{"id":801,"date":"2010-07-06T21:44:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=801"},"modified":"2010-07-06T21:44:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T02:44:29","slug":"little-sweepers-in-the-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/little-sweepers-in-the-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Little sweepers in the shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/img_1349_edited-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-802  aligncenter\" title=\"img_1349_edited-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/img_1349_edited-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a little tip that you may find helpful. I use these <strong>little brushes<\/strong> constantly in the shop.<\/p>\n<p>The lower one in the picture, with the red collar, is labeled &#8220;<strong>oily<\/strong>.&#8221; I use it often to <strong>clear plane and spokeshave throats<\/strong> of dust and jammed shavings, especially when I need a clear look to adjust the projection of a blade. The bristles have been shortened to give them helpful stiffness.\u00a0This brush\u00a0gets all sorts of other duties clearing dust and chips in small tool places and spaces, including where there may be some <strong>oil hanging around<\/strong>. This might include bandsaw bearings, screw heads in machinery, plane and blade\u00a0parts, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>When <strong>cutting joinery<\/strong>, I do not want to use that brush for clearing chips and dust that didn\u2019t get blown away from tiny spaces.\u00a0So, I use the other brush in the photo, labeled &#8220;<strong>for joinery<\/strong>.&#8221; It stays away from any oil.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt this simple work habit would be found in woodworking books and articles. It\u2019s the kind of thing that I imagine an apprentice might pick up from his teacher without it ever being mentioned. That\u2019s one place where <strong>blogs<\/strong> are handy, to share this kind of tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a little tip that you may find helpful. I use these little brushes constantly in the shop. The lower one in the picture, with the red collar, is labeled &#8220;oily.&#8221; I use it often to clear plane and spokeshave throats of dust and jammed shavings, especially when I need a clear look to adjust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-and-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}