spokeshave handles

1/19/05, 8:37 PM #1

Todd M.
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spokeshave handles

Todd M.

>I am making a LV low-angle wooden spokeshave and my intuition on the handle shape seems to be backward from the plans (and from other spokeshaves I've seen). I know that most often the grip is on the "body" and the handles aren't really used anyway. However, the handles don't seem designed for a pull stroke but for a push stroke. I suppose I could shape the handles to be symmetric for either push or pull, but these have been made this way for probably a couple of centuries. What am I missing? Thanks,

Todd

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1/19/05, 10:21 PM #2

Jack Guzman from Maine
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>That because even though you can use them either way spokeshaves are usually pushed.---Jack

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1/19/05, 10:26 PM #3

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>You're not missing anything. Handles I think are a personal asthetic and ergonomic choice. I've built the traditional pattern which works fine, but next time I will be experimenting. Traditional is not necessarily better (ref the Veritas products). I put a link below for FWW 153 gallery that shows some neat configurations done by Russ Filbeck. Eric

http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/pages/fw_readshow_153.asp

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1/19/05, 10:27 PM #4

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Unless they're pulled ;-)

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1/19/05, 10:37 PM #5

Paul M. in San Diego
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>I have a shave just like the one at the bottom of the picture. Funny that. The instructor in the one-day class that I built is was Russ, so it makes sense that it would look like that one. ;-)

It really does work great, and feels great in the hands having the handles low and front.

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1/20/05, 12:36 AM #6

Todd Hughes
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>Well i know when i used a spoke shave alot i sure used the handles to help hold them. I actually had a small one that the handles had been trimmed off, very neat but not very easy to use.Always figured was done so to be used in tight spaces.I have used shaves in the push mode but 90% of the time I pulled them.Try skewing a shave as you push it...I don't know I just found it more awkward to push them....Todd

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1/20/05, 12:43 AM #7

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Butterfly Chisels!

Todd Hughes

>Folding Butterfly Chisels ! now theres a clever answear looking for a problim. Whats next switch blade chisels? maybe a Numb Chuck marking gauge? ......As my Grandmother would say..."Lordy I can die now I've seen it all"....Todd

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1/20/05, 3:37 AM #8

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>I have one that I made using the small Hock blade. I started out by cutting in the blade and never got around to shaping the handles at all. What I effectively have is a square chunk of wood with a blade in the middle. I actually use that one more than many of the others I have.

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1/20/05, 12:36 PM #9

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Nunchuka as marking gauge

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>Nunchuka would amke a fabulous marking gauge...if you know how to use them and the person to be marked was stupid enough to be within range.

Steve Kubien

runnin' and duckin' from Todd and his nunchuka

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1/20/05, 3:05 PM #10

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>I am truely disappointed in you Todd.Even I can see that the sword would make a far better marking tool.Save the "nun-chucks" for plane adjustment and and joint fitment.

I`m sure that those butterfly chisels are spring loaded as a safety feature so that when you mess up and the edge flys out of the wood and toward your other hand all you need do is release your grip and the handle flys around in a microsecond to encase the razor sharp edge and you get a bruised finger instead of a trip to the ER to have your finger sewed back on.Brilliant,just brilliant(unless you`re a starving ortho surgeon).

I have to wonder what has happened to Todd`s fashion sense and why he has forgotten how to accesorize.I can see numerous possibilities to combine these new tools with his existing samurai regalia.

I`ll bet if Jon Belushi were still with us he`d know what to do.

Mainely,Bob

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