Finally got around to finishing the quick and nasty wooden edge guard for the 11 inch draw knife.
Ok it won't win any prizes for loveliness but it will do the job.
All I did was split a foot or so length of 35 mm by 15 mm pine scrap on the band saw into 3, ensuring the middle section was the same width as the blade, drew around the edge of the blade I wanted inserted on the middle section, cut out the waste, again on the bandsaw ensuring the cutting edge of the knife wouldn't actually touch the bottom of the recess when the shoulders were hard against the top of the guard. Then it was just a case of gluing it back together, letting it dry clamped in a vice, yacht varnishing to reduce moisture getting into the wood and generally toughen the surface and tacking on some straps to hold the thing in place . I added a few more tacks to reinforce the bottom edge, not that the glue would fail being some stuff I use for areo modelling. The wood around the glue would fail first!
Raining here so not going to the boot. Herself picked up another old school tool box yesterday, £12, but nicer than the last two, this one has proper dove tailed corners. Just needs a lick of paint and coner reinforcings.
ATB
Tom