Bora Woodworking
Meeting people is the best part of any Woodworking in America. This past year I had the pleasure of meeting Craig Ursell of Affinity Tool Works. Affinity Tool Works represents the Tormek, Bora, Dtec Diamond Blades, Footprint Tools, Lynx, Pax and Fish Drill Bit brands. At Woodworking in America, Craig and his staff were showing off the Tormek sharpening system.
After Woodworking in America, Craig sent me a 50 Bora Clamp Edge Wide Track to try out.
Like the standard Clamp Edge, the Clamp Edge Wide Track works as a straight edge clamping tool. Its designed to be used as a fence that clamps onto the workpiece. Then just about any cutting tool can be run along the Clamp Edge to create a perfectly straight line. The Clamp Edge Wide Track goes a bit further though, in that it adds T-tracks that accept ¼ x 20 bolt heads so that jigs and other accessories (such as the Bora Saw Guide) can be attached. Both the standard Clamp Edge and the Clamp Edge Wide Track have pivoting clamping heads that allow them to be clamped to a workpiece at anything from a 0º to 22.5º angle relative to perpendicular from the edge of the piece.
I put the Clamp Edge Wide Track to work on a few projects. I used it as a guide for cutting Lexan for the window well cover I recently made. Though not exactly what Bora had in mind, the Clamp Edge Wide Track workled very well for this task of guiding a utility knife. The only trick was to place a piece of wood underneath the Lexan before clamping it, as the Lexan sheet itself was too thin and flexible for the Clamp Edge Wide Track to properly bite too.
I also used the Clamp Edge Wide Track as a stop for setting the fences on jigs I was making. While working on the Tin Can Caddies I had to make a jig for holding the side pieces as I used the hole saw to make the can holes. The Clamp Edge Wide Track worked wonderfully for this, allowing me to set the Clamp Edge on the line, then just hold the wooden fence tight to the Clamp Edge while I screwed it in, without having to worry about watching the line and trying to keep the wooden fence perfectly set on the line while it was being screwed in.
As the Clamp Edge Wide Track clamped tight enough to be used as a fence setting reference edge without shifting, Im sure it can easily handle the force of having a saw or router pushed against it to ensure a straight cut. It is certainly in this role, as a straight edge to guide a cutting tool, that the Clamp Edge Wide Track excels. It is straight & stiff and quicker & easier to install than any guide rail, short of one for a dedicated track saw.It is also in this role as a cutting tool guide that I have used it the least. For you see, I already owned a track saw. Any discussion of the Clamp Edge Wide Track would be remiss if it didnt mention track saws.
If ease of use & speed are the determining factors, track saws win out by a hair. However, if cost is included in the comparison, the Clamp Edge Wide Track is the much better value. For only $56.00 (amazon.com for the 50" model) plus a saw you already own, the Clamp Edge Wide Track will quickly & cheaply make your saw cuts much straighter.Overall, the Clamp Edge Wide Track is a great clamp-on straight edge and a great value. If you already have a track saw, it may take a little while to see its non-saw guiding value, but it is there. If you dont have a track saw, the Clamp Edge Wide Track will immediately be of tremendous use. Thanks Craig for letting my try out the Clamp Edge Wide Track. Itll continue to see plenty of use in my shop.
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| The Tormek display at Woodworking in America (thats not Craig, Im sorry I forget who that is). |
| The Bora Clamp Edge Wide Track |
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| These T-tracks allow Bora and shop made accessories to be used with the Clamp Edge Wide Track. |
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| Cutting this Lexan sheet, the Clamp Edge Wide Track was a great help. |
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| The stacks of wood are to become a fence screwed to the sheet of MDF. I used the Clamp Edge Wide Track to align the fence as I assembled this jig. |
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| Once the adjustable head is moved snug with the piece your clamping to, just through this large handle and the Clamp Edge Wide Track grips the wood tenaciously. |
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Modern Woodworkers Association Podcast 22 Megan Fitspatrick
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- Toms Bandsaw Box
- Building Pinewood Derby
- Chris Dollhouse Table
- St. Petersburg Woodworkers Guild
- Matt Kenney at Fine Woodworking: Its impossible to cheat at woodworking
- Steve Branam hosts Free Woodworking Classes at the New England Home Show (The Furniture Project)
- The Drunken Woodworker David Picciuto
- Lie-Nielsen at 3rd Ward last weekend
- The Woodworking Show in Western Springfield Massachusetts 1/11/13 - 1/13/13
- Megan Fitzpatrick, the new Editor at Popular Woodworking Magazine
- Megan discussed taking the reigns at Popular Woodworking magazine, how she got her twitter handle and the up to the minute info on Woodworking in America.
- Scott Meek, of Scott Meek Woodworks, maker of beautiful hand crafted wooden planes.
- Modern Woodworkers Association
- @MWA_National
- @tomsworkbench
- @highrockww
- @Dyami Plotke
- Google+
- Modern Woodworkers Association
- Chris Atkins
- Tom Iovino
- Dyami Plotke
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Signature Backsaw Handle
The following job has been done by Stewie S., from Australia. Stewie is passionate about making saws and wooden planes. He authorized me to publish his pics in order to collaborate to blog and increase content availability. Thank you Stewie!
After 12 months of making backsaws as well as trialing different saw handles it was time for me to consolidate my restrict my work to 3 to 4 designs only. This following handle shape is for backsaws 12" and above. I have attached photos that show you each of the important steps involved from start to finish.
I hope you find the following information of some help especially to those who may have considered giving backsaw making a go.
Here you can view the handle as its shaped to design paper template. Some rounding to the handle as well as the inside of the finger hole has also been completed. I prefer to drill and fit the saw screws very early into the work.
The 12" x 3" saw plate shaped and fitted within the handle.
To help me mark the harback mortise within the handle I prefer to use a spare length of hardback which is fitted to the toothline. The use of upper and lower hardbacks locks the external saw plate in the same parrallel alignment to that within the handle. A good method to use if you want to keep the saw plate nice and straight along the toothline.
To clean out the hardback mortise on the handle I like to use a variety of hand tools that also include planemaker floats.
In this photo you can see that the brassback has been cut to length, rounded off at the toe, and secured to the handle. The bottom line of the saw plate is also nice and straight.
The shaping of the handle is also nearly completed.
Hear you can see the final stages of sharpening the saw teeth. I chose to go for a 12 tpi. rip tooth for this backsaw. The saw vise clamping length was modified from its original 9 " to a new 23.5 "
The final look of the backsaw. The Tas.Tiger Myrtle chosen for the handle came up a treat. I only use 0000 steel wool between each coat of wood sealer and shellac. Another unique saw to add to my collection. Regards; Stewie
I hope you find the following information of some help especially to those who may have considered giving backsaw making a go.
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Ghetto WorkCenter Boom Arm Part V The Second Video
This second Ghetto WorkCenter video shows the completed WorkCenter. After making the saw tray and boom arm I kept going and moved on to make a tool holder. As I documented in my last post, I made the Tool Holder by coping the V design of the Festool Tool Holders. I made mine of wood and it mounts on the Ghetto WorkCenter. Now I can hang two tools on the WorkCenter while keeping the saw off the ground and the hose out of the choice.
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Lesson in carving

We knew Salvatore Mastrangelo at one of the many pleasant meetings we organize in the shop of our friend Daniele (left in the first pic). Salvatore is a really pleasant and exclusive person, full of life experiences. A true professional, filled with an uncontrollable passion for everything is related to woodworking.

He expresses with great skill most of all his outstanding artistic vein in the art of carving. 
This time we have "forced" him to teach us some good rule to acquire the best practice in this work and, under his leadership, we have tried to do some exercise. The quality of carving tools and their sharpness are fundamental prerequisites for best results.

In this regard, it is very useful to have a sharpening stone on the bench for honing more frequently the cutting edge of most commonly used tools. In the picture it shows a concave shaped oil stone that best fits the profile of some edges. Unfortunately the time available is never enough, but we memorized some good advice on strategies of work, the importance of a good initial design and the respect of plans on which the various details are located, in order to obtain a perspective effect.





