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Re: Joinery with an axe [Re: toivo] #21631 10/30/09 11:24 PM
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The scoring axe came from "the japan woodworker" in california, and was not too expensive.
http://www.japanwoodworker.com/page.asp?content_id=10045

scoring axe

We got those braces joined and fitted today...

Re: Joinery with an axe [Re: Mark Davidson] #21632 10/31/09 02:07 AM
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Nice work Mark. Are they part of a Hammer Beam?


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Re: Joinery with an axe [Re: Thane O'Dell] #21633 10/31/09 04:11 PM
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These are part of the new door for my new shop


Re: Joinery with an axe [Re: Will Truax] #21637 11/01/09 01:11 AM
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Originally Posted By: Will Truax

Jim – I took note of your suggestion that Jack wishes to be informed of errors or omissions for a followup volume of HATJ – Central WI is also plumb full of edged halved scarfs with bladed & bridled abutments. There is the suggestion in HATJ that they are not commonly found in historical frames. How do we update him – hardcopy photographs and snailmail ?


Will, I sent you a PM regarding this topic.


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Re: Joinery with an axe [Re: Mark Davidson] #21668 11/03/09 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted By: Mark Davidson
Here are some pics of a brace making session we had today, using adze, axe and chainsaw to shape 4 braces at once. These braces all came out of the same 10 ft log.
Thanks to Raff for some great energy and inspiration.



Thank YOU for the gig, working with that green hemlock was SUCH a treat cool can hardly wait to start shaping our massive cruck blades...

who would've thought that axes and adzes can be so......accurate and efficient whistle grin




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Re: Joinery with an axe [Re: frwinks] #21688 11/05/09 01:24 PM
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oooh. that cut nice.

that's a significant point for axe/adze work- wood selection. i spent yesterday trying to emulate mr. davidson's brace curve work on dry, knotty spruce that had been chain-saw hewn a year ago, and it was an exercise for sure. i was reminded of the reason i used a chainsaw to hew it in the first place.

green clear wood is best suited to edge tools. not that other kinds won't cut, but for the sheer pleasantness of chopping at a newly fallen tree, it's helpful to make that distinction between what may be necessary and what is just plain good.

Re: Joinery with an axe [Re: toivo] #21705 11/06/09 09:43 AM
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Hi, Some work done with the help of an adze but that I do not think of as joinery.

Greetings

Don Wagstaff

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Re: Joinery with an axe [Re: Will Truax] #21732 11/10/09 11:50 PM
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Along the lines of joinery with an axe, does anyone have any information about how mortising axes were used? It seems to me that they were used more on fence posts and small troughs rather than timber framing.

Thanks;
Jim


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Re: Joinery with an axe [Re: Housewright] #21744 11/12/09 02:13 PM
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Hi,
there is a web site link referenced a time or two on this web site which would indicate that mortising axes were used primarily in timber framing. Though the tool here- a bisaiguë - is used without an extended wooden handle. This is simply the French version of a kreuzaxt. [email:http://www.en.charpentiers.culture.fr/tools/paulduboisstoolbox/thesecretsofatoolbox]http://www.en.charpentiers.culture.fr/tools/paulduboisstoolbox/thesecretsofatoolbox[/email]
Greetings

Don Wagstaff

Re: Joinery with an axe [Re: Cecile en Don Wa] #21751 11/12/09 09:50 PM
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Maybe fence posts would be good practice though.

Don Wagstaff

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