Tuesday, 16th September 2008

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OXO Barware, designed by Eleven

Eleven's latest line of OXO Bar tools photographed by Christopher Harting.

P1010941

Vintage 8½" pliers mfd. by F.E. Lindström AB, Sweden.

The company was acquired by Bahco.

Lindström and Bahco are now part of Snap-on Inc., Kenosha, WI., U.S.A.

Detail: www.flickr.com/photos/100761653@N07/16820453946/in/photol...

several of my toolboxes posed for me

I've got the demons within

I've got to brush them all away

I feel the demon's rage

I must clean them all away

Yeah, yeah...

Excite to scream them away

Cobwebs in the way

That magic cleaner oh

Shine his smile on me

Yeah, yeah...

I am the demon

Cleaner who saves the day

I get the backwall

And important they'll always stay

Yeah, yeah...

If only one thing that you know

Imposters from the show

They'll try to trick you into

Normal treatment

Oh don't you listen to them say

Shush them all away

I am the demon cleaner

Madman so

I am the freedom cleaner

Standing naked here to say

I'm the only way...

The D 3 golf divot tools. Rare earth magnetic ball marker in stainless steel. Automatic mechanism.

Probably the most exclusive divot tools in the world.

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Photographer: David Zeck

Glass shaping tools at TGS in Tacoma, Washington

At this month's Open MAKE: Tools event, visitors were invited to explore their own creativity with our four Featured Makers from around the Bay Area, who shared their art, ingenuity, and techniques.

Guests made needle-felted creatures with Moxie, created three-dimensional shapes by sewing sheets of fabric together with Judy Castro, fused plastic with clothes irons, used sewing needles and conductive thread to make circuits embedded in bracelets and badges, and used motors and other tools to take Light Painting to a whole new level.

tinkering.exploratorium.edu/

Photo by Gayle Laird

© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu

These are some of my favorite tools for creativity!

Julie Cast, LMFT, ATR, Camarillo, California/USA

P1010466

Klingen nicht durchgehend, Hefte rotlackiert.

VANADIUM-EXTRA

№ 9700 125 x 4,5 mm

№ 9705 150 x 6 mm

Catalog 1961

the original inspiration piece

Haldex trailer ECU software

At this month's Open MAKE: Tools event, visitors were invited to explore their own creativity with our four Featured Makers from around the Bay Area, who shared their art, ingenuity, and techniques.

Guests made needle-felted creatures with Moxie, created three-dimensional shapes by sewing sheets of fabric together with Judy Castro, fused plastic with clothes irons, used sewing needles and conductive thread to make circuits embedded in bracelets and badges, and used motors and other tools to take Light Painting to a whole new level.

tinkering.exploratorium.edu/

Photo by Gayle Laird

© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu

Mmm. Iron.

P1020172

The datecode 9 doesn't match with any 9 on the date charts. Maybe it's 1969, maybe it's not a datecode at all.

See:

www.collectingsnapon.com/index.php?page=Data_Chart/Date%2...

beprepared.com/12-Tools-You-Need-for-Survival

Taken at Thak Ironworks in Flordale, Ontario. Works of modern blacksmithing, medieval armour and sculpture.

This is one of my recent measurement tool repair projects. I've got this piece from eBay in partially functioning condition. I was unable to find the actual manufacturing date, but the latest date of a patent listed on a package goes back to 1935. This makes me believe that it was made by still existing B.C. Ames Co. sometime right before the Second World War. It has 0.0001″ resolution and 5-0-5 large (⌀ 3.5″ or 89mm) bidirectional dial. Both graduation and text were not screen-printed but written (probably, using a pantograph copying tool).

This tool is now perfectly functional and quite accurate even after almost 90 years.

To bring it back to life, I had to:

- disassemble it and clean some moving parts,

- realign hand shaft to make it perpendicular to the face plane,

- restore black oxide finish on a hand tip,

- size, fit and replace the dome (I used a glass from some old alarm clock rather than a celluloid dome that has been used originally because I didn't find a good replacement).

Rotary wire brush

A few years ago we inherited a box of ancient woodworking tools. They had been handed down through various family members but had originally been owned by my wife's uncle who died in the 1960s. I found this little wood plane still in its original case with a set of instructions.

Tools: Contax T3, Kodak Ultramax 400. Process and scan by Exposure Film Lab.

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Tools on the wall. Car museum in Marxzell near Karlsruhe.

From the Airbus Training department

At this month's Open MAKE: Tools event, visitors were invited to explore their own creativity with our four Featured Makers from around the Bay Area, who shared their art, ingenuity, and techniques.

Guests made needle-felted creatures with Moxie, created three-dimensional shapes by sewing sheets of fabric together with Judy Castro, fused plastic with clothes irons, used sewing needles and conductive thread to make circuits embedded in bracelets and badges, and used motors and other tools to take Light Painting to a whole new level.

tinkering.exploratorium.edu/

Photo by Gayle Laird

© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu

Milwaukee Tools Truck, 9/2014 by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube

Heavy weight denim tool belt with velcro loop, elastic hammer loop, and pouch. Hammer, screwdriver, wrench, and saw made from vintage & thrifted denim and corduroy.

Extra sealing on these as they were for a hairdresser who is like to have them in water a lot of the time

52 week project

with Zuiko Digital 35mm F3.5 Macro

Here's a series of freewheel diagrams printed with the instructions for the Bike Nashbar Sprocket Tool in 1982 - a pair of chain whips. Pac Man going strong on the label.

A nice, almost complete, Heyco tool set I picked up on eBay for very little cash. Two of the spanners are not original but I have ordered the correct ones. Still looking to replace the non original screwdriver and the missing wire brush.