Next message: Norm of Bandersnatch: "RE: lv-ab: Woodwork tools."
I am very interested in woodworking on board and am also vexed by the
space issues for tools. Portable drills, saber saws, circular hand saw
are the obvious. There are some portable vices that clamp to things. I
found one that is a multi-tool, clamping vice, makes a drill press out
of a hand drill and also makes a wood lathe out of a hand drill. Breaks
down into very small storage, not as good as the real thing, but not bad
either. I turned a belaying pin on the lathe.
The real issue is shaping wood and joinery if you want to do good work.
That delta joiner and thickness planer just don't fit in the lazarette.
I have decided to get into hand planes to solve this, after all the
greatest woodworkers lived before power tools. I got an old Stanley
jointer plane, jack plane, and a few others. Building a case to hold
them in the lazarette with some anti-rust provisions. I have been an
electric jointer guy and am teaching myself to hand plane. It's a big
learning curve for me. Delta makes a very small bench top electric
joiner, I think a 4" with two blades, that could fit on a boat.
In general though, I think good hand tools are the answer on board. One
thing that is interesting to do is get book about old tools and look at
the contents of a master wood worker's tool chest from before the era of
power tools - hand saws, planes, chisels, etc.
Some kind of workbench is also needed. I have not figured that out, but
am considering something that would be basically a small hardwood
workbench top that would set up in the cockpit and breakdown for
storage. Vice would clamp on.
Bill Sellar
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