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Hand drill's How to
Since I had to strip one of my hand drill down to the last pins, figured may as well share what I know about these little beast.AÂ little historyThe form that we know today, an American invention, did...
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Milestone
On the 27th of Feb 2015, at the prodding of Ralph, I started blogging as a mean to keep myself together while my dear wife of 32 years quickly slipped away under my eyes to the dreaded lung cancer...
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Happy Canada day Heh !
Here in the great white north ( a reference to the snow ) it is our birthday.On July 1st 1867 we became officially the country that we would become today.There are many other dates you could pick, my...
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Inventory reconciliation day
Day??? Yah, I have been at it for a few days now :-)When you want to study tools, you necessarily accumulate a few...In theory as they come in the house they go thru my indoctrination process. Cleaned,...
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Addressing issues with wooden planes
Part of my continuing (As if there is ever an end?? :-) inventory check is to physically account them all to re conciliate both virtual and physical world. Since I have them all out, time to give them...
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Making slow progress
Getting there slowly but surely.Hand drills and block planes done.Finished all the H&R planes (28) yesterday and almost all the Beader planes (9)Â H&R and a few beaders.Last thing to do is to...
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Wood bench planes ailments
After completing the pile of H&R's and beader's I had out in the man cave, I thought the next pile I must move (before Jean lose patience :-) are the wood bench planes.Well, their irons are a lot...
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Inventory completed...
... well for now anyway, getting tired of soaking blades, brushing and etc. :-)But jokes asides, these past few days, being left alone, I did a constant marathon and pretty well done most of my 109...
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The double iron blade
Or a cap iron screwed unto a blade. I am not going to debate the merit or not of such an addition , simply point out some details I came across while cleaning a bunch of them. In the beginning, our...
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Why were the backs of the cap iron originally treated
First a quick recap.I mentioned a few times that the back on some of my cap irons looked like they had originally some sort of coatings on them. Black on the older English irons then some sort of blue...
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Uncovering faint markings on tools
Since I had the USB microscope at my desk, I played a bit with it, it's so much fun :-)I thought I shared with you some of the methods I used to uncover markings on tools, besides my calibrated (when...
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Small work holders
The size of the things you are working with, make a big differences in the kind or work holder devices you could uses.Lets look at a few. I just happened to recently added to my colle..err.. I meant...
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The Marples No 6809 Combination square and miter cutter
A recent find that spurred my previous posts on small work holders, it came along some of those :-)It is a combination cramp and mitre box for cutting 90 or 45 degrees cuts.It was targeted to the...
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Times is flying fast
About 1 month and a half before our wedding, things are starting to move fast :-)Because of Covid 19, we had to make a lot of last minutes changes with no doubts more to come as we approach our date of...
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The cast iron Garden gate project
She had these pair of gates for a while, a gift from her sister.I recently cleaned and paint them, time to hang them up.Being cast iron, they are rather heavy, so will need some stout posts. My...
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Garden gate project part 2
This morning I look over my hardware, some need a touch up. If I was smart I would had finished with painting my show faces up, cause doing it the other way, I picked up some lost paint on the show...
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A stiching saddle
I was intending to make one for my son, but at the rate I'm going now, may be a while, so I bought one at Tandy Leather.The elongated square block with a dowel is used to force the jaws open.Notice the...
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Handsaws for power tools users
Yes, even with a full compliment of power tools in the wood hobby shop: Table saw, band saw, radial arm, sliding miter compound saw, there are some cuts that can be only be accomplished or completed...
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Chisels for all woodworkers
 Yes, in this case that you works mainly with or without power tools, you still need a few chisels.How many and what kind??Surprise!  They also comes in a bewildering arrays of chisels types available...
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Planes for power tools users
 YES, you can still find them useful. So much that you may never look back once you tried.NO, you do not need the whole assortment available, me neither, but a few tools can make all the differences...
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