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Thread: Show off your hand made tools.
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22nd January 2013, 08:59 AM #1
Show off your hand made tools.
Please post a photo of your handmade or DIY tools.
(and a link back to any original thread if there is one)
It's show & tell time!
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22nd January 2013, 03:40 PM #2
You started so after you sir!
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22nd January 2013, 05:36 PM #3
Only tools I have made, I made at tech some 20yrs ago, I started because I'm looking for inspiration!
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22nd January 2013, 06:33 PM #4
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22nd January 2013, 10:41 PM #5Senior Member
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What you say & what people hear are not always the same thing.
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22nd January 2013, 10:47 PM #6
made these in the first yrar of my apprenticeship 42 years ago
2012 04 27_Soldering Iron_0358_resized.jpg2012 04 25_0357 resized.jpgTwo things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I´m not so sure about the universe.
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22nd January 2013, 10:53 PM #7
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22nd January 2013, 11:26 PM #8
When I was making my ukulele, I needed a rosette cutter for the soundboard.
I made this one:
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You can see the full process of making it here:
The Village Woodworker: Building a Ukulele - Part 3 - Making A Rosette Cutter For Soundboards
Cheers
SG.... some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them ........................D.H. Lawrence
https://thevillagewoodworker.blogspot.com/
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22nd January 2013, 11:45 PM #9.
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With apologies to those who have seen these before.
Should be a few amongst this lot - for links look in my forum blog
2006 effort
2007
2008
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23rd January 2013, 02:01 PM #10
Well I am a bit behind that last showing but here is some of my efforts.
Marking guage.
measuring and setout tools - Page 3
First go at a saw. Teeth were a problem but on its next sharpen Ill get it better. Still cuts well.
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f152/ugly-sin-but-126615/
Lngworth chuck.https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/lon...uck-mk1-60883/.
Some idle time in the shed.https://www.woodworkforums.com/f44/ve...eekend-112988/.
Regards
John
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31st January 2013, 11:15 PM #11The fact remains, that 97% of all statistics are made up, yet 87% of the population think they are real.
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31st January 2013, 11:32 PM #12SENIOR MEMBER
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Hey folks, I know I'm a newbie round these parts, Sorry I haven't met any of you personally yet! but I have a question for BobL
Where do you find the time?
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1st February 2013, 12:43 AM #13.
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No time really - I made most of those tools when I was in charge of 65 academics and researchers at a university science department, chair of an Australian University course Accreditation Panel and President of an international Chemistry Committee. During one of those years I was on a plane on average once every 4 weeks. It was not a question of finding the time but making the time, I guess I could have gone to therapy instead but that would probably have been more expensive although perhaps work would have paid for it. I was blocking out whole weekends to get these projects done and got very testy if a planned weekend was impinged on by other events.
I'd like to think I was very efficient at making these tool but I am not really that efficient although I did a fair bit of planning for most of these tools before starting on these - ie rolling the ideas around while walking the dog or at the endless meetings I had to attend at work. My alternative at meetings was to doze off and I found designing tools help me stay far more alert about what was going on at meetings than I otherwise would have.'
The other thing is we don't go out very much (I have done way more travel than I ever felt the need for), and I watch very little TV. We bought a video projector a few years ago for us to watch movies and a bit of sport. I have watched 1/2 a movie and a couple of AFL and snippets of some cricket matches. About the only thing I watched more than an hour of is some nights of the tour de France. SWMBO watches TV and movies on the projector but now she watches them on her iPad. SWMBO has a horse which means she is away for long stints meaning I'm on my own with the dog (now dogs).
Funny thing is I am 4 weeks away from retirement but am decidedly relaxed about getting started on the zillions of other projects rolling around in my head and on SWMBO's todo list for me.
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Thank-you for sharing that with me Bob, I certainly appreciate it.
you certainly have a way with words.
I am looking forward to seeing what you do with your time in retirement. Best of luck with that too!
My SWMBO just got a clydieX, seems I need to get her shoed (the horse) and send her on her way(the swmbo),
No on second thoughts that would leave ME with the 4 kids, might have to sell the horse before she gets wise
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1st February 2013, 01:28 AM #15.
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I did most of my parenting in my teens and 20's with 4 much younger brothers, mum was running the show, and a Dad who was unavailable due to illness. Perhaps my reaction to that was to only have one child, who left home about 10 years ago and by luck or good management has stayed away and is now happily married although is not afraid to ask for and I am happy to help with DIY tasks. So it really has been me and shed and the dog, and for a while no dog, then back to one dog, and as of last week now two border collie dogs!
The bigger dog is 15 months old and is a real softie but when she was the "only child" she needed lots of attention and getting bored quickly she would come into the shed and hand me an item, to hide or tug or play with. She stayed in the shed or I closed her out of the shed and then she would search for the hidden item. This would go on all day if I let it. I couldn't leave her in the shed because she liked to take on the lawnmower, chainsaw, compressor, welding and grinding sparks etc. Now we also have the 9 week old pup which is a surprisingly calm but also very confident fluff ball and she already has the bigger one fully sorted. Our plan has sort of worked because pup seems to keep the older one fully occupied - well at least when she is free because pup is still spending some in a crate separated from the other.
Hopefully they will be my exercise regime and shed buddies for the next few years.
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