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De-rusting and Warranted superior saws
Today for my daily one hour of shop time, decided that I would work on combating our arch rival nemesis of tools, rust!Now that I can walk around the garage floor, I thought it would be a good place...
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Happy national holidays
Friday was Canada Day on July 1st, also the 100 years anniversary of the battle of the Somme in France in WWI. Why significant to us? It was the most deadly and longest fought campaigns of WWI. Canada...
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The Ubiquitous Millers Falls No 2 hand drills
This past Sunday on our way to help a friend with his house projects, we stopped at my usual Sunday morning flea market in Wilmot.The same vendor keep coming up with brace and hand drills, good stuff,...
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The passing of a giant Canadian
Mr Leonard Lee, founder of Lee Valley and Veritas, passed away. Thursday morning.I would forever remembered him as a caring and genuine individual.I had the pleasure of meeting him a few times, both...
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More rodents problems grrrr
After removing the rodent nest that made itself a home under my car hood and proceeded to chew my wiring, they now have attacked the bird seeds food container.Said container used to stay inside the...
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Why do we collect tools
That question came up during some recent discussions between Gerhard Marx, Frank Bartlett and myself, half way around the world. (they are both on the African continent)I just saw the post by Gerhard...
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Talking of "Ahem" collecting... or was that just edging my bets for my kids?
For the past couple days, a heat wave has returned, very humid and sweaty weather. Between that and the need to "move" my car more often to prevent those @$#&%*$ rodents to resettle under my car, a...
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Type dating a Stanley plane
Since I am in the process of doing my usual stuff with my latest tool finds, I thought it would be a good time to go over with you about deciphering the various Type studies and how to use them to come...
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Bob's illustrated Type study of Bailey bench planes. Part 1 The collector's...
I decided to break it into two parts, this being too long.Part 1 The collector's models years. Type 1 to Type 7 Part 2 The user's models years. Type 8 to Type 19This I intend to be a living document. I...
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Bob's illustrated Type study of Bailey bench planes. Part 2 The user's models...
Continuing on our illustrated Type study listPart 1 The Collector's model years Type 1 to 7 can be found here TYPE 8 Stanley 1899-1902All features of Type 7 except;"S" casting marks eliminated from...
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Dog's day afternoon
The day started innocently enough... Turn on the computer to be greeted by a message that says Update to Window 10 free until Jul 29th. So I thought, well that probably meant they are about to ditch...
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Big moves at The Greenwood Aviation Museum
This small aviation museum situated at the entrance of 14 Wing Greenwood, is growing in leaps and bounds in an effort to represent one of each types of aircraft that were associated with the base since...
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J W Farr & Co of New York
In my recent chocolate's run (Tm :-) I picked this little 3/8 dado plane, stamped J.W. Farr & Co New York.A dado plane is similar to a Rabbet plane but characterized by the addition of a depth stop...
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Woodworking books on E Readers
As much as I still prefer the tactile experience of a book in my hands, lately I have been looking at Kindle Ebooks to install on my IPad.As with most E Readers, KOBO, Kindle and etc, you can download...
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Delta first power tool...
Well, human powered that is...The Delta Specialty Company was founded by Herbert Tautz in 1919.The American Boy Scroll Saw was the first breakthrough Delta product invented by Tautz in 1923.The...
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Some saw I"ll say!
That little American Boy Scroll Saw I got the other day, got me intrigued.I marveled at its simplicity and effectiveness, and wanted to know more about it... after I was done playing with it :-)For...
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It's good to be back home
The Bob and Rudy travelling circus is back home after a 3 weeks trip thru New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario, seeing family and friends.The primary reason for this trip was to attend Heather's life...
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The amazing North Bros No 1545 hand drill
As far as hand drills goes, this one hit all the right boxes.Size comparison From L-RMillers Falls No 12, North Bros No 1545, Millers Falls No 5As picked by Rudy in the line up :-)It is sized like a...
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On Rat Patrol...
Ever since I discovered some rodent's nest under my car hood, and was told that it happened a lot with retirees... What? Well yeah, our cars don't move as much as they used to...So ever since I have...
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The Collector versus User debate
...In my head...Full disclosure, I am a bit of both.And depending on who you asks, they will tell you I am one or the other, rarely both... Go figure :-)This is one area that we did not touch much on...
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