Thread: A Lee Speed stock

Has been a few weeks of getting on top of the knife order book but was finally able to get back to the stock.
First thing was to get the blank through the thicknesser to straighten the flats then to square the top line.



Placing the pattern on the blank I made sure the toe of the stock would have correct grain flow for strength in that area while trying to get the best grain show for the finished stock. I then marked in the comb line, the wrist and the socket lines. Set the bevel off the top and set the saw to cut the socket face.



Cut of the un needed bits on the bandsaw.



Then I sit a spare action on the face of the socket nose and mark round the outside.





with the socket lines marked accross the flats and cut down with a small fine toothed tennon saw it is time to start on the socket tennon. Normally with straight grained wood I would do much of this with chisels but there was grain run in toward the socket on one side so I reverted to my extremely effective French hand stitched Logier rasp and this has been the very best rasp I have ever used, Expensive but worth every penny. Normal rasps have teeth lines up one behind the other do you end up with grooves when you use them but the Logier has teeth that are between each tooth ahead on every line so you end up with reasonably smooth cuts from this very sharp tool.

Video of the making of the logier rasps.

https://www.google.com/search?q=liog...09O3d8y9Q,st:0