Tools for tool making addiction
Tools for tool making
Some of us here have been dipping our toes or fingers in to tool making of late.
Some may consider this playing with devil in the devils garden.
I know that once you go down that rabbit hole ,it a whole new world of mad hatters.
But ,I personally find it very satisfying past time,I’m just that much of a weirdo , that I have no intentions of giving up playing with the mad hatter in the devils garden, I’m addicted 110 % and have no desire to spend time in TMA(Tool makers anonymous) groups eating Tim tams.
In fact ,I want to take myself further down the rabbit hole.
In doing so ,I will require, no wait, need ,yep definitely need on this one more tools.
It’s funny that in order to make tools I’m looking at more ready made tools.
So ,after all that useless dribbling, I would like to know from the tool making brains group, what are your favourite tool making tools and why, pics would help too?
Or links?
I unfortunately and this will sound pathetic, I haven’t got any pics due to being away from my creative zone at present for the next 10 days or so [emoji849].
But ,I do have a pic of new saw that is slowly pulling it self out of the depths of my poor time management skill
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Ok well just a very ruffed in handle,
But anyway to get the fire ball rolling down the valley of holes ,some of my cannot do with out them tools gear.
First up is my Hercus lathe from my father in law ,yep I know but how else does one take ruff bits off round metal and make them into small bits of round metal.(saw bolts nuts extra.
Next up ,would be my ever growing collection of files round,square bastard ,rat tales ,three square you just have to love the names.
Plus one on my favourite would be a body mans file.
Then there’s the smashing group, or the minuplaters,hammers.Another growing group.
One of my favourite pieces is piece of 90/35 pine yep just bog stock boring pine, about 400 mm in length that is perfect for placing in the vice and attaching saw backs to be filed and sanded and polished.
Two grinders find there home in my creative zone one is normal speed one is a slow speed likes it owner.
And oxy torch has recently been added and was very much liked during winter, but also comes in handy for making metal yeld to my ever increasing mayhem, but is also good at beating metal for bending and welding it[emoji849].
A small but on the hunt for more punches very useful things them.lots of different types.
A drill press,disk sander.osiclating bobbing sander the last definitely couldn’t do with out.
A few rasps including a couple of Japanese ones which are fantastic at turning wood into saw dust especially if your not careful.
My cheap bow sander which is a strip of cloth backed sand paper 300 mm long 25 mm wide measurements not really critical or important,
The paper is held between both hands and I use it to fair round edges on totes and saw handles extra.
And find it fantastic for upper body wearing out.
Then there is the vices I have,no Mr Bushmillar
not those private vices.
There’s a face vice a stand alone on its own stand bench vice with small anvil, and a machinist crappy vice from a country that does better rice take away dishes than makes tools (personal groan).
Another how did I do with out this,and was a suggestion from years back by the king of tool making Mr Ian W.
A head band magnifier when sharpening small saws it’s brilliant.
One other is my Snap On hacksaw one of the best hacksaws I’ve ever owned.
I’ve possibly missed heaps but am keen to know what others use or can’t do with out.
Mine sound very metal orientated by there is plenty of wood working tools in there too but there mostly just the stuff we all have.
Cheers Matt.
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