Month: December 2020
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Last post (here) of 2020
While this year has been a downer for some and a good year for a few… We have survived comfortably. The isolation has been an added weight to my mind, yet I always spend most of my time alone any how… (wife at work, kid at school, friends far away) I have done a lot […]
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Broom Making “Machines”
Hi: so I have a long abiding fondness for making and repairing the tools that other crafts-persons use to make their crafts. I have made 4 pottery wheels, repaired at least 6 spinning wheels, repaired one “barn loom”, etc… So recently I started looking at other crafts that extensively use wooden tools… I came across […]
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Inshave
About 35 years ago getting a new inshave was… Not impossible, but expensive and hard to find. So I took this old damaged drawknife, stuck it in my forge. And I bent it… I pulled it out and let it cool… And the blade was too hard to file to adjust the bevel… So I’ve […]