Comments on: 8 Tools that I wish were made https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2012/09/08/8-tools-that-i-wish-were-made/ inside the woodshop Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2012/09/08/8-tools-that-i-wish-were-made/#comment-112851 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:09:47 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-112851 FC,

Ha, yea! I guess a world with unlimited tools would make for less imaginative woodworkers.

Rob

]]> By: Finish Carpentry https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2012/09/08/8-tools-that-i-wish-were-made/#comment-112846 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:40:58 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-112846 Hmm… the magic lantern could really help, couldn’t it… :)))) Think about it this way – if all the tools we wished for existed, our tasks wouldn’t be as interesting and challenging. And I’m always up for a challenge, aren’t you? :)

]]> By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2012/09/08/8-tools-that-i-wish-were-made/#comment-112507 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:05:46 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-112507 Jeff,

Thanks for the comment.

The most useful role of the Ulmia vise, as I see it, is to have it held in the tail vise of the workbench with only its jaws above the level of the bench top. In that way, it can hold small, narrow, and fairly thin pieces of wood.

I’ll soon have a post on this describing two alternatives to the Ulmia.

Thanks for reading.

Rob

]]> By: Jeff https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2012/09/08/8-tools-that-i-wish-were-made/#comment-112506 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:46:27 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-112506 I have always liked the Ulmia vise as well and remember that auction (too high for my budget). I think that it would be better for a small vise like that to be mounted on a T-shaped support so that it would clamp in a vise rather than requiring a clamp to clamp it to the top of a bench.

]]> By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2012/09/08/8-tools-that-i-wish-were-made/#comment-112500 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:55:12 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-112500 Adam,

As far as I can tell from the photo, that countersink does not have the all-important feature of radially asymmetric flutes. That feature eliminates chatter. See the photo in my previous post:
http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2012/07/31/countersinks-poor-to-excellent/

Rob

]]> By: adam https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2012/09/08/8-tools-that-i-wish-were-made/#comment-112499 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:17:50 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-112499 lee valley/veritas still does make a countersink very similar to the one you list in item 4. however it now comes with a handle on it already.
http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=54874&cat=1,180,42337&ap=1

]]> By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2012/09/08/8-tools-that-i-wish-were-made/#comment-112496 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:39:12 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-112496 Tim,

True, yea, sometimes. But I use a coping or fret saw to remove dovetail waste with the wood held vertically in the vise with the saw blade moving horizontally.

Rob

]]> By: Tim https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2012/09/08/8-tools-that-i-wish-were-made/#comment-112490 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:02:45 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-112490 Coping saw, like a Japanese saw moves vertically. If you use it that way, the handle fits naturally with the sawing motion.

]]>