Peter McBride     Antique and Old Tools
Updated:-  Wednesday, 07 January 2009     home | antique and old tools | links | email       click on the images for a large picture

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Come back occasionally and see the changes or additions I've made to my Oldtools web page.

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

 

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
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

 

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.  
Also turned a blank in blackwood to try out the 50mm tap and screw-box for making vice screws in wood.  
Saturday
 August 4th 2007

 

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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