Category: tools
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Making Wooden Screws 1
Wooden Screws, wood threading, screw making etc has been a bane of my woodworking career for as long as I can remember. Way way back at my beginning, I bought a couple of “ordinary” (cheaper) taps and screw boxes (the die of wood threading) expecting ordinary results. The threads broke off, or the cutters broke,…
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Brainstorming a “Whatsit?”
In the above video there are a bunch of tools that you might recognize. and one or two that are unusual. like the twyble with the bent tips.. at the end he makes a flax break with te tools that he sharpens. In another film like this a gentleman make a spinning wheel and then…
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Inshave, Scorp, Box Scraper, and I’m not going to make any friends with this post.
I get rather shirty over the whole inshave/scorp thing. I shouldn’t but there it is. I was taught that an inshave has two handles and a scorp has one. I don’t mind people mixing Them up. Their jobs are interchangeable so If someone mixes the names up it’s ok with me. It’s the damn Box…
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Tools of the trade 13: and, Making Tools: Marking Gages
Having covered hand planes, you need to know how much material to take off. this is where your Marking Gage comes into play. Also the marking gage is usually one of the first tools someone makes for themselves so… Marking gages are super simple to make, and you will need a couple during your career.…
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Making Tools: Straight Edge
I fear that I may open up a kettle of worms with this one. In order to produce a truly perfectly precisely accurate straight edge most machinist manuals will tell you to make 3 straight edges, and there is a process to “prove” them against each other… I’m not working in metal, I do not…
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Project “more than I can chew” part 2
When pounding on iron, it might be a good idea to STOP when your arm is so fatigued that you can’t hit it where you want to… I took my pile of iron and steel scrap and I have made a “stock knife shaped object” (SKSO?). this: into this: like I said, I only…
