{"id":4162,"date":"2021-10-24T23:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:06:04","slug":"workshop-polishing-my-knob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4162","title":{"rendered":"HOME\/DiY: Workshop – Polishing my Knob"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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At close of play\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today I made a knob for the Handyman plane I\u2019ve been working on, to go with the handle I recently made. Both are made from quite soft construction pine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had to set up the bandsaw to cut a blank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cutting blanks from a big block of pine, I quickly realised my bandsaw was all out of whack. So I had to take a break to sort that out. Took a while! I needed to adjust pretty much everything<\/em>! I even had to drill new holes in the fence clamp to help get the fence properly aligned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I drove a screw into the blank, cut off the head\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The angle-grinder took the head off a long thin screw, so I could put it in the chuck of a drill. This then meant I could \u2018turn\u2019 the block, kind of primitive lathe-style, into a large tubular rod. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 and used this hand drill as a mini lathe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After this initial rounding stage, I took a lead out of Paul Seller\u2019s book, and used a hand saw, followed by chisels\/rasps, to narrow the circumference of the lower basal part of the blank. After that it was just a case of rasping, filing and so on, until I attained the desired curves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fully shaped, I used the vice to extract the screw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once I\u2019d got a shape I was pleased with, I put the screw\/shank in the vice and rotated the shaped knob off. Then the drill-press did the holes for the threaded-rod and fixing doodad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these pics my rather slapdash work looks ok. And I\u2019ve learned lots. But one thing I\u2019ve learned is I need to remake these in harder wood, and be more accurate and neat in doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much varnishing and sanding\u2026 as ever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And done, for now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The day after making the front knob, I put this plane back together. Turns out it\u2019s the scrub plane. I felt the handles I\u2019d made weren\u2019t seating quite right, so I made a pair of cork \u2018gaskets\u2019, using the footprint of each piece. I also had to add a bit of dowel back into the top hole of the \u2018knob\u2019. But all told, with the final bit of fettling, I\u2019m actually quite pleased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The new look, in front of an unmodified plastic one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I made a knob for the Handyman plane I\u2019ve been working on, to go with the handle I recently made. Both are made from quite soft construction pine. Cutting blanks from a big block of pine, I quickly realised my bandsaw was all out of whack. So I had to take a break to … <\/p>\n

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