True dat.Besides, one can never have too many clamps.
I read somewhere that in the olden days the first job of an apprentice luthier was to make cam clamps. THEN you got to start making instruments,I just completed 3 days of marathon shop time, finishing the second of my two-clamp project from wood scraps found around my shop. The wood I used for #2 is shown in the first two pics. The larger clamp has 3 pieces of wood; the smaller, which was inspired by the SM mini cam clamps, has 12. My family says I can be obsessive when I'm into a project. I like to think of it as "highly focused". Besides, one can never have too many clamps. It would have been easier to hit the BIN button, but not nearly as much fun.
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A couple years ago I built a Roubo frame saw to resaw spalted Maple from some logs I had found. Even after rough slabbing a log with my chainsaw, truing the slabs with my planer, and cutting starter kerfs with my table saw, it took me 3 very hot July afternoons to finish resawing one 24" log with the big frame saw. That saw is still hanging in an honored spot in my shop. Resawing even spalted Maple by hand was a bear.When I was at joinery college, in the furniture department next door, where I spent an awful lot of my time, the first thing the students there were made to do was build a frame saw.
THEN they got to make some furniture.
A couple years ago I built a Roubo frame saw to resaw spalted Maple from some logs I had found. Even after rough slabbing a log with my chainsaw, truing the slabs with my planer, and cutting starter kerfs with my table saw, it took me 3 very hot July afternoons to finish resawing one 24" log with the big frame saw. That saw is still hanging in an honored spot in my shop. Resawing even spalted Maple by hand was a bear.
That maple is glorious! What did you think of the figured maple for working with?This is my new Tenor, flamed Big Leaf Maple and Torrified Spruce. I was visiting my bowl turning friend a couple of weeks ago, talking about wood and he mentioned his brother cuts a lot of Maple and finds lots of figure he doesn't really appreciate. I suggested we go visit him and came home with a lot of figured maple for the price of a lunch and some fuel . This is my first try at the new wood, and a little tweak to the bracing.
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