Tag: tools
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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…
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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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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…
