Winding Sticks

After gluing up the big maple beam that sits at the center of my tail vise, I found that I had some twist and bow in the glued up blank. Its a little oversized so I think I'll be fine when I trim it down, but this job looks like its more than my old-timey jointer can handle, and I don't have a surface planer, so I decided to make a pair of winding sticks to help identify the problem, and check that I'm on the right track when I fix it.
I made this set of winding sticks with some scrap cherry and the off cut of maple from my recently completed Maple "Bone" Folder; mostly with hand tools (I just ripped the cherry into two blanks with the band saw.)
The Tail Vise video where I discovered the twist is here: • Tail Vise Build - PART 3 There are three parts to that build series posted so far, with more to come.
The Maple "Bone" Folder video is here: • Maple 'Bone' Folder
I'll put these to work in the next Tail Vise video, which will be Part 4.

[@johnbesharian9965]

Very nice, simple, direct, effective and easy to understand "Old School" woodworking. How refreshing. They, the winding sticks, turned out very well and, hopefully, are still giving good, accurate service w/o warping. I surmise from the fact that you answered a comment 5 months later that the linseed oil soaked shop towel didn't spontaneously combust in the middle of the night and burn your shop down. This is a good (& preventable) thing.

[@moonlightsnowfall6734]

Thanks JB, the winding sticks are still nice and straight, and working well. One of so reasons I use small rags for linseed oil is so that the dry pretty quickly. I single, small piece isn't a risk for spontaneous combustion as it dries out. Piles of rags, or multiple folds retain the heat. In fact if I'm busy around the shop, I can use the same small piece multiple times. When it does start to get tacky, I can use it as a tack cloth on the next project. You're right tho, we should all be careful. Cheers!

[@lvttvn9365]

From Niterói Brasil with my thanks and congratulations.

[@moonlightsnowfall6734]

Thanks for watching, I hope you found something useful! -Phil