188 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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Just before we left on our trip, my parents came up from Florida to visit in the last week in October. With them, besides lots of laughs and smiles and good times with the grandkids, they brought me some of my Dad’s tools that had been collecting dust down in the sunshine state.
He decided that since he wasn’t really doing anything with them, he’d rather see them in my shop making sawdust rather than collecting dust. Who am I to argue with the wisdom of my father? Espe...
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961 days ago
by wichle |
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Today, Tuesday at the Treasure Mart in Ann Arbor the were unloading a great workbench. 3” thich maple bench top, metal drawere and an overhead shelf. It’s heavy. It was not priced but their prices are good. Also a really antique . . .really antique, bad shape, Craftsman table saw on a stand. With motor. It is outside in the driveway, left side as you face the building from the sidewalk.
Over in Wisconsin at the Waukesha Antique Mart, a number of cases of wooden planes. C...
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1078 days ago
by swirt |
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Back in my Great Uncle’s Old toolbox (he was a finish carpenter in the 1930’s) I found this odd circle marking / cutting device that is used in a brace.(The tri-square in the photo is 6” long)The arms are fully adjustable in length from roughly a 1/2” radius out to ~3” So it could mark out a circle out to about 6” in diameter. Given the design, the outer edge of the circle could never be less than ~1 1/2” in radius.
The center post (pivot) has no...
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1080 days ago
by swirt |
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My Great Uncle was a carpenter back in the 1930’s. I recently had the chance to go through his old toolbox and marvel at some of the old tools. Most of them I could figure out, but these two have me scratching my head.They are wooden paddles. One with a straight wedge design (the lighter colored one) and the other has a slight curve to it. The handles have a lot of patina so they saw a lot of use, but there is no heavy wear or damage to the paddles themselves that would indicate lo...
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1676 days ago
by lethentymill |
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You can’t do a project like this without being impressed by the beauty and brevity of the names of the tools. No fancy Roman or Greek words, they’re all earthy old Anglo Saxon or old French: Adze, axe, awl, wedge, mallet, froe, to say nothing of scorp or felloe – I could go on and on, but as we are coming to “saws” and “planes” and “braces”, I thought this was a good time to bring this matter up. The age of these words indicates the venerable history of these tools.
I looked a few of th...
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