Category: tools
-
IT’S ALIVE!! Restoring an old nose auger
Picked this up in Ruckersville VA a few weeks ago… Looked like it has enough metal to grind down to under the pits. I was right Almost 1 3/4″ across. Careful use of belt Sander outside then a drill mounted drum on the inside. Touch up the tip with the Dremel rotary tool. Not easy…
-
Weekend Antique Shop Finds
Went to visit inlaws in Ruckersville VA last weekend. Fiber Fest on Saturday. Antique hunting on Sunday They gave me a discount on the barn boring machine that I couldn’t refuse. And I got a 1 1/2″ nose auger. Go make something.
-
The Green Wood Wright’s Fest
Hi all First day at the Green Wood Wright’s Fest in NC. The gate Some plants that I don’t recognize. A really big spoon gouge. Go make something
-
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,…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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.…
-
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…
