What did you do in your shop today?

What I worked on this past weekend.

Cleaned up/rehabed/sharpened some planes. A couple were already in use and just needed a sharpening, but nearly all got some level of rehab as they were still in as-found condition. Couple of them even got some fresh paint.

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This hatchet head has been in my possession and without a handle for far too long - at least a decade. Finally made a new handle for it today. Once the BLO is dry on the handle, I'll sharpen it and make an edge protector from some leather scraps.

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What wood did you use for the handle Matt?
 
ripjack13 said:
What wood did you use for the handle Matt?
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Went digging through the cutoff shelves and the first thing I found that fit my size requirements and had grain that would seem to flow well through a handle shape was a piece of cherry, so that's what it is. I'll be using it when we go camping next in a couple weeks. If it doesn't hold up or breaks, I'll make a new handle from something different. But the most action this will probably see is to split small pieces of wood for kindling while camping a few times a year, so I figure it should do just fine.
 
I have some Osage Orange, but I hate working with it. But if the cherry handle fails, that's probably what I'll use.
 
Osage is the top o the list!

Or. Send it to me. I need to make some handles too. :sarcastic:
 
Building a bed swing for the owner of the company I work for. The one pic is what he found that he liked. He told me I had a little bit of say in it as long as it looked close. So this is what I have so far. A42DF8DF-99F7-43F0-801C-F17D17187333.webp FED9297A-B75A-4597-80D8-10BAB6BC416D.webp D4D641EA-A040-4139-8E43-29C32164C5A2.webp EFA4523B-1D3C-4A89-9A9B-78E604A46539.webp
 
About 4 years ago I purchased this vise from someone here. It sat in my garage since then and gained some extra rust. Well, later this year I'm going to be building a new workbench for the basement workshop, so while I had the Evaporust out to work on the handplanes, I started working on this as well. Black engine enamel paint. Hand painted the lettering. Only thing I need to do at some point is make a new handle for it.

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Picked this up today - a nice little Craigslist find. Real neat to have the original box still, which is ultimately what sold me on buying it (and I needed a new sharpening stone). Wish I knew exactly how old it is though.

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Sprung said:
Picked this up today - a nice little Craigslist find. Real neat to have the original box still, which is ultimately what sold me on buying it (and I needed a new sharpening stone). Wish I knew exactly how old it is though.

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My guess is between 1954 and 65.

Can read the "Craftsman", "Sharpening Stone" and "High Quality". Can't read the words in the top of the oval.
 
Mr. Peet said:
My guess is between 1954 and 65.

Can read the "Craftsman", "Sharpening Stone" and "High Quality". Can't read the words in the top of the oval.
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Top line says "Guaranteed".

Out of curiosity, what is it that lends you to think that time frame? For additional information, it turned out that I knew the seller. This stone was originally purchased by his wife's grandfather (and he and his wife are retired). While it obviously dates from well after he was born, the first owner of this stone was born in 1888. Obviously he could have bought it when he was also well on in years too.
 
Sprung said:
Top line says "Guaranteed".

Out of curiosity, what is it that lends you to think that time frame? For additional information, it turned out that I knew the seller. This stone was originally purchased by his wife's grandfather (and he and his wife are retired). While it obviously dates from well after he was born, the first owner of this stone was born in 1888. Obviously he could have bought it when he was also well on in years too.
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It matched my Dads, and he was a cabinet man in the early 60's. His stuff was likely used, so 50's made sense too. Next I was looking at the print font and style. The colored cardboard stuff is more often after WW2 as before it often had fabric wrap or paper wrap.

I'm wiped, good night.
 
woodtickgreg said:
Very cool Colin.:cool::good2:
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It was bought for a specific job. Basically priced out the job so it pays for the machine in full then any use after that is gravy. Always nice to find a way to have your customers expand your equipment.
 
My parents' 40th anniversary was on Sunday. My sisters and I decided to have me build a frame to hold a print of a family picture we had done last year. Frame is curly maple. The placard with the info was from a piece of wood that came from a tree that used to grow in front of the house my parents have called home for nearly 35 years, and where we all grew up in. I really wanted to build the frame entirely from that wood, but just didn't have thick or long enough pieces. This at least let me include a little of this wood. Holds a 16x20 photo. Finished with clear shellac and then buffed out with Renaissance Wax and 0000 steel wool.

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