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Two in One Broom Machine
The original of this is owned by Mark Hernig at Kick and Stitch Brooms. He did the hand sketches that you will see, and provided the critical dimensions for me to make the CAD drawings so that anyone building this will end up with a working machine. this construction can be easily be broken down […]
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Ft Mifflin shingle project update
after spending months pursuing a log that I did not get, I stopped by a tree service operation this past Monday to ask about getting some white oak from them. while the responses I usually get are along the lines of “don’t bother me” their response was “how about a truck full?” there may be […]
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Broom Making Machine 1
Broom Making Machines, or presses, or apparatussessess, apparatii, apparatus… Aside from the factory made ones, The variety and ingenuity expressed in these (usually) one of a kind constructions is a testament to human creativity that should not be lost to history. So I am making 3D CAD drawings of any and all that I can […]
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First post 2021!
Happy new years! here’s hoping! First thing this year I am hoping to set up this site to be able to sell the odds and ends that I make for craft shows.. So there are some minor changes in the pipeline.. I’m drawing some plans for various crafting equipment. I’ve decided to ask for donations […]
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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 […]
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Making Tools: Workbenches (partial)
Warning!!! Stream of Consciousness ramblings about workbenches and how I use them! Proceed with Caution! I cannot think of anything to say about workbenches that hasn’t already been said, and said better by other people. Tolpin and Schwarz both wrote books specifically about workbenches, they are good books. you should read them too. and just […]
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Make a Democratic Chair class with Elia Bizzarri and Curtis Buchanan
Oct 10 Last weekend I was antsy about taking this class so I started splitting out some stock early. Now I’m even worse. They could have told us how to make the templates in the email (I’m going to suggest that). Now my brain is demanding that I have got to get outside and make […]
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This year so far.
I promised myself I’d keep posting at least once a month if not once a week this year… Apparently not happening. Back in June I finally got a log of white oak (chinkapin oak specifically) for the roof shingle making project. The Ft Mifflin forge’s roof is in bad shape. And I also acquired a […]