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11th January 2014, 05:41 PM #1
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A restorer's laboratory (featuring some very cool hand tools)
(please excuse my terrible phone photography)
Some pics of my FIL's workshop. He's a restorer of Australian Colonial furniture.
I just love having a play in here when I visit each year.
Here's the workbench that most of the 'raising of the dead' takes place.
The bench planes are mostly Bedrocks.
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Approaching the molding plane cabinet. You can see the limbs of the dead stacked in the rafters awaiting re-attachment.
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A close-up.
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Some saws, some of the hundreds of chisels, and more planes.
Note the hide glue pot sitting on the upturned iron. In the winter it sits on a pot belly stove. Always ready for action.
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Some stones and carvers.
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Shellac is the finish (embalming oil) of choice around here.
Do you know how many years it takes for a shellac pot to look like this?
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A user made router plane.
He has a couple of wooden granny's tooth planes, but this is his go to router. Great adjustment and feels comfortable in the hand.
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A beautiful Spiers smoother. This plane works so well. For highly figured boards, he uses a toothing plane and finishes with this.
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A lovely unmarked panel plane. It has a Marples iron.
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Cover your eyes if you're a true neander.
There are couple of power tools that are vital for restoring (he does use a pedestal drill).
The big old band saw. Wartime model with the grey finish. I'm not sure of the actual cutting size.
Converted into single phase by the addition of another motor.
Also, the custom lathe. (you might notice a rifle between the lathe tools and the axes just in case he sees a rabbit out the window
(true story))
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This is how I want my workshop to look like in my semi-retirement years.
Not pretty, but it's all result driven. He knows where everything is at all times.
I love this space.
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12th January 2014, 03:07 AM #2
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Nice tools. He has obviously been at this for a while.
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12th January 2014, 03:27 AM #3
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Love it all ... but you have to make him a Roubo bench with Benchcrafted wheel-vice
I like the carving mallet ... and the handle of the large infill. Any idea what woods they are?
Thanks for sharing,
Paul
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12th January 2014, 10:21 AM #4
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Hi Paul,
Originally Posted by pmcgee
Love it all ... but you have to make him a Roubo bench with Benchcrafted wheel-vice
I like the carving mallet ... and the handle of the large infill. Any idea what woods they are?
Thanks for sharing,
Paul
He's just about got the patina on the bench to where he likes it. It's very solid and wide. I don't think he'd want anything else.
The carving mallet is Red Gum. He made me one with the same pattern. I love it.
I'm guessing that the infill is Mahogany. It's English (or Scottish), and the timber has the look and colour of Mahogany. It certainly doesn't look like Rosewood. The small infill smoother is Rosewood.
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12th January 2014, 02:54 PM #5
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No. I don't think he needs anything else. Originally Posted by Thumbthumper
He's just about got the patina on the bench to where he likes it. It's very solid and wide. I don't think he'd want anything else.
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12th January 2014, 03:53 PM #6
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Nice workshop pictures , I just noticed the mud brick work shop walls as well , extra nice now
It looks to me like the panel plane is a unmarked Spiers , screw sided which is how he started putting them together before rivets and with the early smaller screw on the lever cap.
Rob
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12th January 2014, 04:22 PM #7
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The workshop and the homestead are mud brick. Made onsite. Originally Posted by auscab
Nice workshop pictures , I just noticed the mud brick work shop walls as well , extra nice now
It looks to me like the panel plane is a unmarked Spiers , screw sided which is how he started putting them together before rivets and with the early smaller screw on the lever cap.
Rob
He tested the viability by building the workshop first.
Could be a Spiers. I have seen similar that were said to be Spiers.
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12th January 2014, 05:06 PM #8
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I just love workshop tours. I find it intriguing just how different people come up with a different way to do stuff. When you were courting was the sight of the workshop an incentive to marry the girl
I was in a hydraulic repair place last week. I needed an "O" ring to fix a leak. The guy picked up my damaged ring and went to a "cupboard" with household doors fitted to slides with his selection of "O" rings displayed there in front of him on both sides of the doors hanging on nails. The system was so simple and exrtremely ingeneous.Just do it!
Kind regards Rod
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12th January 2014, 08:30 PM #9
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Thanks TT this is how as a vry young boy would see old blokes worshops both at their home and/or commercial workshops. This has more appeal than a bright shiny clean modern one which gets used very seldom. It tells a story worth hearing more than once.
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13th January 2014, 07:36 AM #10
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Looks like a 'proper' shed.
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13th January 2014, 07:56 AM #11
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Far better than Aladdin's cave, and it's real!
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13th January 2014, 09:29 AM #12
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That's a great story and I think a lot of experience behind that work shop.
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13th January 2014, 10:12 AM #13
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electric iron
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Good idea - Upsidedown electric iron in the vice to warm the glue pot.
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14th January 2014, 09:00 PM #14
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That's the sort of space where one would immediately feel at home.
Love the lathe. Those timbers are terrific.!!
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14th January 2014, 09:23 PM #15
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Cemented into the floor Originally Posted by artme
That's the sort of space where one would immediately feel at home.
Love the lathe. Those timbers are terrific.!!
8 foot bed.
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