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I end up with lots of used exacto blades which I resharpen into all sorts of specialized shapes for carving etc. The one I use the most however, is this simple deburring tool. Each end is shaped for deburring a large or small hole (or tube). The "V" blade has two opposed cutting edges. This is a very simple and quick tool to make and it is remarkably efficient.
you know how people carry photos in their wallet of their kids that accordion out? well I did it with a photo album and photographed each drawer of the Snap on tool box that's taller than me
This is the tool Jim helped me make to produce the circles in the background of the encaustic wax in the previous image.
I heated the nails then used it to melt circles of circles in the black wax background.
Those were then filled with green wax which was later scraped back.
It was obvious thee tools were used for anything and everything which might arrive needing some work to be done.
Was very lucky to be able to spend some time with a pre-production prototype of the GT350R a few months back, chassis TT003.
New tool testing!! think it needs a bit of work!!. Didn't manage to get out till gone 10 tonight so was only able to get an hour down the beach!! But it was nice to spend a bit of time winding down before work. ha ha!!
(taken on one exposure, no additions after the exposure. I use aperture3 as a RAW converter and will adjust levels, saturation, white balance, brightness and some minor cropping if required.)
Tools and materials to make a necklace display, a T ruler, foam core, sand paper, marking pen, xacto knife, plastic tub lid, white glue.
An impromptu jig to hold a pusher boss in place when brazing it to the seat tube.
It's made from the handle of a broken faucet wrench & an offcut of ⅜" tubing from rackbuilding, with a steel plate sandwiched between them.
Bolted together, not brazed, because (a) the faucet wrench was aluminum, and (b) it's clamped to the BB shell, so I need to be able to shim to compensate for wider/unfaced BB shells.
But this way I don't have to play games with fitting a pusher to locate where the boss should go, then position the frame at an angle so the boss won't slide away when I'm shovelling heat so I can glue it to the seat tube.
Kwick-Gripper head from the back. I can't make that lever move at all, and it's not mentioned in the packaging nor on their site, nor in their videos. The tool is currently in a fixed position, so I can't open its "jaws" to actually use it as a nail-gripper.
You can see the unevenness of the surface of the head, the lack of smoothness in the lines, the places where the chrome is peeling. All I've done is take it out of the box and take photos of it.
I'm a fan of ratcheting drivers, and I have two. This one is nice because it comes with a large assortment of bits, which are kept in rubber sleeves that stow in the handle. There are actually six available bit sleeves, each with different bits: hex (Allen wrench heads), standard, sockets (with 1/4 inch adapter), and tamper-resistant Torx.
This set is worth getting just for the bits, really. Assembling furniture sets is way easier with this driver than with the enclosed Allen wrench, for instance, and in my line of work, tamper-resistant Torx screws turn up once in a while.
I have been collaborating recently with the multitalented, ethically conscious, conceptual artist Elana Langer who’s brand What I Live By or WILBy creates consciousness raising ethical sweatshops to educate us on our buying habits and a plethora of other interesting goodies that promote living a better life, embracing ourselves and treating the world better.
The project that we have been working on is about the Tools of Life, a concept inspired by her grandmother. Elana writes:
My grandmother was a real lady. I don’t remember a time when her hair and nails weren’t done and she wasn’t dressed impeccably. In the last year of her life she, like many others in her condition, lost the ability to walk without support. And although she had a strong will to live, the idea of using a walker in public seemed unbearable to her. The force of her vanity had come up against the limit of the body. Life compromised didn’t seem as worthwhile living.
My cousins and I were in her kitchen about to have lunch while I suggested going out to her favorite restaurant right across from her home. She refused. We all looked at the walker.
"We can bedazzle it!" I exclaimed. "We can make you the most beautiful walker in the whole city."
My cousins laughed. My grandmother didn’t. In fact this brought on the first and only fight I ever had with her.
"You are making fun." She stared at me coldly.
"True, I am trying to make this situation more fun. What’s the big deal with a walker? And think of how many other people are like you. We could make a whole business. This would make it something to be proud of like jewelry. We can make walkers for weddings, special occasions, one to match each outfit…you can be our model."
My grandmother didn’t laugh. She didn’t see the condition of necessity as something to be played with.
I never made the bedazzled walker for her and I never stopped thinking it was a good idea. We need to have fun within these places that cause social discomfort. To be able to embrace and play with our desire to adorn and enhance ourselves in both actual necessity (like a walker) and chosen necessity (like make-up, nails, hair, clothing…).
These items and pictures are the result of that. One tool of enhancement, like clothing or jewelry, doesn’t have to compromise another tool of enhancement like the ability to hear or walk with greater ease. Both are enriching our experiences in the world and both are admitting that we need and want help with the conditions that exist within us at any given moment. When used to enhance joy and enjoyment, these are all equally and differently tools of life and living well.
I loved my grandmother deeply and I miss her in this world and I hope these pictures would make her smile.
From top till bottom: Union , Ohio tool co., Stanley no.65 early model, Stanley no.65 sweethart model.
The Union one is an copy of a Mosher patent and the Ohio is an copy of the Stanley model which is a copy of the Leonard Bailey one.
Like I've mentioned in a few other posted photos from the shops at East Broad Top, the tools and machinery just go on and on. In one hand, boy it'd be awesome to own one of these museum-worthy pieces from the EBT, but on the other hand, I feel it'd be a sin to remove tools, machines, etc from this site. A number of seasoned veterans' hands have held these tools and used them for any number of things at the railroad shops. If walls could talk, these walls would speak volumes.
I have been collaborating recently with the multitalented, ethically conscious, conceptual artist Elana Langer who’s brand What I Live By or WILBy creates consciousness raising ethical sweatshops to educate us on our buying habits and a plethora of other interesting goodies that promote living a better life, embracing ourselves and treating the world better.
The project that we have been working on is about the Tools of Life, a concept inspired by her grandmother. Elana writes:
My grandmother was a real lady. I don’t remember a time when her hair and nails weren’t done and she wasn’t dressed impeccably. In the last year of her life she, like many others in her condition, lost the ability to walk without support. And although she had a strong will to live, the idea of using a walker in public seemed unbearable to her. The force of her vanity had come up against the limit of the body. Life compromised didn’t seem as worthwhile living.
My cousins and I were in her kitchen about to have lunch while I suggested going out to her favorite restaurant right across from her home. She refused. We all looked at the walker.
"We can bedazzle it!" I exclaimed. "We can make you the most beautiful walker in the whole city."
My cousins laughed. My grandmother didn’t. In fact this brought on the first and only fight I ever had with her.
"You are making fun." She stared at me coldly.
"True, I am trying to make this situation more fun. What’s the big deal with a walker? And think of how many other people are like you. We could make a whole business. This would make it something to be proud of like jewelry. We can make walkers for weddings, special occasions, one to match each outfit…you can be our model."
My grandmother didn’t laugh. She didn’t see the condition of necessity as something to be played with.
I never made the bedazzled walker for her and I never stopped thinking it was a good idea. We need to have fun within these places that cause social discomfort. To be able to embrace and play with our desire to adorn and enhance ourselves in both actual necessity (like a walker) and chosen necessity (like make-up, nails, hair, clothing…).
These items and pictures are the result of that. One tool of enhancement, like clothing or jewelry, doesn’t have to compromise another tool of enhancement like the ability to hear or walk with greater ease. Both are enriching our experiences in the world and both are admitting that we need and want help with the conditions that exist within us at any given moment. When used to enhance joy and enjoyment, these are all equally and differently tools of life and living well.
I loved my grandmother deeply and I miss her in this world and I hope these pictures would make her smile.