the Easter Vigil Mass, and I decided to make crucifixes for them as a gift. This should be a pretty straightforward project — mill out pieces of wood for the upright and crosspiece portions of the cross, cut a lap joint, glue, finish, and attach the corpus and INRI plaque.

But it is a truism in woodworking that the smaller projects are the hardest to do, because you see every detail. And for this crucifix, there was a detail that bugged me.

On the lower part of the bridle joint to the left, there's a bit of a gap. That's where I went a little off my line. It happens. Structurally, this joint would be fine, but visually this stuck out to me like a sore thumb. The good thing is that this is pretty easy to mitigate.

The way I fix small gaps in joinery like this is to use plane shavings to fill in the void. The first thing is to figure out the best orientation for that shaving. You want the shaving to go with the grain of one of the two parts of the joint. In this case, it would be along the grain of the crosspiece.

Then make some shavings from another piece of wood that's the same species as the piece. (It does occur to me that if you use a contrasting piece of wood for this, you've moved from fixing a gap in a joint to making inlay.)

Japanese planes are well known for their ability to make gossamer-thin shavings less than 0.001" thick. That's not what we want here.

I test fit the shaving until I find the section that fits well, and then trim down the shaving with a pair of scissors.

Then glue up and clamp the joint. I'm a big fan of liquid hide glue overall, but it's especially good in this situation because it makes the shavings slippery enough so that everything fits together. Don't worry that the joint will look like one of Phyllis Diller's outfits. We'll fix that later.

After the glue dries, the joint will look like a mess. Again, don't worry.

Now I use a chisel to get rid of most of the shavings hanging off the joint as well as the dried glue squeeze out, and a plane to bring everything flush. The joint looks much better now.

As it turned out, I was also making a small divider for a container that sits in one of our kitchen drawers, and left a little gap in that joint as well. I used the same technique to fix that, even though it will sit in a drawer, and will never see the light of day, because that's what woodworking has done to me.

For the crucifix, I used shellac and wax for the finish, and attached the corpus and INRI plaque. It turned out pretty nice.

And that's when I noticed that Jesus's head would have covered up that gap anyway. I guess Jesus really does save.

[handcraftedloghomes]

How we use some of our traditional handcrafting tools at the Cascade Handcrafted log yard. 🪵The Chisel on the left is used as a finishing tool for mortise and tenon, planing of door and window sills and notches.🪵The Gouge in the middle is used for carving, shaping, hollowing out and curved cuts. 🪵The Flaren on the right is used effectively on either side for planing, dressing and as a clean-up tool, rolling off the flared edge.

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[weirdponytail]

I love my new gouge chisel. It came out of the box arm shave sharp, and it’s only attacked me twice!