Thread: Handmade tools

Are they all your own work? It's an impressive layout either way!

Looks like they are wired or tied down - is the panel going to be a display, or is it a table top? :confused:

Cheers,
Andrew
P.S. the gallery worked fine for me

Andy the photos from that site of yours wont up load because they are above 100k in size.

Some Neat tools there
Again the same Q'? are thay all made by you or you faimly ?? The table looks just to be a display. Most the tools I can identify, but the item on the far right with the different holes sizes in it and a tool just to the right of the marking guage and left of the angle guage.

Yeah, they're all made by me in about a year, and all functional (some more so than others!) The table and 2 chairs...one you just make out to the right, a carver from silky oak and cotoneaster.... I made using only these tools, and you're right it was displayed in a gallery (or 3). For that reason each tool is wired down and all sharp edges were covered with beeswax to protect inquisitive fingers. The table top is Damar pine, a bit like Kauri.
The tools you asked about: the silver ash block with holes is a simple gauge drilled with the various diameter spade bits and augers, so I can quickly size the round tenons when at the shaving horse. I tried making a couple of tenon rounders on the right end of the table, to accurately size the tenons, but they had a tendency to tear the grain, maybe an angle-of-attack problem; the strange shaped adzey looking thing is my "bull" scraper. The hooked handle, again silver ash, is really good for a two-handed haul on paint and glue before exposing plane blades to recycled timber. The blade of the scraper is a piece of a Chevie leaf spring with a square mortice filed through it! A definite lip is ground onto the edge. I saw the original for this tool in a pattern-maker's kit for sale in an antique shop, crazy $$$, so I went home and made one, especially for taking glue off a floor, after pulling up lino.
I hope it inspires some woodies out there!

Beautiful tools, and a beautiful presentation. The rustic table with outriggers is an inspired design.

For me, this is a definite greeny-worthy display

PS Wouldn't let me: IOU 1 x