Franks patching board

[Kurt]

Frank

That is a well constructed jig. I will give you a high 5 for the fine work and the engineering designing it.

But I don't think that I have the patience cutting one patch at a time.

Kurt

[Frank Savage]

One at a time Man, you know how to poke
Made this to be able to run a sixstack conveniently, comfortably and consistently. If you have very light "crocodile clip" to fix the stack on one end and very sharp cutter, you can run 15-stack with some care. You want it fixed a bit because the londer or wider ones are easy to observe, but those which hide in the stack a bit more are invisible-so preventing this is helpful. But sixstack can be run as pretty careless operation

[Tombstone 71]

I take full sheets and put a thin 1/8" line of Duco Cement glue on the top edge and stack as many as I can cut. It dry's in 5 min. and keep's them lined up nice. I cut with a 18" X 18" old paper cutter but if you don't keep your tic mark's lined up you have to trim one at a time to fix em. You can end up with a whole bunch out of whack this way.
I do a lot of different bullet's and 10 to 15 patch's per size so Frank's patch cutter will be a god send, and I think if you could go back in time you might find something like this on Frank Hyde's table in his loading room. Just look's cool as hell.

Tim

[Frank Savage]

So, have no news about more material yet, but have boards for 8-10 pcs on hand. Still thinking about parts placement to get the nicest parts visible. Not so easy and will have to cut every piece individualy-no cut strips and cut to lenght. May sound as dumb advertisement, but that is it. Most of them will be somehow darker and dark stripped brownish-red base boards, with reddish or gold-reddish sliders, stops etc.
Rulers will be 1/16" thick, 6/5" or 30 mm wide. If you want 1"/25 mm rulers, PM.
If you are used to operate the cutter by left hand, say it also. Will make lenght cutter board with slider on the left for convenient operation.
Standard strip cutter is to accept paper 10" wide, if you need more-PM.

[Frank Savage]

Some parts ready for slotting and fences to glupe to basic boards, but most of the spare wood just getting used, since some boards must be cut all over again from different pieces. Upon sawing, some more voids emerged and I don´t want let out any which is not from a sound, solid single piece of massive. Except that, those ripped parts are almost impossible to glue up. Seems like a lightning strike residues, albeit they are hair thin and not runnig all along the piece.
Estimated finish time now six weeks, somehow depending on the weather due to tung oil finish. Bear with me please.

[Kenny Wasserburger]

No hurry Frank, good stuff takes time an only a idiot hurries a craftsman.

KW

[Frank Savage]

Unfortunately, not much progress and time to work on until this coming saturday. Spent last two weeks abroad on schoolings for quite sudden co-op job which will cut me all time of the first april week and some more time until that in preps. Couldn´t say no to a friend in this case.
The wood is going to be a bit more glossy than mine, but not as much as it can be done-as to prevent any gouge showing like back from a brush.

[Frank Savage]

Spent part of the weekend on them, just stopped on sanding after quite a short while. Didn´t put on my respiratory mask, since I didn´t feel the need when I made mine-but I did not used 320 and 500 grit paper. Regreting it now, albeit it would be not much help. Pinching in cheeks and lips, "fresh and freezy" feeling on hands, washing them is like sticking them into bunch of fighting porcupines. Sack of cement in each lung, but obviously not from inhalation of the dust-not much of it flying when stricly hand-sanding. Ending for today.
Added another record on "already got poisoned by" list. Yew, black locust, juniperus (this was from strange soil conditions...) already there. Curious about this wood when in full strenght, not washed out by steaming for veneer slitting...

[Dave Roelle]

Looking forward to seeing the finished product Frank---------------you might post some pics as you proceed, i'm sure we would all enjoy seeing your process/progress.

Keep well and stay safe

Dave

[Frank Savage]

OK, have some photos from mfg. But it does not the justice and shows things that realy does not exist, as the waves in the wood reflects the light differently, making parts looking as unsanded or dyed. Here they are from former stages:

Lenght cutters prepared to assembly and trimmings:



Strip cutting boards in the same stage


Ultra blurry image which might give some idea what I dived into with some of the wood I have after sawing to dimensions-cracking upon releasing the forces from steaming, probably starting in some hair cracks from some damage to the tree



Tools of the trade-instead of mittrebox, I made myself this adjustable fence. Not much classy, dirt utilitarian and fast to make solution from alu profiles. Set up, clamp where needed, saw what you want. Works surprisingly well with the height of 2 2/5"



Wish I could show here some 100+ years old crosscut and rip cut saws with file sharpened teeth. Something like 25 or 32 TPI on crosscut and some fine 5,5 TPI with crown style tooth on the ripping one. But only Sandvik/Bahco hard points here. Wanted to buy the interchangeable blade system, but the wait time was 4+ weeks. People buy el cheapo mart stuff, nobody carries in stock blades per 40 bucks apiece.
But the finishing plane is one I found about 15 years back, with blade from "Warranted Sheffield cast steel". Maybe well over 100 years old. Made sharpening jig, brought it back to life when started on my (still unfinished and wanna be) LR muzzleloading gun. When I first time just tried the result of sharpening jig improvement, I stumbled into some very strange kind of berserk fierce I´ve never encountered in myself ever before and ended up with 2/3 finished stock in 40 minutes and 1 ft of shavings on the floor . Still the only plane I can reliably use on the hardest woods I have in vicinity.





Ended up making the boards just how they fit into the pieces of the wood, as to get rid of as little as possible. No two will be of the same dimensions, every each an original. Will have time to continue on saturday and some on sunday.