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Late eighteenth-century kitchen tools beside the cooking fire at Grand Portage National Monument, on Lake Superior in northern Minnesota. It was quite clear to us that the friendly lady overseeing the kitchen could explain and demonstrate every one of these.
For my wonderful husband - I ran out of time as I had originally planned on making him some tools too.. I told him he would be able to guess what his gift was after seeing his cake - any guesses? Chocolate cake with home made strawberry filling - I layered the strawberries between the ganache so the berries would not seep into the cake.
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All of them recovered from a house that hasn't been lived in for about 40 years
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).
Here's another light brush that I built recently that has green. The jar light in the background is a unique tool that I've yet to use. It's a glass milk jug filled with transparent colored stones and a fluorescent light bulb inside. The idea was to color and texture the light. Unfortunately, the whole assembly is ~ 3 lbs and requires an electrical outlet. Cool, but impractical so far.
A few extra shots below.
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I reworked this with Lightroom and was able to make it come up quite nicely. Shot in late 2006 at Wembley Arena, London, UK
I have expanded the pegboard storage system I inherited. It has taken a year, but I finally have most of my tools organized the way I want. The power tools still need a little organizational help.
Tools of the Trade. Metal is placed in pitch to hold it stable while it is formed with punches. In this case the metal is Sterling Silver.
Enxada na qual trabalhei duro alguns dias, removendo centenas de quilos de terra e folhas no sítio do Camping do Noel em Minas Gerais.
A hoe. A tool with which I have worked hard these days, removing some hundreds of kilos of earth and leaves on the farm of Camping do Noel located in the state of Minas Gerais.
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.
Photo by Gayle Laird
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Two orange sizer rings and pair of citrus clippers. (These sizers were used for valencia oranges. It was difficult to find a navel from our home tree small enough to fit through the larger sizer.) These old tools were used in the Orange County citrus industry.
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A new Menards store opened in my hometown, so my brother-in-law checked it out when I was home. It's a huge store, but the most shocking thing was this power tool display/demo. They actually had electric circular saws, reciprocating saws, jig saws, drills, hammers, screws, nails, 2x4's etc., right out for anyone to walk up and play with. We cut some chunks out of the 2x4s and screwed them together, but there didn't seem to be anything keeping us from cutting off our hands or slashing a passing customer. You don't usually see this sort of thing in America - people being given the opportunity to be responsible and careful.