Make Your Own Woodworking Tools; Metalwork Techniques to Create, Customize, and Sharpen in the Home Workshop

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781565233065
• ISBN10: 1565233069
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-05-01
• Publisher: Fox Chapel Pub Co Inc

Summary

Praising the simplicity and economy of customized handles and blades made from recycled materials, this manual details the construction and assembly of handmade tools that can be fitted to individual hands and are designed to keep a razor-sharp edge. An extensive section on salvage steel provides advice about choosing metal, and an in-depth analysis of heat treatment explains how to get a hard cutting-edge while keeping the back of the knife soft for greater strength. In addition, a section on making handles recommends techniques for shaping and carving wood to distribute pressure over a large area of the heel of the hand in order to relieve stress on the wrist and arm.

Author Biography

Mike Burton has been a professional woodworker for more than 40 years. He opened a woodworking shop in Ogden, Uthah in 1973 with his father and brother and later became the sole owner of this business, manufacturing a full line of furniture and custom wood products including guitar bodies and propellers for ultralight aircraft. After transferring the business to his sons, Mike put his energy into writing and is the author of three other books, Simple Marquetry (Sterling), Veneering a Foundation Course (Sterling) and Architectural Carving Revised (Sterling).

Table of Contents

Introduction	vi
Steel and Other Raw Materials	2	(9)
What is steel?	2	(1)
Steel requirements	3	(2)
Salvaged steel	5	(4)
Manufactured steel	9	(2)
Equipment and Tools	11	(22)
A place to work	11	(1)
Cutting	12	(2)
Shaping	14	(5)
Polishing devices	19	(2)
Heat sources	21	(3)
Forge	24	(4)
Anvil	28	(1)
Vise	29	(2)
Swages	31	(2)
Safety	33	(5)
Eye protection	33	(2)
Protecting the lungs	35	(1)
Fire	35	(2)
Handling hot steel	37	(1)
Tools Without Blacksmithing	38	(8)
Tools for carvers	38	(7)
Tools for turners	45	(1)
Simple Blacksmithing Techniques	46	(14)
Tools from round stock	47	(1)
Upsetting	48	(6)
Forming rough bevels with a hammer	54	(1)
Swaging	55	(2)
Bent tools	57	(1)
Forming shoulders	58	(2)
Heat Treating	60	(12)
Measuring the temperature of steel	60	(2)
What is heat treating?	62	(8)
How hard should a tool be?	70	(2)
Dressing and Sharpening Shop-Made Tools	72	(8)
Grinding and filing	72	(3)
Sharpening	75	(2)
Making the tool pretty	77	(1)
Identifying tools	78	(2)
Handles and Mallets	80	(11)
Types of handles	80	(2)
Woods for handles	82	(1)
Making handles	82	(1)
Ferrules	83	(1)
My handle	84	(2)
Installing handles	86	(1)
Mallets and hammers	87	(4)
Special Purpose Tools	91	(9)
Tool stands	91	(2)
A sharpening station	93	(2)
Pneumatic tools	95	(2)
Router ideas	97	(1)
Scrapers	98	(1)
Planes	99	(1)
Projects	100	(21)
Project One -- Carving Tools Made from Concrete Nails	100	(5)
Project Two -- Tools from Small Drill Rod	105	(6)
Project Three -- Tools from Recycled Saw Blade	111	(4)
Project Four -- Short-Sweep Turning Gouges	115	(2)
Project Five -- More Turning Gouges	117	(4)
Index	121