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Don't Drool on These, You'll Spoil Them (post #147951)

wotnow on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 07:44

Hand Tools

Just spent a week in town and had occasion to visit the Primary School handyman. Took these photos of a very small number of his tools that are still being used.

I'm taking the necessary papers in next week so that he can adopt me.

wot

I started out with nothing...and I still have most of it left!

Cool! Image #10 is (post #147951, reply #1 of 7)

by forestgirl in reply to wotnow [original] on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 08:16

Cool! Image #10 is interesting (upsidedown T-thing with washer on string). Is it a level or does it have a less obvious use?

forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)

Hi FG It certainly is and (post #147951, reply #2 of 7)

by wotnow in reply to forestgirl [original] on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 09:09

Hi FG

It certainly is and it's the first time (in almost 60 years of woodworking) that I have seen the likes. Very ingenious.

regards

wot

I started out with nothing...and I still have most of it left!

I vote for level. But I've (post #147951, reply #4 of 7)

by flairwoodworks in reply to forestgirl [original] on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 12:13

I vote for level. But I've never seen one like this before - usually they're shaped like an "A"

Chris @ www.flairwoodworks.com
and http://flairwoodworks.wordpress.com

- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

Wot. Coo, what a load of (post #147951, reply #3 of 7)

by Lataxe in reply to wotnow [original] on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 11:22

Wot.

Coo, what a load of ole junk.

(Just kiddin'). :-)

Now, I have been using a depth-limited saw for a while now, as it is a very handy thang to, well, cut limited kerfs of a known depth with. The only saw I've seen made for the job in those online tool emporiums I go to drool in is a Japanese one, which unfortunately limits the minimum depth to an insufficient degree for my purposes; and also has them delicate teef, which my teak, iroko and oak treat badly.

So, I have to stick a wee wood baton on the saw blade of this or that saw, using double-sided tape, to get the desired depth control. I am cack-hand so this is not always too accurate. Also, the bluddy d-s tape can be a swine to get orf again.

So, I am hoping Michael Wenzloff esq spies that saw you pickshered and immediately rushes out to his shop in order to copy it. He will then send me the first one for extensive testing, for which I will make no charge (I am the generous one).

Lataxe, a gubbins-fool.

Lataxe Lots of lovely old (post #147951, reply #5 of 7)

by wotnow in reply to Lataxe [original] on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 14:17

Lataxe

Lots of lovely old junk carefully thrown into some of the old farm workshops down here. I found a couple of perfect wooden bench vise screws gathering dust and mould in an old shearing shed. Love to get the contract to clear out all these old sheds.

I empathise with your depth limiting kerf cut problem. Rather than DS tape why doncha try inserting some of those super-duper magnets guarenteed to pull iron-ore from a depth of 200' of old mother erf, into your wee wood baton. I guess you will need to invest in some of those 'jaws of life thingys' to adjust the depth when required.

We all know of the 'Lataxe, the generous one' whose generosity is exceeded only by his wit and good looks.

wot

I started out with nothing...and I still have most of it left!

Yep, the upside-down T with a (post #147951, reply #6 of 7)

by RalphBarker in reply to wotnow [original] on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 09:47

Yep, the upside-down T with a string is a level. We used something similar when I was consulting on the pyramids. Of course, we didn't have steel washers for the plumb bob part, but a stone did just as well. ;-)

Wot, can you let me see the (post #147951, reply #7 of 7)

by philip in reply to wotnow [original] on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 21:27

Wot, can you let me see the other side of that, er, double end SHIFTING SPANNER?

Let me start a fire: in the U.S it is mistakenly thought that the shifting spanner, aka as the Crescent wrench, was invented there. In fact it was only patented there but invented by B.A .Hjorth of Sweden-later to become Bahco....

Philip Marcou