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Hand Tool Forensics #3 - We Have a Winner!

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Third installment of Hand Tool Forensics . See if you can identify the operation and hand tool that produced this waste. Akin to mechanisms of injury. Seeing an end result and determining the cause.

What was I doing, and with what?

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The ends were sawn and waste removed with a chisel. The waste gets finer as you get closer to size. There are also crumbs that I would guess come from chopping end grain. Some of the pieces appear triangular. My first thought was dovetails but the angled waste could just be chisel angle.
 
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Cutting a dado (or rabbet) cross-grain? Kerfing plane and chisel, if I know you.

- Dave Polaschek
DING, DING, DING … we have a winner! Yes Dave, I was cutting cross-grain dados with a chisel.

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Didn't use the kerfing plane … I just free handed a backsaw this time!

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I did almost the exact same thing putting the uprights into my file till just last week, so the leftovers looked familiar. And I free-handed a backsaw as well. Cutting all the slots for all the files gave me a lot of practice sticking to my line.

Edit to add: the chunks were too thick for a dado plane, which was my first thought, but I'm pretty sure you don't use one of those very often.
 
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I did almost the exact same thing putting the uprights into my file till just last week, so the leftovers looked familiar. And I free-handed a backsaw as well. Cutting all the slots for all the files gave me a lot of practice sticking to my line.

Edit to add: the chunks were too thick for a dado plane, which was my first thought, but I'm pretty sure you don't use one of those very often.

- Dave Polaschek
I had a feeling you would get this one. I find it easier just to chop out the waste with a chisel when cutting dados. I will use a rebate plane on rebates, though.
 
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