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  0 Thread: Odd-Jobs question
Post: RE: Odd-Jobs question
Never owned one, never had a strong desire; my impression has been that it's either a "gent's tool," that is, something useful for someone who's pretending to do stuff; or a tool for someone who doesn...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 12 3,024 07-07-2023, 02:49 PM
  0 Thread: Contour Gauge
Post: RE: Contour Gauge
I've got one of the bunches of wires in a frame profile gauges, and like it.  Look at the General Tools #837 (here (https://generaltools.com/angle-izer-contour-gauge-profile-gauge-shape-duplicator-sta...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 3 1,093 06-18-2023, 05:25 PM
  0 Thread: Ordered a hand plane
Post: RE: Ordered a hand plane
stav Wrote: (05-03-2023, 08:40 AM) -- ...small to the point of being a little uncomfortable... -- I've never seen or held a No. 1, and only briefly owned a No. 2, but I do own a Stanley No. 10-1/2 ...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 8 2,135 05-06-2023, 01:44 PM
  0 Thread: Old Tools haul, my first in a long while
Post: RE: Old Tools haul, my first in a long while
My first reaction when I saw that saw was that it was a meat saw - but, looking at the blade attachments, it's clearly a hacksaw.  Cool find.  Lots of cool finds, actually. Wing dividers, like your...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 1 987 04-03-2023, 11:47 AM
  0 Thread: Veritas version of the Record 043
Post: RE: Veritas version of the Record 043
Interesting that they chose to use Allen/hex-head screws for the fence settings.  Maybe it was a matter of space, or maybe they anticipate that folks using this tool will leave it in the same setting ...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 12 4,040 03-25-2023, 12:20 PM
  0 Thread: Hand chopped Stopped Dado
Post: RE: Hand chopped Stopped Dado
Where appearance matters not, some folks will cut a through dado and then glue in a little block to turn it into a stopped dado.  Seems like a lot of extra work.
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 4 1,251 03-23-2023, 02:02 PM
  0 Thread: Disston Saw ID
Post: RE: Disston Saw ID
Bill Holt Wrote: (03-08-2023, 11:29 AM) -- I want to soften the edges on the handle and put on a new finish, is that a bad idea? -- Probably a late model saw - 1950s or later.  Earlier saws had bra...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 5 1,854 03-08-2023, 12:51 PM
  0 Thread: I've never seen a plane like this...
Post: RE: I've never seen a plane like this...
Nine months after a drunken date between a cabinet scraper and a jack plane, a new tool found its way into the world... There's nothing wrong in principle with the design, although I would have to ...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 8 2,488 12-18-2022, 08:29 PM
  0 Thread: Spokeshave Blade
Post: RE: Spokeshave Blade
Are there still folks making reproductions?  Might be a source.
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 4 1,358 11-28-2022, 01:10 PM
  0 Thread: LV seconds sale
Post: RE: LV seconds sale
camp10 Wrote: (10-26-2022, 10:10 PM) -- 'Store pickup item only'. -- So the question, I guess, is whether you're closer to Calgary or Reno...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 14 4,067 10-29-2022, 12:08 PM
  0 Thread: 7 for a dollar
Post: RE: 7 for a dollar
stav Wrote: (09-19-2022, 12:31 PM) -- Never heard the term "turnscrew" as an actual thing. -- British terminology, and most often applied to that style of screwdriver.
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 2 1,090 09-20-2022, 03:18 PM
  0 Thread: handle jig?
Post: RE: handle jig?
When I did this on our kitchen cabinets, I made a fence to register to the edges of the doors/drawer faces.  Yours is simpler.
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 6 1,949 09-20-2022, 03:16 PM
  0 Thread: Banjo Man
Post: RE: Banjo Man
You can still get six-string banjos; people generally tune them like a guitar. Or you can get a tenor banjo and tune it like the top four strings of a guitar or like an octave mandolin (like mando,...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 6 1,878 09-17-2022, 03:48 PM
  0 Thread: Pretty sure that Field of Dreams farmer used an Atkins saw
Post: RE: Pretty sure that Field of Dreams farmer used a...
Would you use decent tools like the saw, brace, and perhaps plane (can't tell from the photo exactly what the plane is, other than a block plane), and then check level on a project that size with a pl...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 8 2,370 08-16-2022, 02:43 PM
  0 Thread: Drawknife - whats a good brand?
Post: RE: Drawknife - whats a good brand?
Greenlee, too. But there are plenty of other good vintage brands out there.
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 7 7,962 08-15-2022, 10:56 AM
  0 Thread: Can never have too many clamps
Post: RE: Can never have too many clamps
Well, you can have too many clamps when you run out of room in the shop... But those are nice finds indeed.
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 4 1,982 07-31-2022, 04:59 PM
  0 Thread: Stanley No. 100 miter jig
Post: Stanley No. 100 miter jig
I picked up a Stanley No. 100 miter jig today (picture is from interweb, but mine looks like it) I own a Millers-Falls Langdon Acme miter box (in my opinion, one of the finest tools for fine crossc...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 9 3,097 07-29-2022, 06:07 PM
  0 Thread: My some what new K8C
Post: RE: My some what new K8C
I never knew grog was adjustable.  I always assumed that you drank it as it came to you.
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 9 2,740 07-13-2022, 03:52 PM
  0 Thread: Woodpeckers sharpening guide
Post: RE: Woodpeckers sharpening guide
Though, to be fair: if your goal is a straight-across bevel, the design might be a good one.  Lee Valley's Mk II honing guide has a pretty wide wheel, but Lee Valley also recognized the need for cambe...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 6 2,764 07-12-2022, 03:57 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench Top Material
Post: RE: Workbench Top Material
Hard to resurface.  On t'other hand, my workbench, made from a scavenged (painted!) commercial solid-core door, is still pretty darned flat over 30 years after I installed it.  Ugly as day-old sin, an...
 Bill_Houghton Woodworking Hand Tools 23 5,335 07-12-2022, 10:38 AM

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