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Well, you know what since Clay was here, he has a much stronger grasp of some hand tool techniques and things and I figure that something that. I tend to gloss over a little bit. I really get a chance to go over some details. None of these is planned ahead of time. We are just going to kind of grab a few tools off the wall and hopefully review some real basic things dealing with hand tools, you know, whether it is even chisel technique, or sawing techniques block planes. Very basic stuff, we are just going to do it work while he’s here. He is in here for a couple hours but we are just going to have some fun with it and see what we can do. I probably would wind up manning the camera because Nicole is busy and we will just have some fun so
Cleo: Yes
Male: All right, cool. So, Cleo is going to show us. I think we going to start with mortising for a hinge. Just chopping out a little hinge spot there for you. It is pretty simple but I think this is one of those thing that if you don’t review these simple things, you can kind of pass it up. I think it is easier than it is you know so it’s nice to get these foundation things under your belt
Cleo: Yes, I think sometimes we get to cover the big techniques, you know, you got to have milk before you can eat the meat
Male: Amen to that. That is nice. I am going to have use that
Male Okay going to man the camera. I am going to let Cleo do his thing.
Cleo I know you have been doing this by measure. We will just draw a little, let see mortis.
Male: Just a hypothetical mortis.
Cleo I guess normally, I use a nice marking gauge and a marking knife all this good stuff
Male: I have it here somewhere but we probably do not want to search everything down but if you want normally you would use some sort of marking knife to direction.
Cleo: Yes, initially I do this just to get that nice shoulder, beginning shoulder line on each of the mortis for the hinge.
Male: Okay.
Cleo: So traditionally, you write that down and then you also do the depth of the hinge on the side. So you have a shoulder to sit the chisel in. So, I always go in – with the marking knife, you get that nice lines so I will stay off that line a little bit to start . And you always put the bevel to the waist side. So, and you just want to try to keep your chisel straight and just give it a nice a little tap and look around really quick,. Now, you use chisel appropriate for the job so, you know, if you have nice long stretch you got to go, use the biggest chisel you have.
Male: There is a wider one there if you feel like using it, the one on the way on the right.
Cleo: The big one
Male: The big daddy
Cleo You just do that so you have a nice straight line the whole time. You do not even need to actually pound it. And then, right, this is how I cut dove tails to. I come in and I would pair off that shoulder line. Right to that line you just created so it just kind of gives you a reference mark the whole way around.
Male: Just that little tiny tapping you did went deep enough that now you can just par away
Cleo: You can par away a little bit of the material.
Male: Okay
Cleo: Just so you can see, I do not know if you can get in there but you can see there is a nice little shoulder line there now around where that marking was and you can go back and clean up, get a little bit closer to that line. Ultimately, you would not touch that line until like your very end and you will know if you need to chop back down some more because the chips would not come off as nice as they come down here like right know and it can fall just right off
Male: So, your initial scoring cut – you are pretty well inside your line to that point.
Cleo: Yes, at this point, I am really inside the line. You know the beautiful thing is that you spend all that time flattening your chisel backs. This is why, so you can keep your chisel nice and flat as you are paring this away
Male: Just a real basic review I think a lot of us have a saw, you know, that does not necessarily mean that we know how to use it so anything you could teach us the stuff you have learned, proper holding technique.
Cleo: This is my favorite saw, I had this one too and I like this saw, I like the pistol grip saws personally and just made my hand a little bigger so that I can not get them into the other saws. I always check the set of my saws tooth. I usually mark a few lines on a board. So let us check this board out.
Male: Just if you could describe for anyone might know what set is.
Male The set is the teeth of the saw. When they file this saw, the set is the curve. Basically the distance to the curve of the saw sometimes you get a brand new saw; you track it, just like band saw. You draw some lines; you draw some lines on a board. Probably work better on the end grain actually with the dove tail saw.
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