Tag: making 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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Steady on now!
Ok, calm down. You all (both of you) know that I prefer and promote hand tool woodworking, or as I often call it Pre-Industrial Woodworking. But i’m getting old (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it), 62, my back is all achy, knuckles scream and hurt etc. And since I don’t have and can’t…
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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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Medieval Rope Making
this poor guy looks like he’s trying to communicate that his illustrator has soo messed up drawing his rope making devices that they can’t possibly in any world work, and he knows he’s stuck there forever not being able to get his work done.
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Dovetail Plane
Many years ago, when the world was young and rocks were soft, I started making a dovetail plane. For those of you who don’t know what that is… It’s a molding plane with a simple angle for the sole, used to facilitate the making of sliding dovetails. Thus the sole is made at the angle…
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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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Making tools: Compass
With all us stuck at home I thought that now would be a good time for me to start a series about making your own tools. Thus thinking back… When rocks were soft etc. I’m asking myself what was the first tool I made. It’s a large compass. Everyone in the shop had one.…
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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…
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Project “more than I can chew” commenses
Hi; if you know me, you know this isn’t unusual. if you don’t know me, then you will come to realise this is so: for this week’s episode of “biting off more than I can chew”, I am looking at old leaf springs and my little forge… What I want to end up with is…