A great example of old tools is a hand drill and a two-handed saw. My always used them and every time I had to repair something, I had to sweat a lot!
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A great example of old tools is a hand drill and a two-handed saw. My always used them and every time I had to repair something, I had to sweat a lot!
Latest Ebay purchase:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/W7kAA...um/s-l1600.jpg
I fanced something a bit longer for jointing long boards (currently building some shelves in inch thick oak). Long metal planes are well over £100 for anything that's not a pile of rust. Picked this up for £30.
It's in great condition; the mouth and horn of the handle have been repaired at some point, with a decent match on the wood. Blade has plenty of meat and came in good condition without nicks or weird camber.
I gave it a couple of licks on a piece of whitewood and managed a pretty much spot on straight edge with minimal effort.
thats very nice.
I've been using my old Stanley plane a lot recently and not just for planing.
Dunno if people know but the cast steel has a perfect 90 degree edge, so I use it for aligning saw blades.
Indeed - The usual trick is using the plane to lay one board face atop another's edge, to align everything for marking out dovetails. Not sure I'd want a saw blade rubbing along the side of my plane, though... might damage it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
I make furniture in the woods from old school hand tools, my favourite tool has to be the pencil sharpener as I call it (chair makers rounding tool)
This is the first chair I made.
https://i.imgur.com/wVB5p6U.jpg
I then moved on to a much bigger project and this is what materialised.
https://i.imgur.com/BlwWH31.jpg
Incidentally I ended up with a cheap Scheppach bandsaw and I'm actually very happy with it. Yes it can only do a 100mm depth of cut so it's a bit limited for resawing but it covers the majority of my uses.