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Some collection of completed orders. It is not often possible to put together so many of our creations that has been made in a while. This morning before saying "Goodbye" to our work we had a chance to document this happen.
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Well into their old age, both my parents liked to be outdoors working. Here they were building a new road into their property. They'd received truckloads of free fill (= other people's unwanted dirt and garbage) and were smoothing it down, with handtools) to be able to drive over it. They landscaped it with plants, too, and did a good job of it all.
My mother was seventy here, and my father 76. He died twelve years later, and she 19 years later. They were both active until they died.
Tri-X in my Flexo TLR.
I made some stools, one tall Bambi-like for the shower and the other short, more sturdy and general purpose. Actually its very useful for weeding in the raised beds in the garden but also for sitting at a low work bench I made.
The tops are cut from leftovers from the temporary stairs, the legs from cut-down hoe handles fixed with glued wedged tenons.
You can never have too many screwdrivers and you are lucky if they have been made by J. Stead & Co. Ltd., Manor Lane, Sheffield 2, England and carry the "Steadfast" trade mark. Here is a selection of their products, ranging from a heavy engineer's driver on the far right, with a square shank and capable of withstanding blows from a hammer on its metal end cap, to tiny electrical drivers at 3rd and 4th from left. Colour coding was used for cross point drivers: amber handles for Phillips and blue for Pozidriv. The firm is no longer in existence and it has proved difficult to find any information about it on the internet. The only reference I could find is at:
www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/J._Stead_and_Co
It may have been taken over by Neill Tools, another Sheffield company, before disappearing as a distinct brand.
Steadfast was not the only firm to close its Sheffield works in recent years; other famous names included STANLEY, GEORGE BARNSLEY and SONS, GORDON TOOLS, SAMUEL OSBORN, RECORD RIDGWAY, RECORD MARPLES and FOOTPRINT. Some intrepid industrial archaeologists managed to photograph the works of some of these firms shortly after their closure:
STANLEY (Woodside Lane works, Pitsmoor)
www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=43934
www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=51694
www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=51129
www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=50899
FOOTPRINT (Admiral Works, Hollis Croft)
www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=44112
RECORD RIDGWAY (Parkway Works, Kettlebridge Road)
www.recordhandplanes.com/history.html
RECORD MARPLES
www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=43909
www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=51426&h...
www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=7943
GEORGE BARNSLEY and SONS
www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=52562&h...
SAMUEL OSBORN (Mushet Tool Works, Penistone Road, Neepsend)
I finished the workbench apron drawer by installing a brass mortise lock and fitting a handle made form old growth douglas fir.
Title / Titre :
Lumberman Joe Townsley uses a special axe to tear out a section of a tree to control the direction of the falling tree, Powell River, British Columbia /
Le bûcheron Joe Townsley se sert d’une hache spéciale pour couper une section d’arbre afin de diriger sa chute, à Powell River (Colombie-Britannique)
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Harry Rowed
Date(s) : April 1944 / avril 1944
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 3197261, 3627407
central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3197...
Location / Lieu : Powell River, British Columbia, Canada / Powell River, Colombie-Britanniqeu, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Harry Rowed. National Film Board. Still Photography Division. Library and Archives Canada, e000762070 /
Harry Rowed. Office national du film du Canada. Service de la photographie. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, e000762070
I built a couple of these rolling storage cabinets 20 years ago to hold small handtools. I used plans from a 1947 book from England on "equipping a wood shop"
This is the third shop they've been in.
Blacksmith quenching the hot tip of an old style nail he is making during a demonstration at The Bradford Industrial Museum.
The goal was to do a project that did not involve my iMac (I guess until right now..): build a chair! This is a traditional Chinese / Japanese design, or as at least as close as I could get by studying the one I already have, and consulting with a colleague who made one many years ago in China (thanks Zhong-Min!). Fig. 1 is the final result (plus Veronica the cat) and Fig. 2 is my inital concept (argh more iMac). This was my first woodworking project. I used scrap pine boards, which felt like less pressure. I'll try nice hardwoods next time.
I had three rules:
1. No power tools.
2. No nails or glue.
3. No sandpaper or paint.
The idea behind Rule #1 was to spend some 'quality time' with the wood, using only hand tools, many of them Japanese. This meant spending _much_ quality time learning how to sharpen the blades! But boy did they end up sharp...
The idea behind Rule #2 was to learn how to make mortise and tenon joints. I ended up making twelve pegged, blind (i.e. 'stub' or 'stopped') tenon joints. The trick here was that every joint was at a 97 degree angle. This required some iMac-sketching and head-scratching (Fig. 3). For the 8 rail joints, I angled the mortise, and for the 4 leg-seat joints I angled the tenon, in both the x and y directions (Fig. 4). In doing the latter I screwed up some angles, and hence had to violate Rule #2. A sort of chain reaction of bad angles necessitated a reworking of all 12 joints, so that they no longer fit perfectly and required some wood glue. Luckily, making the 1/8" hardwood pegs was satisfying and successful!
Rule #3 was intended to leave the wood surface feeling 'like wood'. I read a great furniture artisan book from the SF Library (can't remember the title) that advocated the use of a scraper to take off thin, single shavings from the surface, leaving a superior finish to sandpaper, which creates hundreds of miniature cuts. Pretty neat. A combination of blue and green stains ended up quite vivid.
Slow work...but all in all very enjoyable!
The tools (Fig. 5)...Japanese and Western mortise gauges. Gimlets for hand-drilling holes. Japanese saw, chisel, and mortise chisel. Drawknife for shaping the curved seat. Arkansas stone and Japanese water stone for sharpening. Scraper. Mallet. Combination square. Old plane that didn't work so great. Band clamp.
Tool sources and info:
Alameda Antique Faire
Japan Woodworker (Alameda)
Hida Tool (Berkeley)
Cliff's Variety (San Francisco)
Books and Bookshelves [stains and inspiration] (San Francisco)
Robert Larson Hand Tools (San Francisco)
"Japanese Woodworking Tools" by Toshio Odate
"Hand Tools" and "Planes and Chisels" from the "Fine Woodworking on..." Series
"Woodworking" by Jackson, Day, and Jennings
"HOME BUILDING AND WOODWORKING IN COLONIAL AMERICA" by C KEITH WILBUR
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2011_08_18 : Hand Tools
I chose art supplies!
part of the daily pattern project
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It still has the original blade! the quality of steel is amazing, used as a scrub plane for rough work.
The School begins classes once each year, early in October. Students are divided into sections of 12 students each, and get two hours of classroom instruction and six hours of shop instruction per day, Monday through Friday 8am - 5pm.
Basic Boatbuilding is the focus of the first semester, which runs from early October to late December.
The instructors assume that most, if not all, students have no woodworking skills and proceed from that assumption. The skills taught in the first semester are those essential to boatbuilding, and the course, for that reason, is very "hands-on".
Students learn to sharpen and use all their tools, and participate in a wide range of individual skill-building exercises, from learning to make the joints commonly used in boatbuilding to a series of tools. These exercises culminate when each student builds a dovetailed shoulder box, or tool box, like this one.
Students then learn to draft and make a half-model. Working in pairs, they learn to loft a boat full-size on the floor. Finally, working together as a team, the semester ends in December as students work together to build a flat-bottomed skiff.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school.
Our mission is to teach and preserve the skills and crafts of fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts.
You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948
it turns out that it is rather useful to have multiple braces. I've unintentially acquired 4 of these, but it's nice to not have to change bigs.
File name: 10_03_001860a
Binder label: Home Furnishings
Title: Using Mamma's Christmas present. (front)
Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 16 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Women; Girls; Infants; Hand tools
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
My tool tote, made from bookmatched spruce, douglas fir (for the handle) and scandavian redwood pine for the long sides, the two wedged dowels are made from hard maple, all made with real joinery with handtools.
Strumentu is a one of the best Cordless tool Store .Cordless tools operate on rechargeable batteries.
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The goal was to do a project that did not involve my iMac (I guess until right now..): build a chair! This is a traditional Chinese / Japanese design, or as at least as close as I could get by studying the one I already have, and consulting with a colleague who made one many years ago in China (thanks Zhong-Min!). Fig. 1 is the final result (plus Veronica the cat) and Fig. 2 is my inital concept (argh more iMac). This was my first woodworking project. I used scrap pine boards, which felt like less pressure. I'll try nice hardwoods next time.
I had three rules:
1. No power tools.
2. No nails or glue.
3. No sandpaper or paint.
The idea behind Rule #1 was to spend some 'quality time' with the wood, using only hand tools, many of them Japanese. This meant spending _much_ quality time learning how to sharpen the blades! But boy did they end up sharp...
The idea behind Rule #2 was to learn how to make mortise and tenon joints. I ended up making twelve pegged, blind (i.e. 'stub' or 'stopped') tenon joints. The trick here was that every joint was at a 97 degree angle. This required some iMac-sketching and head-scratching (Fig. 3). For the 8 rail joints, I angled the mortise, and for the 4 leg-seat joints I angled the tenon, in both the x and y directions (Fig. 4). In doing the latter I screwed up some angles, and hence had to violate Rule #2. A sort of chain reaction of bad angles necessitated a reworking of all 12 joints, so that they no longer fit perfectly and required some wood glue. Luckily, making the 1/8" hardwood pegs was satisfying and successful!
Rule #3 was intended to leave the wood surface feeling 'like wood'. I read a great furniture artisan book from the SF Library (can't remember the title) that advocated the use of a scraper to take off thin, single shavings from the surface, leaving a superior finish to sandpaper, which creates hundreds of miniature cuts. Pretty neat. A combination of blue and green stains ended up quite vivid.
Slow work...but all in all very enjoyable!
The tools (Fig. 5)...Japanese and Western mortise gauges. Gimlets for hand-drilling holes. Japanese saw, chisel, and mortise chisel. Drawknife for shaping the curved seat. Arkansas stone and Japanese water stone for sharpening. Scraper. Mallet. Combination square. Old plane that didn't work so great. Band clamp.
Tool sources and info:
Alameda Antique Faire
Japan Woodworker (Alameda)
Hida Tool (Berkeley)
Cliff's Variety (San Francisco)
Books and Bookshelves [stains and inspiration] (San Francisco)
Robert Larson Hand Tools (San Francisco)
"Japanese Woodworking Tools" by Toshio Odate
"Hand Tools" and "Planes and Chisels" from the "Fine Woodworking on..." Series
"Woodworking" by Jackson, Day, and Jennings
"HOME BUILDING AND WOODWORKING IN COLONIAL AMERICA" by C KEITH WILBUR
File name: 10_03_001982a
Binder label: Tobacco / Cigarettes
Title: Copenhagen Snuff. [front]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 14 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Men; Dogs; Hand tools; Snuff
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Weyman & Bro.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.