What did you *make* today with your axe?

Ernest DuBois said:
Well thanks very much Brian very kind that you say it. It's one of the planes I've made and used after the fashion of the cabinetmaker James Krenov. Early on I discovered the pleasure of making and using planes and have stuck with it ever since making them using the suitable iron/chip breaker combination provided by Ron Hock out of Fort Bragg, CA. I like the Stanleys and Records and Lie-Nelsons and the rest and Japanese too but always get the most pleasurable work out of these Krenov style self-made planes.
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I was thinking Krenov because of the hardwood dowel holding the wedge in. Is it a solid body or is it laminated?
 
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Bob
 
There are many descriptions and instructions out there on making these planes in particular, magazines, even entire books devoted to laying out every detail but none succeed in being so clear as the original version reposted up there by Bob. Let's pay particular attention to the tenoned cross pin and call it that rather than a dowel. The only difference in the one I made is the addition of a separate sole. If it makes a better plane I don't know just adds a bit of interest. I cut the mouth opening first a bit under-sized and index it to the plane with actual dowels to secure the placement during the glue-up.
 
Very cool. I really like the cabinets, and your way if making them. When I was a teenager i worked as an underling in a custom cabinetry shop, but one that used modern machinery and tools. Hopefully one day I'll be able to take a crack at it with some pre industrial methods.

I'm glad the plane making came up. I want to make a travisher or two. Of course the iron will be the hard part. But in this day where a world class heat treat is only a trip to Peters away it should be eminently manageable. Is there a reference for crafting such a tool in such an esteemed fashion as the Krenov?
 
A travisher, could be a challenge with all the curves and angles. I'm sure there are tricks to get it all worked out but I'm not familiar. I use one though it's not from my own hand. When set up and sharpened well it's a fun tool to use.
 
A travisher is a different animal entirely. Making a krenov plane is not “easy” to make by any means, but in saying that it starts out as square stock and as long as you have you angles right and you make straight cuts it is fairly straight forward. A travisher is much like a spokeshave but higher handles and a rounded bottom. I would make the iron first (or order one because of the difficulty). Then carve the wooden body and shape the bottom to match the iron. I have made a few wooden spokeshaves and they work great. As long as you take your time I am sure you can do it!!

Also a Scorp would be a good option. Make one of those first to practice then make the travisher. Just my two cents lol.
 
Ernest DuBois said:
This is a clue also for getting things lined up and laid out for your travisher work as well. Are you thinking of going into chair making?
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Just to have a shave for larger concave surfaces, and my own edification. I'm something like a compulsive autodidact, which seems to be a trait that many of this little fellowship here share in common. A trait I value highly! I like problem solvers, I like people who are naturally inquisitive, I like people who place tremendous value in learning. So this little message board has become my favorite place on the internet.
 
Today in July 2019, the day after the hottest day in history in the Dutch nation I was standing out in the sun-scorched field ,which not 80 years ago was the bottom of the inland Southern sea 'till they pumped it dry and planted onions there and begonias at the same time laying bare hundreds of ship wrecks and finding many axes in them, squaring up timbers, one ash, (small beam) one Larch (3 meters). Bandhacke, Breitbeil, Sappie and a couple of dogs my chosen implements.
 
Ernest DuBois said:
Today in July 2019, the day after the hottest day in history in the Dutch nation I was standing out in the sun-scorched field ,which not 80 years ago was the bottom of the inland Southern sea 'till they pumped it dry and planted onions there and begonias at the same time laying bare hundreds of ship wrecks and finding many axes in them, squaring up timbers, one ash, (small beam) one Larch (3 meters). Bandhacke, Breitbeil, Sappie and a couple of dogs my chosen implements.
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I would love to see pictures of these ship wrecks. And you yourself found axes in them? Or was this before onions were planted? Seems like a waste of a waterway.... I despise onions lol never liked them even as a kid.
 
Brian Rust said:
I would love to see pictures of these ship wrecks.
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Man,i'm right there with Brian on this...:)...The axes in particular...Many Northern/Western European museum databases are most handily digitized and searchable...but it's often handy to get a link to a specific collection...

While on the topic,Ernest,have you ever attempted to gain access to any of the local to you museum's collections?..As Joe-public,or an expert,practitioner,whatever they require to show you what they have in stash,perhaps let you handle some,to examine the construction details?

(i happened to've done the very thing at the local university museum,just happened to be there on an unrelated bizness...But it turned out that they were happy to take me right into the stacks,and absolutely accommodated my every whim...(said that it was actually their job and they wished more people would take advantage of this opportunity...).
 
Down there in the "polder" as they say it, or new ground.
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I'm a bit skeptical, while the material is no doubt authentic, I think someone has had a hand in setting it up like that, it's probably a set-up.
Finally I got back to some joinery-with-the-axe work along with the squaring-up action.
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just a bit of showing-off really.
 
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Wow that is interesting. I would say authentic and people may hav added to it. “Kids making a fort” ? That one piece of timber has the bark on it still. A ship wouldn’t have that on there I would assume. Either way super cool!!!
 
Looks can be deceptive. I'll tell you the extent to which the whole scene is a set-up. Not only the ship but the depression filled with water, the mounds in the back ground, all man-made even the forest there planted 70 years ago according to a grand plan, it's simply the way it is in the Netherlands, a most disorienting lack of natural environment. Last time flying in the place struck me as a scene of a Lego constructed 3-d model or a detailed model train set. The orderliness is incredible it's incredible.
 
Board and battening work is often where an axe comes in handy Ernest DuBois. Why? I could go on and on and on but here are some examples. A board is maybe a little too bowed
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We can ease it with our axe
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Or cut out around door openings because battening would not work on a straight-run there
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Trimming and "easing" exposed edges will help.
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hewed boards hewed beams, ha, ha, ha.
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