Tuesday, December 9, 2008

A Handmade Infill

This is the second infill that I finished. My metalworking tools consist of a cheap benchtop drill press, a combo disk/belt sander, a hacksaw, and a bunch of files. This was made with a lot of handtool work...

The dovetails that connect the sides to the sole were cut and filed entirely by hand. The shape of the sides was cut with a hacksaw and refined with files and the sander.



It's 7 1/2" long with a 1/4" thick 1 3/4" wide iron. The infills are sipo finished with garnet shellac and wax.












More finished pics:



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