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Thank you @scottchensoda, I am glad to hear that you are happy with it.
May I ask where did you purchase your blades? I have been reading about a handful of websites where quality blades can be purchased, both in the UK and in Italy, where I live, and I wanted to hear from you your own experience, if you don’t mind 🙂

That’s what you want when you go through life… You want people to say: “he cared”

— Paul Sellers

Very well executed!
I built something similar to yours (not as beautifully executed) with the piece where the saws are inserted into which is not glued. This way I can modify the existing piece or insert a new one if I decided to change the way I spaced the saws

As a follow up, I recently received a box of hardwood shorts from the UK, which I purchased on eBay to practice with hardwood. Now I understand why some people mentioned that pine is harder to work with because of the very noticeable difference between the soft and hard rings. I have also improved my sharpening by adding a strop made of leather…[Read more]

@mattmcgrane – now that’s an awesome reference – while I haven’t found the answer I was looking for, that guy really knows his saws!

@emsworth can you show a picture of the shooting board?

@jotato: very kind of you – unfortunately I live in Italy, a bit far away 🙂 in fact finding wood is my hardest task… even just a couple of boards of bad looking pine here can cost around 20 euros 🙁 I used to live near NY for about ten years and remember now with envy the racks full of wood at the Home Depot, hehehehe…
For now I will…[Read more]

@mattmcgrane: “With practice will come more confidence. Your chisels will be sharper and your hammer blows more solid. Eventually you’ll get the dovetail cut out with fewer blows.” I think that’s the key – being my first box I feel like when I was learning to drive, and I had to think where to but my hands, how to change gears, when to a…[Read more]

@frankj, this is very interesting. The pin recesses had about 10-15 annual rings within 14mm, and it took me about 10-12 rounds of hammering + chiseling the waste before reaching breaking point (almost always with a fracture in the middle). Intuitively, I was using the Stanley knife to perfect the wall each time, breaking off the compressed fibres…[Read more]

@frankj, this is very interesting. The pin recesses had about 10-15 annual rings within 14mm, and it took me about 10-12 rounds of hammering + chiseling the waste before reaching breaking point (almost always with a fracture in the middle). Intuitively I was using the Stanley knife to perfect the wall each time, breaking of the compressed fibres…[Read more]

I am using the EZE-Lap C/F/SF (I believe they are 250/600/1200 grit) and I believe I am removing the burr (at least I feel the burr after sharpening and I am seeing it go away at the end once I turn the chisel on its “back” and pass it once or twice on the 1200.
The detail picture shows that, like you mentioned, the middle part teared (it happened…[Read more]