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Today I picked up this relatively unused 1-man saw.
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Today I picked up this relatively unused 1-man saw.
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Picked up three 2-man saws yesterday for $8.
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Picked up three 2-man saws yesterday for $8.
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When cleaning out my late father's place, one of the things I did to process the end of his independence was restore a bunch of the hand tools he'd used most of his working life. I looked forward to the ones I remembered from summers working on his job sites.
This was not one of those, nor was it complex. But it was one of the first, and I let myself go pointlessly overboard (it was fall 2020, you might remember the feeling; there were a few things going on.) It's just a pipe wrench (he did fancy kitchen and bathroom remodels, understandable he'd have one.) When I found it it was rusty and half-seized. Got it apart, wire-wheeled it down to clean metal, masked it, primed and repainted it, etc.
It was a good mourning-the-everything evening project.
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got a new blog post about a project of mine. This project is a restoring an possibly 100 years bandsaw machine.
https://www.dragon.engineer/post/bandsaw-restoration-part-1-collection-and-assessment
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The haft is done! Still need to dot the eye and sharpen things up,
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I use this old hatchet to split kindling. This was left at my house by one of the many previous tenants. As you can see in the photo, the haft is toast and the head loose. There was dry rot and missing material in the part of the haft seated in the head's socket. I am making a new haft from black walnut. I will clean up the axe head, sharpen it, and may even slightly modify the shape. I love giving old tools a facelift! #toolrestoration #handtools #woodworkingproject #woodworking
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What is this a new blog post? Is this the long awaited part 5 of the wood turning lathe progress? Well yes it is:
https://www.dragon.engineer/post/wood-turning-lathe-5-pulley-troubles
#woodworking #engineering #toolrestoration #restoration #lathe
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Three down, two to go.
I should've taken before pictures of the other two ratchets in this group but I am old and get ahead of (or behind) myself sometimes.
They were just about as rusty as the first one I restored.
All three have been lubricated lightly with oil (externally) to prevent rust and have a heavy duty grease applied to the inside of the ratcheting mechanisms.
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Three down, two to go.
I should've taken before pictures of the other two ratchets in this group but I am old and get ahead of (or behind) myself sometimes.
They were just about as rusty as the first one I restored.
All three have been lubricated lightly with oil (externally) to prevent rust and have a heavy duty grease applied to the inside of the ratcheting mechanisms.
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I'm restoring an old mitre saw. Got the rust off the faces, now on to sharpening. The number of teeth on this thing is too damn high.
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I'm restoring an old mitre saw. Got the rust off the faces, now on to sharpening. The number of teeth on this thing is too damn high.
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Final build on the semi-restored circa 1910-1918 #Bailey No. 4 #handplane for #woodworking. Probably not collector level. One of the previous owners etched their initials in the side, but I don’t care. I think it gives it character. Took a _lot_ more time than I thought it would, but I learned a lot.
I’ve put it to work in my tiny shop. Thank you to all of the people who previously commented and offered advice.
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Final build on the semi-restored circa 1910-1918 #Bailey No. 4 #handplane for #woodworking. Probably not collector level. One of the previous owners etched their initials in the side, but I don’t care. I think it gives it character. Took a _lot_ more time than I thought it would, but I learned a lot.
I’ve put it to work in my tiny shop. Thank you to all of the people who previously commented and offered advice.
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I found this one person crosscut logging saw in an abandoned cabin on the property. The handle was ruined by bugs and exposure to weather and the blade covered in rust. But a little time with a grinder with a wire wheel and the rust-b-gone! I also made a more better handle for it, but still needs the assist handle.
I do plan to take it for a test cut, but I need to get the tooth setting jig and sharpen the teeth first.
#toolrestoration #handtool #loggingsaw #woodworking #woodwork #woodworker
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A few restored tools.Restored tools including a Surform painted satin black with oak handles, two screw drivers.
I nearly always finish wooden handles with boiled linseed oil and wax. -
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A few restored tools.Restored tools including a Surform painted satin black with oak handles, two screw drivers.
I nearly always finish wooden handles with boiled linseed oil and wax. -
Another plane from that same box.
A Gage Self-Setting Smoothing Plane (1885-1919)Interesting to see what the Betamax-esque competitors to Stanley looked like. Big differences from the Bailey style planes that became the standard.
Didn't want to over-restore it without knowing more, but after dealing with some minor rust and giving it a light cleaning , it appears to be perfectly serviceable. I don't know that I need another smoothing plane at this point, but it's a nice piece of history (and I may have to sharpen the iron and take a few shavings just because).
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/6/1999762/-The-Gage-Tool-Co-self-setting-plane-1885-1919
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Another plane from that same box.
A Gage Self-Setting Smoothing Plane (1885-1919)Interesting to see what the Betamax-esque competitors to Stanley looked like. Big differences from the Bailey style planes that became the standard.
Didn't want to over-restore it without knowing more, but after dealing with some minor rust and giving it a light cleaning , it appears to be perfectly serviceable. I don't know that I need another smoothing plane at this point, but it's a nice piece of history (and I may have to sharpen the iron and take a few shavings just because).
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/6/1999762/-The-Gage-Tool-Co-self-setting-plane-1885-1919
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Does anybody have any tips on straightening out a wavy tenon saw plate?
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Does anybody have any tips on straightening out a wavy tenon saw plate?
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Follow-on to my last post about my stand-up hobby workstation. You weren't imagining it. This is an "Expanse" themed drill press, right down to the MCRN property identification tag! Yes, there's a story.
Back at the end of the last century, when I bought the run-down little 1943 house on the Oregon coast where my wife and I live, my dad showed up from back-east to help with repairs, and brought suitcases full of tools, hardware and parts from his own shop. I had only a few tools of my own at the time, and so this was mostly really useful stuff. But I didn't know what to make of this toy-like drill press that he gave me.
It was from KMart of all places, a long defunct discount department store chain in the US, known more for prices than the quality of their goods. The housing was not only plastic, it was BEIGE, like some kind of 1970 kitchen appliance. Surely it was junk. Dad helped, dad left, and the drill press went into the back of my tiny, cluttered garage, where I never had a space or reason to set it up. Then a storm blew part of the roof off the garage and lot of things were water damaged, including the drill press. We tore down the garage, put anything we could salvage into storage, and set about building a new stand-alone shop building behind where the garage had stood. I ALMOST chucked the drill press at that point, but something made me hesitate, and I put it into storage.
It stayed in storage for years, even after the rest of my tools went into my new shop. I'd see it back there once in a while, and I had some vague idea I could tear it apart some day and maybe salvage some useful gears or something. Finally, during the pandemic, I pulled it out and decided to tear it apart for fun and salvage.
But when I split the case, I was shocked. The plastic held a sturdy and well-made frame, a gearbox with all metal gears rather than the plastic I'd expected, and a nice little motor. Most of the original grease was no longer in contact with the gears and had mostly solidified into gunk, but the guts of it looked good. I scraped out all the grease residue and repacked with fresh grease. I replaced the rotted original power cord and strain relief, and put the casing back together. It worked! I was quiet and strong, and I simply couldn't trash it.
I took it back apart again, cleaned the corrosion off the base and upright, disassembled, cleaned, and lubricated everything. I mounted the pedestal to a store display cork flooring sample that I'd gotten for free from a local flooring store, and on a lark, I decorated it with striped safety tape and some metal trunk handles that I had laying around the shop, going for an industrial look. The drill actually looked pretty good, but that plastic case! That BEIGE! I had to paint it! But what color?
Well, this was the covid shutdown, so shopping was hard. I did have plenty of flat-black spray paint though, so... It looked -- almost as ugly as beige. I decided to experiment with some weathering techniques I'd learned from Adam Savage YouTube videos, and make it look like painted metal that had become worn and chipped. I also added some prop-replica stickers from the TV series "The Expanse" that I'd picked up somewhere.
While I don't know that it was ever shown on TV, in the books Amos Burton can often be found at has "machine shop" in the space ship Rocinante. Now, probably this machine shop is some kind of 3D printing or multi-axis CNC device, but who's to say it doesn't have a little drill press somewhere? Yes, it's absurd, but I thought it was fun, and a bit of a conversation piece.
I'm really glad I didn't throw this away. It was a fun project to restore it and make it useful again. It's not a precision device, but fine for a lot of light drilling tasks, and it goes with my new work station well.
#making #PowerTools #hobby #Workshop #toolrestoration #TheExpanse #KMart #vintagetools #retrofuture #maker #makers -
Around mid 2018, I came across this 12" parks planer in friend's basement among all of his vintage tools. he hadn't been using it and wanted space. so I took it off his hands for a decent price ( combination of money+beer+promis of help is hauling old iron around ). when I got it, it had significant problems so it took me almost a month to tear it down and rebuild it slowly. but after that it served me well for until I had to move back to canada. at that stage, I had to take hard decisions about some of my tools due to lack of space. I sold the planer after coming back to canada and opted to go with one of the lunckbox planers as a practical choice.
Here is video of it in action planing it's first ever board after rebuild. at this stage, infeed & outfeed rollers still needed adjusting. which is why board is not moving thru the planer smoothly. Fair warning.. video contains loud powertool noises. This printer kicks up a racket when it is operating even after filling gear box with grease.
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Around mid 2018, I came across this 12" parks planer in friend's basement among all of his vintage tools. he hadn't been using it and wanted space. so I took it off his hands for a decent price ( combination of money+beer+promis of help is hauling old iron around ). when I got it, it had significant problems so it took me almost a month to tear it down and rebuild it slowly. but after that it served me well for until I had to move back to canada. at that stage, I had to take hard decisions about some of my tools due to lack of space. I sold the planer after coming back to canada and opted to go with one of the lunckbox planers as a practical choice.
Here is video of it in action planing it's first ever board after rebuild. at this stage, infeed & outfeed rollers still needed adjusting. which is why board is not moving thru the planer smoothly. Fair warning.. video contains loud powertool noises. This printer kicks up a racket when it is operating even after filling gear box with grease.
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Over the years, I have had number of vintage tools entrust themselves to my care. some I nursed back to health and sent off on to their new owners, some I kept. I find that I enjoy restoring vitage tools as much as I enjoy using them.
One such toos was my delta Unisaw. baesed on serial number, it was built in 1951. a woodworker in denver area who specialized in restoring wood windows on old houses was moving and I picked it up from him. It had a laguna sliding table mounted on one side and newer 50" fence. but I got original fence as well as original left side extension wing along with it as well. I completly cleaned and lubed it, aligned it and used it for 3 years. But unfortunately had to sell it when I moved back home to Canada as there was no way I was going to be able to accomodate 2 cabinet saws in current garage. so newish 3hp cabinet saw won over 1hp unisaw. Based on serial number, it was built in 1951 in Delta/Crescent Milwaukee factory.
Incidently in the background of second photo is my 1970s Beaver 3401 gap bed lathe on which I first learnt to turn small items.
PS: No idea why I am feeling nostalgic lately but some more of my old tools may make appearence in future posts.
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Over the years, I have had number of vintage tools entrust themselves to my care. some I nursed back to health and sent off on to their new owners, some I kept. I find that I enjoy restoring vitage tools as much as I enjoy using them.
One such toos was my delta Unisaw. baesed on serial number, it was built in 1951. a woodworker in denver area who specialized in restoring wood windows on old houses was moving and I picked it up from him. It had a laguna sliding table mounted on one side and newer 50" fence. but I got original fence as well as original left side extension wing along with it as well. I completly cleaned and lubed it, aligned it and used it for 3 years. But unfortunately had to sell it when I moved back home to Canada as there was no way I was going to be able to accomodate 2 cabinet saws in current garage. so newish 3hp cabinet saw won over 1hp unisaw. Based on serial number, it was built in 1951 in Delta/Crescent Milwaukee factory.
Incidently in the background of second photo is my 1970s Beaver 3401 gap bed lathe on which I first learnt to turn small items.
PS: No idea why I am feeling nostalgic lately but some more of my old tools may make appearence in future posts.