Building The Wine Rack Part I

Alas, I was no Last Minute Elf. I tried to have two (2) projects done before Christmas. One still sits — barely started — on my miter saw wing. The other, having been finished on Christmas morning, now sits in my Mother’s kitchen. I’ll regale you with the tale of the frame once o finally build it. Here is the tale of the Wine Rack.
Design
When I had decided that I wanted to build a wine rack for my mom, I began by looking at other racks. I did most of my looking on Pinterest and created a board of the designs I liked.
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New WWMM video

Steve Ramsy from Wood Working for Mere Mortals posted a new video today!
You can see all of the 2013 Shop Tour Videos here.
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N?1 Spiers Dovetail Plane

This post has written by Vittorio Thinking of metal planes I often think to Stewart Spiers
I like much the side profile and handles, so I searched for a model; I found it on the Handplane Central website, so I adapted the draw for a 2 inches blade and tried to building the plane.
I used Fe 430 steel bars (5x70mm) for sole and sides, joined the two sides in three points by countersunk screws (in this choice the screws do not interfere while the pieces are clamped in the vice) and cut the tails.
  The mouth is opened by boring it with a 3 mm tip, hack saw blade and a 2,5 mm file. I obtained two angles, one of 47° (seat angle) and the other of 45° (wear angle).
The blade support (47°) is fixed by 3 iron rivets (dia. 6,5 mm)
The sole is prepared for jointing and the classical Spiers profile is cut. Beautiful but a little bit laborious.
Sanding by 80 grit abrasive paper (sides are screwed to a piece of wood)
During the tail peening, if joints are precise, 2 mm of extra length are enough, otherwise 3 mm are necessary for closing all gaps. 
Lever cap: I could not imitate the original because had not a model; however the job was acceptable for me.
The chipbreaker showed some rusted areas, so I sanded it (80 and 120 grit) and created the profile for a good adherence to blade at cutting edge.
The Sorby blade is 2" wide parallel iron (from e-bay); 25° bevel, 30° microbevel.
The cap iron screw (M8, 16 mm head) was built by welding together a rectangular nut with a screwed rod. 
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Jointing Fence

Squaring board edges is one of the typical job for traditional woodworking hand planes where they show their effectiveness. Stanley produced the famous...
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Brooklyn Welcomes Lie Nielsen

This weekend the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Events are coming to Brooklyn. Theyll be at 3rd Ward (195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237) on Friday, 1/4, from 10:00 to 6:00 and on Saturday, 1/5, from 10:00 to 5:00.
Tools for Working Wood will be there, and theyll be open.
In addition to their own wonderful wares, Lie-Nielsen will be bring some top notch tool makers to Brooklyn with them. Daed Toolworks, M.S. Bickford, Guarino Furniture Designs, Northwest Woodworking Studio & Tools For Working Wood will be at 3rd Ward too. In fact, rumor has it +Matthew Kenney (of +Fine Woodworking) will be there too.
What a pretty view in Brooklyn.
Im going to try to make it on Friday afternoon, but dont wait for me. Check out the show (and say hi to Matt).
3rd Ward
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This Just Might Go To My Head

I’m proud to say that I’ve just had my second full length article published in Fine Homebuilding. This article is about the proper choice to flash a chimney...
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Woodworking in America Through The Eyes Of My Friends

br Ive just about posted all of the content I created and recorded at Woodworking in America 2013. Luckily, my good friends +Tom Iovino, +Sean...
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