Tool Making

[Stophel]

I'm sure I've made various odd doo dads to fulfill a task here and there, but the only real tool of consequence I've made is a plane to cut out barrel channels.  It is NOT pretty, and is, in fact, rather crude.  Originally, I had it make an octagon channel, but it was troublesome, and I decided a better way was to cut basically just the bottom flat... a single "tooth".  It does well to quickly get some of the bulk of wood out of the way, I can cut it to the depth of the narrowest part of the barrel (and deepen the rest as necessary with a chisel), and chisel out the rest.

I'm sure I used to have a picture, but you know... Photobucket.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

Chris, if you still have a phot in your computer files, simply drag it to your desktop, and then drop it into the screen produced by clicking "Add Image to Post".  The URL will pop up in your post.  It's way easier than the old Photobucket system.