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30th November 2020, 01:41 AM #1
Irresistible marking tools
I admit it. I am a sucker for marking tools. I have a couple of Chris Vesper sliding bevels and squares that make me smile ever occasion I use them.
I have bronze Tite-Mark and stainless steel Veritas wheel gauges, both works of art, and even made one of my own ...
A mortice gauge I built (it uses sized cutters) ...
It was inspired by the Kinshiro cutting gauge (on the right), a gift from Wiley. Very precious ...
There are many more. This post is not about them, but a fore taste of the tool I have just purchased. It is on its way, so I cannot tell you what it is like to use. It is on a Black Friday special at present, so if there are any like-minded fools here, this is a heads up.
I was watching this video by Adam Savage ...
Adam Savage's Favorite Tools: Awesome Circle Drawing Tools! - YouTube
The question is who needs a fancy compass? Well, I will certainly use it.
But I could just sit an look at it - some tools are art, and one really should appreciate the effort that went into both design and build ...
The Iris drawing compass (by Makers Cabinet) ...
Makers Cabinet
Regards from Perth
DerekVisit www.inthewoodshop.com for tutorials on constructing handtools, handtool reviews, and my trials and tribulations with furniture builds.
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30th November 2020, 08:00 AM #2
It's ok Derek, your affliction is so common I think it would rate as being well within two standard deviations from the 'Norm' (pun intended). The human desire for a bit of art in our lives goes a very long way back!
I don't know if it's the earliest woodworking tool known that is made from precious materials and crafted to a level that is way beyond the needs of function, but the Roman era ivory plane found in Yorkshire would have to be a contender. I suspect the desire for blinged tools goes back a lot further than that though, all the way to dressed-up stone axes and decorated spears.
Being of a practical nature with a 'dour Scots' heritage I used to try & justify my own liking for less ordinary tools, telling myself that decorations were indicators of superior quality of materials & extra care in manufacture, but I'm old enough & secure enough now to admit I just like "nice tools" even if they are no more functional than their drab equivalents.
I think there are many of us, in sheds scattered across the land, who quietly gloat over a treasured tool or two we've acquired along the way......
Cheers,IW
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30th November 2020, 01:10 PM #3
Derek
That is indeed a beautiful bit of gear. I am tempted to add it to the list I plan to leave lying around the house to be easily found by SWMBO to chance upon. However, as it already extends into tens of thousands of dollars, none of which is ever remotely likely to happen I might have to give it a miss. (She just saw the gauge and commented on how beautiful it was, how one spec of dust would probably cause it to seize and consequently why it would be useless for me.)
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Uh oh. Did I spy another product that could inspire anybody with small pieces of brass left over?
MC_Iris_Hovel-4_800x.jpg
The pencil sharpener for the draughtsman who has everything.
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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30th November 2020, 06:45 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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There has to be good reasons I shouldn't buy one but the best I can think of if it is brass I would have to polish it and I swore off that after I got out of the army. On the other hand it might not need polishing........
CHRIS
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And they are working on a nice folding rule.....although having some difficulty getting them straight off the CNC. Needing to try annealing the brass first to remove tension. Hopefully they get something working, as a nice brass folding rule would be better than my slightly bent boxwood job....
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1st December 2020, 05:18 PM #6
Oh man, I hate threads like this.
For reasons.....
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1st December 2020, 08:05 PM #7
I reckon you're really going to hate this link then: Sterling Tool Works – Fine Tools That Inspire!
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Stop it! All of you!!
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Patrick Leach has a couple of Bridge City items this month:
MS143 New old stock Bridge City Tool scratch awl, the 5" length
SA-1, never out of its box; mid-1990's production, ready to
use or collect; cocobolo head; top right:
http://www.supertool.com/forsale/dec/t101.jpg $80.00
MS178 Bridge City Tool TB-2 7" sliding bevel; never used, with
all original packaging, it's the earliest production with
cocobolo stuffing;
http://www.supertool.com/forsale/dec/t129.jpg $95.00
MS179 Bridge City Tool "squevel" in rosewood; never used, with
all original packing and certificate, it's tool #34; right:
http://www.supertool.com/forsale/dec/t129.jpg $145.00
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History. I have a few tools (dividers, 1/2" chisel, folding rule) which I know are from my grandfather's boat building shed (mid 1950's?)
I don't suppose that they are the best of the best but I am reminded of his woodworking skills every time I use one.
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