Comments on: One Old Exercise for Growing Skills

By: Jim C

Jim C — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:30:34 +0000

why 2 dado’s ?

By: Carlos Zenteno

Carlos Zenteno — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:09:23 +0000

Nice exercise block!

To be complete it should have a tenon and
some chamfers…

By: Dusty Lenscap

Dusty Lenscap — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:07:11 +0000

Perfect!

Something with which to gauge our skills and to practice on.

Mille mercis!!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:36:40 +0000

I have Gottshall’s book and I vaguely remember seeing this exercise but had completely forgotten it until now. What a great exercise and it is worth a try. I’m sure it will humble even the most prolific Galoots. Methinks I see a new event for the hand tool Olympics at WIA

By: Aluminum Extrusions

Aluminum Extrusions — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:37:19 +0000

Never seen it before either, Thanks for passing it along!

By: Bob Lang

Bob Lang — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:35:39 +0000

I also neglected to include the dimension for the distance from the far edge to the tangent point on the 1-3/8" arc; 3/4". I’ve corrected both in the 3D Warehouse model.

By: Bob Lang

Bob Lang — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:06:21 +0000

Good Catch Paul, that should be 5/8"

By: Paul Stine

Paul Stine — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:40:28 +0000

You sketchup image would seem to be missing the dimension of the distance between the long edge and the through mortise. The drawing is correct, the dimension has just been left out.

Perhaps putting in the dimension has been left as an exercise for the reader.