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Viking tool box - daddo - 12-03-2016
They found one.
Wonder what they will think of ours 1,000 years from now?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/reviews/g1024/whats-inside-a-viking-tool-chest/?slide=2
RE: Viking tool box - Bill_Houghton - 12-03-2016
They'll think we had too many tools.
RE: Viking tool box - hbmcc - 12-05-2016
If I remember correctly, you will need some grumpy fellow sea salt toss it overboard some night. Or, was that the gun that ended up in a military latrine?
RE: Viking tool box - identity_crisis - 12-06-2016
Someone on this board did an awesome build along a few years ago of the mastermyr chest
RE: Viking tool box - AHill - 12-06-2016
I found the tool chest more "modern" than I would have thought. The inclusion of files was surprising, but files have been around for quite some time. The Viking civilization lasted quite some time as well. There's a danger in comparing carpenter's tool chests to cabinetmaker's tool chests. A carpenter typically carried fewer tools than a cabinetmaker. The Viking tool chest was more likely for a carpenter. It's kind of like barn finds on tool chests. Most farmers and/or ranchers had only a small set of tools to do the job locally. Maybe 2 or 3 planes, 4 or 5 chisels, 2 or 3 saws, etc. As tools became mass-produced, they became cheaper and thus you'll find more tools in the tool box as the industrial age hit. After power tools became popular, the trend reversed.
RE: Viking tool box - Stwood_ - 12-07-2016
(12-03-2016, 04:44 PM)daddo Wrote: They found one.
Wonder what they will think of ours 1,000 years from now?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/reviews/g1024/whats-inside-a-viking-tool-chest/?slide=2
Thanks for the link.
RE: Viking tool box - C. in Indy - 09-16-2018
I took a fancy to those Viking chests. I recently started one, but a poor memory and some constraints of my wood-pile made my joinery styles come out different. I also had a bag of wrought nails that I decided to start using... I'm definitely pre-drilling holes for them.
Surfaces and edges are mostly planed and shoot-ed by now, and I'm planning an appropriate use of the nice old cherry board for a lid.
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Chris
RE: Viking tool box - Stwood_ - 09-16-2018
(09-16-2018, 01:13 PM)C. in Indy Wrote: I took a fancy to those Viking chests. I recently started one, but a poor memory and some constraints of my wood-pile made my joinery styles come out different. I also had a bag of wrought nails that I decided to start using... I'm definitely pre-drilling holes for them.
Surfaces and edges are mostly planed and shoot-ed by now, and I'm planning an appropriate use of the nice old cherry board for a lid.
Chris
Have you sold your workbench, or are you just laying down (carpet) on the job?
RE: Viking tool box - bandit571 - 09-16-2018
Seem to remember Underhill having done an episode on The Woodwright's Shop about a Viking Tool Chest..
RE: Viking tool box - C. in Indy - 09-17-2018
(09-16-2018, 04:35 PM)Stwood_ Wrote: Have you sold your workbench, or are you just laying down (carpet) on the job?
Ha Ha! Yeah, I get a lot of comments about a carpeted shop....
The basement carpet was there when we got the house, and it has enough smashed-bug-stains and plumbing-mishap stains that it no longer matters if I get it dirty. It's a great cushion if I drop a tool accidentally!
Sometimes if I'm block-planing vertically, there is nothing like a floor to stop the workpiece from moving.