Tag: making tools
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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 […]
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How to make a Scratch Stock
Hi All; The subject came up of how to make a scratch stock, so I decided that would make a good post! Scratch stocks have been used for a very long time. Indeed scratching and scraping to make things from wood has been a technique forever. You can search the interwebs and find all sorts […]
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go devils
Hi: These small scrapers have other names, but I know them by the name of G0 Devils, because you can go like the devil with them. You can buy some really nice ones (rosewood and brass) from Veritas Tools, but I obviously made my own and that is what I am going to talk about today. […]
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Tapered reamers
Hi again! Did I mention I love making stuff? I do I really really do just love to make stuff, mostly out of wood. I also love the tools… I have too many of them. Long before I learned how to make Windsor chairs (from Mr. Michael Dunbar) I had read I needed a tapered […]