Bert2368
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I am going to re-handle a couple of blades with trashed handles from the junk drawer, then if successful, try a couple of Japanese blades which are new(ish) but came with the very generic white wood handles & flimsy plastic ferules.
I'm using (free/cheap) materials already on hand. Blades and findings out of the junk drawer, old wood bits left over from former jobs or old projects (hey, it's good and dry by now).
First step: Taking an old convection oven/toaster with non functional upper (broiler) element and turning it into a WOOD COOKER.
I am roasting blanks made of some very well dried hard maple, salvaged while remodeling in the 1990s from a kitchen built around 1927.
Cooking 1.375" square maple blanks at 360 F. for 4 hours. A SWAG as per my interpretation of this thread at "lumberjocks":
https://www.lumberjocks.com/topics/52092
Film at 11:00.
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OK Michi, FREE ICECREAM!!!
Making 1 3/8" X 1 1/2" blanks out of a 12" piece of nominal 2X maple. The darkened piece of wood on other side of fence from blade is the rest of the salvaged board, about 44" more is left.
I cleaned up some saw scorch marks on blanks, wanted to see what color changes may occur. It's HARD, dry old wood. I have NO idea why my hands drew registry marks on the board ends before ripping, they didn't consult with my brain on this...
Blanks go into a countertop convection oven, temporarily set up outdoors. It's snowing here, in case you couldn't't tell.
Blanks weighed variously, 390, 391 and 396 grams before cooking. Weights were penciled on ends...
I'm using (free/cheap) materials already on hand. Blades and findings out of the junk drawer, old wood bits left over from former jobs or old projects (hey, it's good and dry by now).
First step: Taking an old convection oven/toaster with non functional upper (broiler) element and turning it into a WOOD COOKER.
I am roasting blanks made of some very well dried hard maple, salvaged while remodeling in the 1990s from a kitchen built around 1927.
Cooking 1.375" square maple blanks at 360 F. for 4 hours. A SWAG as per my interpretation of this thread at "lumberjocks":
https://www.lumberjocks.com/topics/52092
Film at 11:00.
------
OK Michi, FREE ICECREAM!!!
Making 1 3/8" X 1 1/2" blanks out of a 12" piece of nominal 2X maple. The darkened piece of wood on other side of fence from blade is the rest of the salvaged board, about 44" more is left.
I cleaned up some saw scorch marks on blanks, wanted to see what color changes may occur. It's HARD, dry old wood. I have NO idea why my hands drew registry marks on the board ends before ripping, they didn't consult with my brain on this...
Blanks go into a countertop convection oven, temporarily set up outdoors. It's snowing here, in case you couldn't't tell.
Blanks weighed variously, 390, 391 and 396 grams before cooking. Weights were penciled on ends...
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