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As a bookkeeper this is a tool I use every day.
I did not have my DSLR with me at work, so my old iPhone 4 was the best camera I had. With the Nik Silver Effex Pro 2, I tried to make an artistic image of it. Hope you like it...
The Lumberjack is a bearded man
Who works the forest as long as he can,
With an axe and saw as tools with his brawn
He labors all day from dusk till dawn,
End of day he still stands tall
Employees everywhere he beats them all.
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Rural Ontario
CANADA
Dublin Bus KD339 (GSI339) Modelled here in an All Over Advert for Stanley Tools.
Based at Phibsboro Garage Bombardier 'KD339' wore this livery in 1991 which was designed by a UK Consultancy firm & also Won Best Over All Advert in that year. Modelled on Route 19A - Mc Kee Road.
KD339 also did a a Stint in Ringsend Garage while Sporting this livery.
Szék (Sic) is a sleepy village not far from Kolozsvár (Cluj) in Transylvania (Romania), where old houses are still standing with their traditional blue walls and thatch roofs.
An isolated community, the village managed to preserve its unique folk traditions, costumes and music through the centuries. Many of the older villagers still wear their traditional costume as they go about their everyday life.
....I got side-tracked again in my workshop. I refurbished the $3, 16" dovetail saw I picked up last month. The manufacturer (Pennsylvania Saw Corporation #79 - Warranted Superior) etching on the blade is too faint and cannot be read. Also, there was some rust pitting I couldn't remove. I soaked it overnight in vinegar to loosened most of the rust on all the metal parts. The handle just needed some sanding, and I sealed it with urethane. Still very sharp for it's age.....early 1900's.
* Canon EOS M50 camera
* Auto Sears MC 28mm f/2.8 (Komine) lens
* Fotasy FD/FL-EOSM lens adapter
This ball peen hammer has had the snot beat out of it, but, it is a beauty. It's well used, and full of character.
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As assortment of hand tools that once belonged to my grandfather back in my home state of New Hampshire. I was inspired to try this after seeing a similar photo using scissors in the January 2013 issue of Popular Photography.
Green Ridge Fire Company
Aston Twp, PA
Engine 63 is a 2010 Pierce Arrow XT Pumper. The engine is equipped with a 6 man cab, a 1500gpm single stage Hale pump and 750 gallons of water. Engine 63 carries your basic Engine Company equipment, hoses ranging from 1" booster line up to 5" supply line. Various adapters, appliances and handtools along with a thermal imaging camera and 4 gas detector. An AED and basic first aid bag. Engine 63 responds first due to structure fires in our local, vehicle fires, wires, gas leaks, hazardous materials incidents, trash and brush fires.
I wanted to make a lounge or garden chair for outside. And, I'm interested in simple constructions using readily available materials and handtools.
I found images and drawings of the Crate Chair.
The Crate chair was designed by Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld c1934. Early versions of the chair were made from recycled packing crate wood using standard timber dimensions, in this case 15 x 2cm stock of various lengths, and it's designed to be made by anyone. Anyone with simple skills and rudimentary tools.
The Crate Chair is similar in ethos to the Enzo Mari table I made some time ago.
I managed to cut all the elements from a cheap board from a local hardware store made of glued up timber 2m x 60 x 2 cm. I cut it into four planks of 14.6 cm, then cut the planks to the required lengths, mostly 45cm, before ripping some of them down to make the battens for the seat, back and arm rests. In the spirit of Rietveld's intention I ripped them in half for simplicity and to save material. I cut everything using a handsaw, planed the planks to something like the same widths and cut chamfers on the battens.
You can read an account of how I made a version of the crate chair
The assembly was helped enormously by the annotated drawings and construction tips of Jorn Ake
After I made the chair I noticed that a fairly standard and readily available cushion fits perfectly.
We inherited these tool bits from an uncle but we don't know what they do!
These small steel bits with very sharp points. They vary in length from 38-48mm.
The shanks are square and obviously fit into a handle (which sadly we don't have).
They are in two screw-top containers, one wood, the other metal.
We would appreciate any ideas on what they are for, in what activity they might have been used etc.
My contribution to "Hand tools" themed Flickr Friday.
There are so many interesting, beautiful places around us with such a different perspective that it attracts our attention and you can hear it saying: "Grab your colors & brushes and paint me."
This is definitely one of those plcaces.
Silničná, Czech republic.
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Breadboard End Chopping Board in Light and Dark Red Meranti with oak draw bore pins and mortise and tenon joinery, this should be around for a while. Design is by Paul Sellers.
When I was in grad school my friend Alan Sugar, who is a poet as well as a puppeteer, wrote a poem called "Our Lady of the Pie Plates"... or maybe it was "Madonna of the Pie Plates". It came to me handwritten as a gift with a framed copy of the photograph that had inspired it... a lovely and genteel "scarecrow" made from a delicate lace tablecloth and a straw hat. She held a bouquet of orange daylilies in one hand, and dangling from both extended arms were aluminum pie plates, assumedly to ward off any birds or other creatures with a mind to raid the garden she watched o'er.
If I recall correctly he'd written the poem as a birthday present, and I remember thinking that he was one of the few people at the time who really understood how much "pie plates & such" are at the core of my being.
I know the saying is "you are what you eat" but I've always thought in my case it's more "you are what you cook". Matt observed recently that whenever I walk into his house I head straight for the kitchen. I was about to protest, but quickly realized he's right. When I arrive there for the weekend, or in the middle of the week, I'm invariably carrying a bag full of groceries, or containers of soup, or something else that needs to be put away in the fridge or the pantry. And fairly often I've also stashed in my satchel some necessary utensil or ingredient; a rolling pin, a whisk, some smoked salt, a citrus zester, once my extra hand-held blender. I cook more and more at his house, so ever-so-slowly my arsenal of kitchen gadgets has been migrating from Somerville to Watertown. Not to worry that my kitchen at home is depleted... I have enough "implements de cuisine" to keep several cooks busy. If I ever decide to open a restaurant I'm all set.
As older family members- or the family of friends- die I'm usually the one who ends up claiming items from their kitchens. That's how I've gotten some of my best rolling pins (I have eight of them), potato mashers and ricers, strainers, piecrust crimpers, and wooden spoons. It's also how I come to have the original colored pyrex nesting mixing bowls, a clamp-on-the-table meat grinder (essential for making cranberry relish), and my heavy candy-apple red juice-o-matic.... all things that others are spending a fortune for reproductions of at emporiums like William Sonoma and Sur La Table. I believe I'm the only one in my circle of friends with nine cookie sheets. It's true I don't have a fancy Cuisinart or KitchenAide Mixer- though Matt got me a shiny new food processor for Christmas!!!- but I have my grandmother's Ipana hand mixer, my great grandmother's battered tin turkey roaster, a slew of butter molds, and the biggest buncha antique cookie cutters you've ever seen in the home of someone who uses them rather than collects 'em..
That's not to say I've never bought a gadget myself. When I saw a "soup tasting spoon" like my friend Alice's-there's a channel in the handle where you rock some soup back and forth until it's cool enough to test it for seasoning- I bought it quick. And I'm a sucker for small canape knives so I finally got myself a set. But more often than not they're gifts from friends who know me well. Last year my cooking buddy Dave got me a set of oblong tart pans that he knew I was lusting after, and for Christmas this year my housemate John brought tears to my eyes when he presented me with a beautiful and expensive wooden-handled long bent-metal spatula to replace my grandmother's which I'd been using for 30 years, and which had succumbed to metal fatigue. I'd been in mourning for months without it. The new one looks to be a perfect replacement.
I suppose most folks think it's silly, but that Mexican Hot Chocolate Stir is an old friend of mine. I have a hard time making mashed potatoes with anything but the half-moon masher I used when my grandfather taught me to mash 'em. And I'm still trying to figure out whose house I left that stainless steel slotted spoon at because nothing else feels right in my hand when I make three bean salad. You get the idea.
Oh, and even after years of leaving them half full at other people's houses, I still have 12 tins for making pies each fall. "Our Lady of the Pie Plates" indeed.
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Dublin Bus KD339 (GSI339) Modelled here in an All Over Advert for Stanley Tools.
Based at Phibsboro Garage Bombardier 'KD339' wore this livery in 1991 which was designed by a UK Consultancy firm & also Won Best Over All Advert in that year. Modelled on Route 19A - Mc Kee Road.
KD339 also did a a Stint in Ringsend Garage while Sporting this livery.