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Thread: Show us...the tools you've made
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30th May 2011, 12:25 PM #16
Certainly some inspiration there!
A collection of tools I've made, mostly from recycled material.
Cheers,Andy Mac
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30th May 2011, 03:21 PM #17SENIOR MEMBER
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Andy Mac, another great lot of inspiration. What's that you have them laid out on?
Also, are those dowel shavers at the far left? I've been meaning to make one to fit the ferrules onto some tool handles, do they work well?
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30th May 2011, 03:33 PM #18Andy Mac
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30th May 2011, 03:40 PM #19
Nice thread, thanks Andrew.
Makes me wish I'd made something more than a dodgey marking-knife out of a spade-bit.
Andy Mac; can you tell us how that plane-blade adze worked out?We don't know how lucky we are......
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31st May 2011, 09:34 PM #20
I'm coming in late on this thread, but it's interesting that most have shown hand tools. What about the most important tool in the shed - the bench?
So here's mine, along with some of the necessary ccoutrements like saw vises & a dovetail vise (a recently-completed, but much overdue item!) pic 1.
My tool-making career has been very long, and the start was very slow. I guess I started with small tools using leftovers & bits of old files & hacksaw blades, for things like marking knives & various awls. As my skills & equipment improved, so did these simple tools: (pic 2).
Pic 3: Here are some very simple, but very handy tools - scratch stocks. These incredibly-functional tools can be elaborate like my Lee Valley look-alike, or just an L-shaped bit of wood & a couple of bolts & wing-nuts, which work just as well. The simplest of all is in the centre - a screw driven into a block of wood & sharpened a bit to give the desired profile. This simple gadget can cut a groove or bead in a very short time, & go where no router can....
Pic 4: The saying goes, "you can never have enough clamps" - well you can try & solve that problem by making your own.
Pic 5. Hard to resist brasss & nice bits of wood, & it's probably equally true that you can never have too many marking aguges (until you try to figure out where to store them. )
More to follow:IW
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31st May 2011, 09:40 PM #21
And a few more:
So then I got a bit more ambitious & made some more setting-out tools, like this 12" square (based on the fulcrum & adjustor screws a la Colen Clenton style) and a small bevel. (pic 1)
Pic 2: Planes are relatively straightforward gadgets - a few specialty planes including a shoulder plane, a dovetail plane, a small high-angle smoother & a double-radiused plane for cleaning up chair bottoms & suchlike.
Pic3: Last in my toolmaking career has beed brass-backed saws. These are fun, but the most challenging tools I've made so far. After a LOT of mucking about, I've made some saws that are truly nice to use...
Making tools is not only a way to save $$s, it's far & away the best way to figure out what is essential in a tool....
Cheers,IW
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1st June 2011, 07:58 AM #22SENIOR MEMBER
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Wow Ian - thank you for sharing, some beautiful work there. I'm just up to the very start myself of that process myself - I have some broken hacksaw blades sitting ready to be turned to marking knives and I'm working on my first plane. Hoping that some day many years in the future I'll get up to the quality that you and the others have shown.
Question for those who have posted - what drove you to make tools? Was it the lack of something in the shop, was it because you couldn't afford or thought the version on the market was overprice, or was it the challenge?. Or even if you just liked the idea of using something you built for a specific purpose.
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1st June 2011, 09:19 AM #23
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1st June 2011, 09:54 AM #24Been here a while
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Love the clamps Ian!
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I only just saw this and there sure is some nice stuff on show.
The easiest way for me to show some of my stuff is in these composite pics.
2006 - most of the tools in this pic use WA redgum from my firewood pile
2007 - here you can see I have become quite distracted by milling activities.
2008 - still quite distracted by milling but manage to make a couple of tool sets
I have more but that will do.
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1st June 2011, 10:21 AM #26Junior Senior Member
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Hi IanW
I like the wooden clamps. Would u mind posting another pic of them to make it easier for me to rip off ur idea?
Ta
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1st June 2011, 11:47 AM #27
Hi John,
take a look at this old thread, in which I elaborate a bit on both bar clamps & handscrews.
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f44/threading-wood-8513/
If you have any specific questions I will be happy to try to answer them, but better start a new thread so we don't hijack this one.......
Cheers,IW
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1st June 2011, 03:04 PM #28
As for what gets you making tools. I think it is the same urge as drives us to woodwork. You want something you have created that is fit for its function and hopefully looks good too. It is not a big step from fixing up old tools either.
Regards
John
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1st June 2011, 08:14 PM #29SENIOR MEMBER
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BobL - I'm sure glad you saved that stuff from the firewood pile, very nice work!
I'm eagerly looking forward to the weekend so I can start on some more tools after seeing these - I'm thinking a brass and maple square is next, I don't like the $3 cheapy I've been using very much!
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1st June 2011, 10:00 PM #30
Ian and Bob ... great work.
Here are a few more ..
Another brace:
Chamfer plane:
Joinery saw:
Stairsaw:
Knives and block:
Coopered box with letter knife:
Coffin smoother:
30" jointer:
Dovetail plane:
Moxon dovetail vise:Visit www.inthewoodshop.com for tutorials on constructing handtools, handtool reviews, and my trials and tribulations with furniture builds.
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