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#1 ·
This, My Friends, Is a Pencil Sharpener!

EDIT: Resurrected from Photo(scum)Bucket Hell, Feb 2018. Smitty

Picked this up at an estate sale, and only knew what it was because P. Leach had one in a Tool List some months ago. Yeah, I wanted the one he had, but just couldn't pull the trigger. This one was more affordable…

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Consider this style of sharpening an evolutionary dead end. At the time this was available, the other prevalent style of sharpeners were thimble-like devices with wings, that were turned. This is mounted to the edge of a table and the pencil is drawn across the iron. Not this one, though, 'cause the iron is jagged and quite dull. So out came the DMTs.

Old habits die hard; I wanted a flat back to the iron and that wasn't as easy done as said.

Flooring Wood Floor Tints and shades Composite material


Wood Finger Household hardware Automotive exterior Thumb


So I moved the stone to the edge of my bench hook to get better alignment of thumb and fingers.

Wood Hardwood Outdoor shoe Flooring Metal


With the back honed and flat all the way in, up to about 1/4" from the edge, all was right with the world. I'm confident the iron will not get more use than that in several lifetimes… I held the iron very low to the DMT to get a primary bevel on the face of the iron, the did just a bit of polishing with strop as final cleanup. There was lots of back and forth at this point, and I didn't take pictures. I did stop before getting it to my best level of sharpening… too small to hold, and it's only sharpening pencils, for goodness sake. That, and I'm certain someone will run their thumb across the blade to 'see if it's sharp…'

Anyway, another old habit. I simply had to flatten the 'frog' before setting the iron in place and giving it a try.

Wood Finger Thumb Gas Household hardware


Wood Finger Creative arts Thumb Art


Wood Motor vehicle Gas Steering wheel Auto part


It'll take some practice, like all good toolwork, but not bad for a shop pencil! Okay, it's pretty bad.

Wood Gas Desk Office equipment Office supplies


Love the new toy! Thanks for looking.
 

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#27 ·
This, My Friends, Is a Pencil Sharpener!

EDIT: Resurrected from Photo(scum)Bucket Hell, Feb 2018. Smitty

Picked this up at an estate sale, and only knew what it was because P. Leach had one in a Tool List some months ago. Yeah, I wanted the one he had, but just couldn't pull the trigger. This one was more affordable…

Gesture Finger Religious item Thumb Artifact


Consider this style of sharpening an evolutionary dead end. At the time this was available, the other prevalent style of sharpeners were thimble-like devices with wings, that were turned. This is mounted to the edge of a table and the pencil is drawn across the iron. Not this one, though, 'cause the iron is jagged and quite dull. So out came the DMTs.

Old habits die hard; I wanted a flat back to the iron and that wasn't as easy done as said.

Flooring Wood Floor Tints and shades Composite material


Wood Finger Household hardware Automotive exterior Thumb


So I moved the stone to the edge of my bench hook to get better alignment of thumb and fingers.

Wood Hardwood Outdoor shoe Flooring Metal


With the back honed and flat all the way in, up to about 1/4" from the edge, all was right with the world. I'm confident the iron will not get more use than that in several lifetimes… I held the iron very low to the DMT to get a primary bevel on the face of the iron, the did just a bit of polishing with strop as final cleanup. There was lots of back and forth at this point, and I didn't take pictures. I did stop before getting it to my best level of sharpening… too small to hold, and it's only sharpening pencils, for goodness sake. That, and I'm certain someone will run their thumb across the blade to 'see if it's sharp…'

Anyway, another old habit. I simply had to flatten the 'frog' before setting the iron in place and giving it a try.

Wood Finger Thumb Gas Household hardware


Wood Finger Creative arts Thumb Art


Wood Motor vehicle Gas Steering wheel Auto part


It'll take some practice, like all good toolwork, but not bad for a shop pencil! Okay, it's pretty bad.

Wood Gas Desk Office equipment Office supplies


Love the new toy! Thanks for looking.
this is an attempt to post the link to the Youtube video by Adam Savage re: the Iris and the Hovel:

Nope, could not do it, but search for the video entitled:

Adam Savage's Favorite Tools: Awesome Circle Drawing Tools!

Hope it works…enjoy!
 

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#28 ·
This, My Friends, Is a Pencil Sharpener!

EDIT: Resurrected from Photo(scum)Bucket Hell, Feb 2018. Smitty

Picked this up at an estate sale, and only knew what it was because P. Leach had one in a Tool List some months ago. Yeah, I wanted the one he had, but just couldn't pull the trigger. This one was more affordable…

Gesture Finger Religious item Thumb Artifact


Consider this style of sharpening an evolutionary dead end. At the time this was available, the other prevalent style of sharpeners were thimble-like devices with wings, that were turned. This is mounted to the edge of a table and the pencil is drawn across the iron. Not this one, though, 'cause the iron is jagged and quite dull. So out came the DMTs.

Old habits die hard; I wanted a flat back to the iron and that wasn't as easy done as said.

Flooring Wood Floor Tints and shades Composite material


Wood Finger Household hardware Automotive exterior Thumb


So I moved the stone to the edge of my bench hook to get better alignment of thumb and fingers.

Wood Hardwood Outdoor shoe Flooring Metal


With the back honed and flat all the way in, up to about 1/4" from the edge, all was right with the world. I'm confident the iron will not get more use than that in several lifetimes… I held the iron very low to the DMT to get a primary bevel on the face of the iron, the did just a bit of polishing with strop as final cleanup. There was lots of back and forth at this point, and I didn't take pictures. I did stop before getting it to my best level of sharpening… too small to hold, and it's only sharpening pencils, for goodness sake. That, and I'm certain someone will run their thumb across the blade to 'see if it's sharp…'

Anyway, another old habit. I simply had to flatten the 'frog' before setting the iron in place and giving it a try.

Wood Finger Thumb Gas Household hardware


Wood Finger Creative arts Thumb Art


Wood Motor vehicle Gas Steering wheel Auto part


It'll take some practice, like all good toolwork, but not bad for a shop pencil! Okay, it's pretty bad.

Wood Gas Desk Office equipment Office supplies


Love the new toy! Thanks for looking.
I'll check it out! In the meantime, it's still here!

Saw Tableware Gas Wood Machine tool
 

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#29 ·
Traditional Cabinetmaker's Tail Vise

This bench is at my dad's shop in a nearby town, decided it would get more use there than next to mine. He's not the kinda guy to use it, though, oh well. In the meantime, if you're looking at adding a tail to your bench build, thought it'd be worthwhile to post a few pictures showing the detail of the build way back when (bench is about a hundred years old, would have to guess).













It actually isn't as weird when you see the nits and grits.

Can't show you inside the actual tail; I glued that up as part of the repairs I had to make when I got the bench a couple years ago. That's also why a board underneath looks new: The orig was split, so I fashioned a replacement then waxed everything up before putting it all together.

Hope someone finds this useful in some way. And I'm willing to get additional pics if it'll help, just let me know.
 
#54 ·
Shop Fan Club!

Of all things vintage, needed an electric fan for the shop now that summer is here. Shopping for tools in the antique malls upstate from my small shop, I discovered electric fans are an expensive pursuit. Especially if it has brass fan blades. When I spotted this Westinghouse model for $5.50, knew there'd be a catch… As is. Rats. Took a chance though, and glad I did.



Straightened the bent the cage and added some machine oil before spinning it by hand for about ten minutes. At that point it started turning on it's own. Let it run for hours, it's good! Oh, and it is a 'variable oscillating' kind. Very handy! Now, paint it in vintage Stanley blue? Hmmm… :)

 
#83 ·
A Vintage Tool Chest

Bought this at Auction over the weekend, mostly to keep it out of the hands of an antique dealer. Nails at the hinges are the oldest I've ever seen - clinched and appear to be hand forged. Handles outstanding, also clinched. Plane tracks visible inside and out. But, no lid.



There are a few round (modern) nails driven in at the corners that I'll remove, and there are four more driven across the dovetails halfway up each corner (one visible in the pic) that would require surgery to remove. The whole chest needs to be disassembled and re-glued / clamped to make it right, and that's what I'm inclined to do… I'd like to complete this interior, build a top and make it a tool chest again.

No timeline, most important aspect is to be respectful of the history of this thing. For example, I'd love to keep the hinges installed as is and build onto the one board that still remains from the top (also evident in the pic), but what a pain in the arse to work that way when I think of what it'd entail. If I could be certain that the forged nails would live through the trauma, I'd pull them, straighten then re-use. I just don't know yet.

Feel free to comment / opine below, felt like sharing this with my LJ friends and collect some other perspectives. Thanks for looking!
 
#121 ·
Get a Handle On It!

Amazing to find that what's old is new again!

Japanned? Made in New Britain?



Four pairs with slotted screws, wrapped in wax paper.



One pair certainly destined for the sides of the wall-hung tool cabinet! :)



Where to go with the other three pair? Meh, no hurry to decide. Thanks for looking!
 
#133 ·
Help!! Looking for Old Iron Caster Wheels

Fellow LJs, I hope one of you can help me with a challenge!

I'm trying to (re-) build a tool chest and want to put steel wheels on it. Old ones. I have a pair, but need four.

Do you have two cast wheels / casters that look like this?



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Height and material and style important; having an exact match not so much. Have you held onto anything like these? Or if you have four wheels that are alike, would you be willing to make a deal with a fellow LJ?
 
#170 ·
Common Chest Handles

Working on a chest refurb, and pretty much the fanciest thing remaining on the old thing were the side handles.

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I'd not seen anything like them before, but now a second pair appeared on a trunk in a nearby antique shop.

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Wierd. No, I didn't buy the chest. Nice, but not $465-nice…
 

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#171 ·
Common Chest Handles

Working on a chest refurb, and pretty much the fanciest thing remaining on the old thing were the side handles.

Wood Gas Motor vehicle Machine Hardwood


I'd not seen anything like them before, but now a second pair appeared on a trunk in a nearby antique shop.

Wood Hardwood Wood stain Varnish Natural material


Handle Gas Metal Wire Fashion accessory


Wierd. No, I didn't buy the chest. Nice, but not $465-nice…
Did the other Chest have any similarities either structural or cosmetic to make you think they are related?
 

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#199 ·
Pulling an Iron Into Shape

Vintage iron on a 'new' tool for the shop, decided to take a few pictures as I walked through the 'sharpening' of the iron. first step is flattening the back, and that showed me a flaw: A convex back, meaning the sides aren't flat to the back overall.



After a few hundred strokes on the corse DMT, better but not wonderful. At a point, I moved on and will monitor performance of the tool over time…



Moving to the primary bevel, know that a sharp edge doesn't reflect light. This one sure did.



Worked it through the grits and raised a burr each time. It's the ragged edge visible below.



Strop on the iron…


And the chipbreaker…


And the #604C is working just fine!

 
#211 ·
A Stanley #50 in the House!

Won a Stanley #50 on the 'bay a few weeks ago. It had irons and a user-made box, but alas, a single rod. I sat the body of the plane in Evaporust and began a local search for a #50 rod.

Fluid Wood Gas Rectangle Metal


(And it looked pretty good after cleanup, right?)

Wood Gas Automotive exterior Auto part Hardwood


A machine shop in my small town took the challenge, and tonight delivered (to my door, no less!) old and new!

Musical instrument Wood Font Rectangle Magenta


Wood Automotive exterior Bumper Gas Musical instrument


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So it's in the box and complete!

Wood Motor vehicle Bumper Automotive exterior Gas


Does it work? Cuts with an iron 'out of the box' show promise!

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So an agile plough plane is in the house! Very cool when a plan (and plane) comes together!

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#212 ·
A Stanley #50 in the House!

Won a Stanley #50 on the 'bay a few weeks ago. It had irons and a user-made box, but alas, a single rod. I sat the body of the plane in Evaporust and began a local search for a #50 rod.

Fluid Wood Gas Rectangle Metal


(And it looked pretty good after cleanup, right?)

Wood Gas Automotive exterior Auto part Hardwood


A machine shop in my small town took the challenge, and tonight delivered (to my door, no less!) old and new!

Musical instrument Wood Font Rectangle Magenta


Wood Automotive exterior Bumper Gas Musical instrument


Hand tool Tool Wood Engineering Metalworking hand tool


So it's in the box and complete!

Wood Motor vehicle Bumper Automotive exterior Gas


Does it work? Cuts with an iron 'out of the box' show promise!

Wood Gas Tool Machine Engineering


Tool Wood Household hardware Metalworking hand tool Gas


So an agile plough plane is in the house! Very cool when a plan (and plane) comes together!

Wood Hardwood Art Machine Composite material
Smitty, you are on some kind of acquisition roll. Looks like fun.
 

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#226 ·
A Stanley #50 in the House!

Won a Stanley #50 on the 'bay a few weeks ago. It had irons and a user-made box, but alas, a single rod. I sat the body of the plane in Evaporust and began a local search for a #50 rod.

Fluid Wood Gas Rectangle Metal


(And it looked pretty good after cleanup, right?)

Wood Gas Automotive exterior Auto part Hardwood


A machine shop in my small town took the challenge, and tonight delivered (to my door, no less!) old and new!

Musical instrument Wood Font Rectangle Magenta


Wood Automotive exterior Bumper Gas Musical instrument


Hand tool Tool Wood Engineering Metalworking hand tool


So it's in the box and complete!

Wood Motor vehicle Bumper Automotive exterior Gas


Does it work? Cuts with an iron 'out of the box' show promise!

Wood Gas Tool Machine Engineering


Tool Wood Household hardware Metalworking hand tool Gas


So an agile plough plane is in the house! Very cool when a plan (and plane) comes together!

Wood Hardwood Art Machine Composite material
RE: shiny, sometimes Lysdexic sneaks into my shop and imposes his shiny self on selected tools. I can't help it…

Joe - I got lucky with this one for sure, having a full set of cutters (pre-1936) as well as the depth gauge and beading gauge. It's an older model; no chip deflector or cutter adjustment lever, but that just makes the overall condition of this one all the more amazing. I'm thinking it didn't get much use at all, but that ends now, as I'll use it plenty. Why? Because I'm not a collector. lol
 

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#247 ·
New Connections with the Past

EDIT: UPDATED to correct PhotoSucket shenanigans, Jan 2018. Smitty~

Went to see my Aunt and Uncle over the weekend, and came home with a very small, but important, set of items.



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The white 'blob' at the base of the picture is a sandbag. Doesn't seem like much, but way back when, my grandad had a real cabinetshop, and the sandbag in the picture is a third of three that I now have in my shop, stamped with my grandad's mark. My dad gave me two, and while I was talking with my uncle, I happened to mention LJs and a project post I made some time ago that had sandbags from the cabinetshop. He said, "I've got one of those, I think."

And he did. :) How cool is that? :)

The eggbeater is a Millers Falls 2A, with bits in the handle. Uncle said it was his dad's (my grandad). One problem: it's missing one of the three 'jaws' within the chuck.



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So if anybody has a loose one lying around… :)

The 4-fold ruler is an excellent Stanley two-footer, and it'll go straight into the tool cabinet. Also grandad's.

The handsaw is really something. My uncle had it hanging above a workbench (yes, it's got grandad's stamp on it, too), and when I asked about it, Uncle said, "Oh, that was Grandpa's saw." Meaning my great grandpa's saw. First a shot of the tote.



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It's painted brown, and has a missing medallion. The space where the medallion belongs has been carefully filled with water putty. I have a spare 'badge' and will match the parts up soon. Another couple pics to show the condition of the business end of this saw.

The teeth are very unevenly sharpened.



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And the teeth seriously need jointing.



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And the picture doesn't capture how bad it really is. Which brings me to some opine time…

My grandpa and g-grandpa depended on tools like that saw that now sits in my shop for their livelihood. And one or both of them had to sharpen it. Without the benefit of the web, or DVDs, or weekend training courses. And they didn't do it right. But even with the rusty blade, it cut wood just fine. I'm not saying it doesn't matter, but to me having tools perfectly set up in my shop matters just a little bit less. I'll halt progress in the name of perfection to some degree, but as my dad and I say, I'll settle for excellent more often.

I don't know what I'll do to remedy this tool's condition… It may get shortened to maybe 20", just to make it more useable. And that'll address alot of the 'curve' that's present. Will I remove the brown paint? That I don't know either. But it'll sit on my workbench for the next several weeks while I get in touch with my family's past, and I'll love it for it's imperfections.
 

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#248 ·
New Connections with the Past

EDIT: UPDATED to correct PhotoSucket shenanigans, Jan 2018. Smitty~

Went to see my Aunt and Uncle over the weekend, and came home with a very small, but important, set of items.



Wood Hand tool Saw Tool Gas


The white 'blob' at the base of the picture is a sandbag. Doesn't seem like much, but way back when, my grandad had a real cabinetshop, and the sandbag in the picture is a third of three that I now have in my shop, stamped with my grandad's mark. My dad gave me two, and while I was talking with my uncle, I happened to mention LJs and a project post I made some time ago that had sandbags from the cabinetshop. He said, "I've got one of those, I think."

And he did. :) How cool is that? :)

The eggbeater is a Millers Falls 2A, with bits in the handle. Uncle said it was his dad's (my grandad). One problem: it's missing one of the three 'jaws' within the chuck.



Hand tool Wood Tool Drill Metalworking hand tool


So if anybody has a loose one lying around… :)

The 4-fold ruler is an excellent Stanley two-footer, and it'll go straight into the tool cabinet. Also grandad's.

The handsaw is really something. My uncle had it hanging above a workbench (yes, it's got grandad's stamp on it, too), and when I asked about it, Uncle said, "Oh, that was Grandpa's saw." Meaning my great grandpa's saw. First a shot of the tote.



Wood Cookie cutter Font Hardwood Art


It's painted brown, and has a missing medallion. The space where the medallion belongs has been carefully filled with water putty. I have a spare 'badge' and will match the parts up soon. Another couple pics to show the condition of the business end of this saw.

The teeth are very unevenly sharpened.



Automotive tire Wood Rectangle Bumper Hood


And the teeth seriously need jointing.



Wood Tool Flooring Creative arts Sewing


And the picture doesn't capture how bad it really is. Which brings me to some opine time…

My grandpa and g-grandpa depended on tools like that saw that now sits in my shop for their livelihood. And one or both of them had to sharpen it. Without the benefit of the web, or DVDs, or weekend training courses. And they didn't do it right. But even with the rusty blade, it cut wood just fine. I'm not saying it doesn't matter, but to me having tools perfectly set up in my shop matters just a little bit less. I'll halt progress in the name of perfection to some degree, but as my dad and I say, I'll settle for excellent more often.

I don't know what I'll do to remedy this tool's condition… It may get shortened to maybe 20", just to make it more useable. And that'll address alot of the 'curve' that's present. Will I remove the brown paint? That I don't know either. But it'll sit on my workbench for the next several weeks while I get in touch with my family's past, and I'll love it for it's imperfections.
Nice! I can certainly relate to getting tools from grandfather/great grandfather… I've got a few of them as well. It's so cool to get them back to work again. Sounds like a good weekend to me :)
 

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#272 ·
Atkins 'Floral' Handsaw Refurb

Ornate carving, not seen it before. Medallion is Warranted Superior, not sure it's original. Repairs will be done, but I'm hoping for a pic of an original. Suggestions? Thanks!



EDIT: The saw's ID is clear, refurb steps captured below. This saw will be resurrected one way or another…

Here's the repaired handle.



EDIT #2:

Donor blade ID'd:



Cut, drilled and fit (broken orig. alongside):



EDIT: Done, see below.
 
#312 ·
A Wedge for a Round

A very quick installment to confess my sin: I destroyed a wooden, skewed rabbet plane today. Yes, I know, that's bad. Can it be justified, however, by the fact that it was already modified, not complete AND could be used to resurrect two more useful planes? The skewed rabbet has been around for a couple of years, unused. And crooked. Then I picked up four wooden planes last weekend that included a H&R pair. Owners mark and maker stamps matched on three of them, too. But neither the round nor the square rabbet had a wedge, and the profile needed an iron. Something had to give, so I decided to use the body of the old $5 rabbet to make a new wedge to match the one on the round plane.

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I cut the donor on the bandsaw and thinned it with jack planes (#5 and #62).





With some rasp and just bit of sandpaper work, the wedge and finial were done and I could move to the tip of the wedge for final shaping. Because the wedge of a wooden plane is shaped to eject shavings, it's an important detail. I patterned my 'new' one after the one on the hollow.





I used my Diamond Edge butt chisels to remove that material, using them as carvers almost. It was fun working with the beech. Neat stuff!

With all the shaping of the wedge complete, there's one question to ask: Does the plane work? Yes!



And the 'family' is together and complete.





Is it perfect? Well, no. But it's right, and makes the tool useable. My first attempt, too. So I'm happy. $20 into wooden moulders, and two complete H&R users so far. Next is to use the iron from the donor rabbet in the profile moulder shown on the left, above. It came without an iron, but I hope to reshape the donor into the right profile to get to three planes. More on that later…

As always, thanks for looking!
 
#313 ·
Smitty,

Nice refurb on the 'round', albeit cannibalistic, being a family member and all.

...but hey if you're gonna' make an omelette, you gotta break some eggs…
 
#335 ·
A Review of Folding 'Zig Zag' Rulers

Double post from another blog topic, but wanted to put it somewhere I could readily add to later. Here goes!

A very incomplete review of folding rules, and there are a number of variations. The first picture shows a vintage stainless steel Lufkin Rule Co. No. 1174 EM. It's an outside measure rule for English, and inside measure for metrics. Don't know how old it is.

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Another rule in the picture is the Lufkin Two Way, Model 966. It's an inside rule through and through, and reads from left to right and right to left as you may need it. Never read numbers upside down again! Really cool, and really hard to find.

Wood Publication Ruler Wood stain Font


Hand Table Wood Finger Desk


The next pic shows the problem of the 066F model Lufkin; it's an inside rule too, but reads upside down if you're measuring from the right end of a project.

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Last up is a real outside measure ruler. The Stanley #426. Aluminum, cool looking, but very impractical.

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Finally, a trick that my grandad used that has survived to this day: filing a small notch in the brass ends of stick rulers provides for a very handy nitche for the pencil tip to ride in when striking a line (like using a panel gauge).

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That's all I wanted to add to this topic. Thanks for looking!
 

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#336 ·
A Review of Folding 'Zig Zag' Rulers

Double post from another blog topic, but wanted to put it somewhere I could readily add to later. Here goes!

A very incomplete review of folding rules, and there are a number of variations. The first picture shows a vintage stainless steel Lufkin Rule Co. No. 1174 EM. It's an outside measure rule for English, and inside measure for metrics. Don't know how old it is.

Office ruler Ruler Font Publication Wood


Ruler Wood Gesture Material property Wood stain


Another rule in the picture is the Lufkin Two Way, Model 966. It's an inside rule through and through, and reads from left to right and right to left as you may need it. Never read numbers upside down again! Really cool, and really hard to find.

Wood Publication Ruler Wood stain Font


Hand Table Wood Finger Desk


The next pic shows the problem of the 066F model Lufkin; it's an inside rule too, but reads upside down if you're measuring from the right end of a project.

Wood Wood stain Publication Flooring Hardwood


Last up is a real outside measure ruler. The Stanley #426. Aluminum, cool looking, but very impractical.

Musical instrument accessory Guitar accessory Wood Cosmetics String instrument accessory


Finally, a trick that my grandad used that has survived to this day: filing a small notch in the brass ends of stick rulers provides for a very handy nitche for the pencil tip to ride in when striking a line (like using a panel gauge).

Wood Rectangle Font Tool Household hardware


That's all I wanted to add to this topic. Thanks for looking!
Smitty some fine examples. That old Stanley is different. I have never seen one. You have a great collection .
I will have to remember the notch, thats a nice tip.
I have about ten or so folding rulz and find myself going to that "one" ruler. I still use my 2 foot most of the time.
 

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#348 ·
How Do I Find These Things?

My son came to meet me tonight when I got home to tell me he of a 'scavenge' opportunity he lined up. Long story short, here's one of the things we rescued from the dumpster:

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The lock is in place, as is the keyplate. Now to find a key that works, tighten this thing up, and enjoy! No work to do with this one compared to the last one. Good times! :)

EDIT: Updated to replace Photo (CHUM) Bucket pics on 08 Aug 2018. Smitty
 

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#349 ·
How Do I Find These Things?

My son came to meet me tonight when I got home to tell me he of a 'scavenge' opportunity he lined up. Long story short, here's one of the things we rescued from the dumpster:

Rectangle Wood Table Composite material Gas


Wood Natural material Composite material Gas Metal


Brown Wood Composite material Tints and shades Hardwood


Wood Natural material Gas Hardwood Metal


Wood Bumper Rectangle Automotive exterior Gas


The lock is in place, as is the keyplate. Now to find a key that works, tighten this thing up, and enjoy! No work to do with this one compared to the last one. Good times! :)

EDIT: Updated to replace Photo (CHUM) Bucket pics on 08 Aug 2018. Smitty
That looks like a walk in the park vs the last one. You are swimming in chests, boxes and cabinets. Plans?
 

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#397 ·
A Wooden 'What is this?'

I picked this up yesterday for the material, but now I wonder what it is. Has some characteristics of an old drafting board, or easle, but it would have been very out of place to be where it was found. Clear and straight grained, no pin holes or ink marks. Jointed, but not bread-boarded ends.

Rectangle Wood Wood stain Composite material Flooring






Note the little 'shelf' pieces are on one side then the other. Like a 'Z' or zig-zag thing.

Any ideas as to the purpose of this thing? Thanks!
 

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#398 ·
A Wooden 'What is this?'

I picked this up yesterday for the material, but now I wonder what it is. Has some characteristics of an old drafting board, or easle, but it would have been very out of place to be where it was found. Clear and straight grained, no pin holes or ink marks. Jointed, but not bread-boarded ends.

Rectangle Wood Wood stain Composite material Flooring






Note the little 'shelf' pieces are on one side then the other. Like a 'Z' or zig-zag thing.

Any ideas as to the purpose of this thing? Thanks!
Looks like a top to a tilting/drafting type desk. Who knows?
 

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#418 ·
Natural Light is On The Way

Here's what I've had.



I've peeled the inside to prepare for a change.







This window will be installed tomorrow!



Looking forward to more light; about 35% more by my calculations, not that I've counted. :)

I'll update when it's in!
 
#451 ·
A Good Deal on Pecan?

Bought this rough-sawn, aged and cured pecan at auction today for $70:

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Eighteen boards between 5 and 8 inches in width, all 8' long, all at least an inch thick.

Good? Bad? Just 'fine,' or ?
 

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#452 ·
A Good Deal on Pecan?

Bought this rough-sawn, aged and cured pecan at auction today for $70:

Wood Road surface Rectangle Flooring Composite material


Wood Flooring Grey Floor Wood stain


Eighteen boards between 5 and 8 inches in width, all 8' long, all at least an inch thick.

Good? Bad? Just 'fine,' or ?
Sounds solid to me. About a $1 a bf, hard to go wrong there. Plus the cut offs and scraps are good in the smoker.
 

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#470 ·
Whatsit Update: It's a Typesetter's Composing Stick!

Found this at a flea mkt today, paid $2 for it. Well machined, smooth operation, obviously used.

Wood Rectangle Hardwood Composite material Wood stain


The 'arm' slides along the right wall of the main 'tray,' then is clamped into place.

Wood Wood stain Hardwood Gun accessory Gun barrel


I don't know what operation would need a three sided clamp that's 1/2" deep.

Brown Door Wood Revolver Wood stain


Maybe it's a part someone needs for a machine, or maybe it's forever an "I dunno." Can you help with a guess?

Thanks.

Brown Wood Door Gas Wood stain
 

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#471 ·
Whatsit Update: It's a Typesetter's Composing Stick!

Found this at a flea mkt today, paid $2 for it. Well machined, smooth operation, obviously used.

Wood Rectangle Hardwood Composite material Wood stain


The 'arm' slides along the right wall of the main 'tray,' then is clamped into place.

Wood Wood stain Hardwood Gun accessory Gun barrel


I don't know what operation would need a three sided clamp that's 1/2" deep.

Brown Door Wood Revolver Wood stain


Maybe it's a part someone needs for a machine, or maybe it's forever an "I dunno." Can you help with a guess?

Thanks.

Brown Wood Door Gas Wood stain
Could it have been an early version of a slide/keeper to fit on the right side of a desk drawer top to keep file folders from floping down, if the drawer was not completely full of folders?
 

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The DW102 Powershop Bench

Anyone on LJs have first-hand experience with this cabinet? Seen one? Have one?

Machine Gas Rectangle Monochrome Still life photography


The baffle appears to catch sawdust, but short of lifting the saw out of place, how do you extract the caught dust? Strangest design I've seen it awhile… I have the measured drawing, it offers no text as to how to 'use' this baffle feature.

Strongly considering building something close to this bench for my DeWalt RAS, and I'll include some type of dust collection that features a shop vac enclosed in one of the lower cabinets. But this baffle fascinates me.

Thanks for any insight you can provide!
 

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#489 ·
The DW102 Powershop Bench

Anyone on LJs have first-hand experience with this cabinet? Seen one? Have one?

Machine Gas Rectangle Monochrome Still life photography


The baffle appears to catch sawdust, but short of lifting the saw out of place, how do you extract the caught dust? Strangest design I've seen it awhile… I have the measured drawing, it offers no text as to how to 'use' this baffle feature.

Strongly considering building something close to this bench for my DeWalt RAS, and I'll include some type of dust collection that features a shop vac enclosed in one of the lower cabinets. But this baffle fascinates me.

Thanks for any insight you can provide!
So what your saying is that the baffle baffles you?
 

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A 'New' Medicine Cabinet

Need to replace an old steel medicine cabinet that's rusty on the outside chrome and otherwise in 'not so good' condition. It's recessed into the wall a bit, and surrounded w/ tile I don't wish to disturb. I'll make one of wood that's on hand, with a mirrored door. Many more pictures than words. Here we go!























Kind of a 'hybrid' shop effort (handplaning of stock, drywall screws and glue for joinery, along w/ some framing biscuits, shaper and #278 for rabbets), Progress pics are since yesterday; not a fast build, but a good clip for me. Now to make the door for mirror. More later!

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Door in work, will frame a mirror cut from the old cabinet. Frame from an old drawer front, also poplar with some veneer of pine on one side.







More to come. Oh, and this will get a nice coat of white paint (no kidding) so it 'goes with' the interior of the bathroom.

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An update of mirrored door progress: ready for fitting and hinge install.

 
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Reworking a Cheap F-Style Clamp

I bought a set of four F-style clamps a decade ago for probably $5 at one of those tool 'auctions' of new stuff, the precursor to Harbor Freight (perhaps). Anyway, over the years they've lost their 'grab' and I can't tighten them with any certainty, with any significant pressure. But I've held off throwing them away.

Anyway,

Today I wanted to clamp through a doghole in my benchtop and reached for one of these bad boys. Ground off the stud at the end so the turnscrew piece would come off, and tried the clamp. Rats, no hold.

I pulled the two flat pieces of sheet stock out of the 'head' and took a file to the holes in each, to put a square edge back on them. Well, it worked! With the clamp together, through the bench, it held like crazy.



Now to take apart the other three!
 
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Things that Arrive in the Shop

A couple of purchases from the 'bay panned out last week and came in the mail today: A box of New Old Stock (NOS) Stanley pulls, a 9" No. 21 SW combination square (the 7" is alongside just because, well, because they're a set now!). From another source came a 10" Cincinnati Saw Company backsaw. This is a company name run by George Bishop in the later part of the 19th century, from what I've read. They all look good together, and it's nice to have them join the shop party!

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Why edge pulls? I have no idea…
 

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#550 ·
Things that Arrive in the Shop

A couple of purchases from the 'bay panned out last week and came in the mail today: A box of New Old Stock (NOS) Stanley pulls, a 9" No. 21 SW combination square (the 7" is alongside just because, well, because they're a set now!). From another source came a 10" Cincinnati Saw Company backsaw. This is a company name run by George Bishop in the later part of the 19th century, from what I've read. They all look good together, and it's nice to have them join the shop party!

Wood Saw Hand tool Tool Hardwood


Why edge pulls? I have no idea…
Always nice to receive little goodies in the mail, I hope you put them to work and earn their place at the party
 

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