| Wednesday, January 7th 2009 |
Well its been 5 or 6 months
since my last update to this page, and plenty has been going on since
then. Started another dovetailed plane, click
here, and found some beautiful infill planes, click
here.
On Christmas day my father gave me grandfather's tool chest. |
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| Sunday July 20th 2008 |
Tap for the square thread on
the lever cap screws on infill plane lever caps.
click here
for a link to my plane making page. |
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| Saturday July 19 2008 |
The tools of William Slomell.
Pipe maker, worker in Tortoise shell, Ivory and Amber
click here |
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| Saturday July 19 2008 |
A couple of recent finds, 2
later Mathieson planes, a skew mouth steel rebate plane, and a boxed
toothing plane and a larger Lancashire pattern hacksaw.
can be seen for a while on my recent finds page ....click
here
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| Thursday April 24th 2008 |
Tools and photos from M.
Hurwitz Pty Ltd, Melbourne, VIC Australia. c1950
click here |
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| Thursday April 24th 2008 |
Small screw press and punches
and dies used to make jewellery components
click here |
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| Thursday April 24th 2008 |
A guided tour of my Jewellers
bench.
click here |
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| Friday April 18th 2008 |
A window into the 1850's - a
carpenters tool chest and tools.
click here |
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Thursday
November 3rd 2007
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Finally finished the
dovetailed smoother...started in Jan '07.
click
here |
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Thursday
October 18th 2007 |
I've made a GALLERY page of
Tool making and restoration. click
here |
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Monday
October 15th
2007 |
Made a start on
the wood infill on the dovetail smoother, using some Australian
Blackwood. The next few step are to chamfer the brass and make
the blade set in tool steel. Then it will be close to final
assembly...once I stamp my mark into the lever.
click
here |
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Wednesday
October 10th,
2007 |
This little smoother started
as length of 1 1/2"square
extruded brass tube found at the scrap metal merchants. I
made the lever cap in brass using a hacksaw, drill and files, and set a gemstone
into the lever screw, a Lapis Lazuli. Pictured here next to a Norris
dovetailed #2 smoother.
More pictures... click
here
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Monday
September 24th, 2007 |
These two
planes started with a length of 1 1/2"square
extruded brass tube found at the scrap metal merchants. I
made the lever caps using a hacksaw, drill and files. I
wanted to try a couple of techniques for planemaking,
especially soldering bases on with lead solder, and also
using silver solder to fabricate the body. This allows
the base to be filed for the blade with the front open.
see
here |
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Monday
September 10th, 2007 |
Back onto the
dovetailed smoother...making the levers using a saw drill
and files. And making knurling tools for the knobs. Dovetailed
brass sided smoother.
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Friday
September 7th, 2007 |
Called into a
shop today, one I don't go near all that often, and found
he had a 50% off sale...
A cast brass infill smoother with the ugliest knob ever,
a hand vice, a couple of files and an odd little surface
plate. Also a few to be seen for a while on my recent
finds page. |
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Monday
August 6th, 2007
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The dining
table is FINALLY finished, it was such a pain to have it
in the workshop because its so big, and at last the rest
of the tools in the workshop can now be seen and used
again!
more
pictures here. |
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| Used the newly
rediscovered lathe to make some carving
mallets. in some really hard and heavy woods I've
been saving for years. |
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| Also turned a
blank in blackwood to try out the 50mm tap and screw-box
for making vice
screws in wood. |
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Saturday
August 4th 2007
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A prelateral
#2 Stanley. It's a real gem of a little plane.
A couple of pictures can be seen for a while on my recent
finds page with a few items found at the Melbourne
tool sale July 21 & 22. |
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