Hand Tools
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Visual vs. measurementResponse To:
Re: David Pye's thoughts - Just not true though () Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
But Tom, hand scraped work is fascinating visually, because the marks left behind are so irregular/not patterned - as contrasted, for instance, with well-done, utterly symmetrical engine-turned panels.
And, if I'm fitting a door, I'll take a handplane over any machine/electrically powered tool I can think of; it lets me take a few thousandths off the top right corner of the door without the intense jigging that would be needed to accomplish that with a machine.
I think Pye was speaking not of the measurement issue but of how the work appeared.
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- What makes the "handtool" look?
- What is the objective
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- Edit: incomplete thought.
- Chamfers on rails and styles
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- Chamfers on rails and styles
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- Re: Tempted
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- Easy... the eye of the beholder
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- Thanks gentleman
- What doesn't result in a hand tool look *PIC*
- David Pye's thoughts
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- What is the objective