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I have for sale 15 Mackay Cedar boards. They range in length from 1.2 to 2.3m with most being around 1.8m and width from 12cm - 30cm with most around 20cm. All are 30mm thick.

These...

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This saw was given to me recently by a collegue who knows I like my tools. He had had it sitting around for ages doing nothing.

The blade was cleaned up with 180 - 400 wet and dry. ...

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It's been a while since I posted a bowl (mainly beeen doing flatwork of late) but this is one I finished recently. The blank is the one on the left in the first pic and came curtesy of ...

I'll take them please MM. PM to follow.

Hi Dazm

One of our forumites, Derek Cohen, has an excellent website with lots of shop made tools and jigs, including a number of shooting boards. This one in particular has the donkey ear shown. ...

There's also the Cooroora Woodworkers based in Cooroy. My dad was a member for 20 years until he passed away last year. Nice bunch of folks.

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A relative on my sons school friends said that they had a silky oak sitting in their back yard and the timber was mine if I wanted it.

Went and had a look today. The trunk was still...

It maybe wishful thinking but when the light hits the blade at certain angles it does look as if there might be part of an etch under the crud. But then again I've thought that before with other...

Hello my name is Wood Hacker and I'm a sawoholic :C

I have found that I just can't go past a second hand / junk shop without going in and looking to see if they have any old tools, and in...

Here's a couple of pics of the whole saw. The handle is quite nice and is very comfortable with the exception of a slight bulge in the back of the grip that doesn't sit quite right in my hand. I...

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Another week done and another visit to my favorite second hand shop has resulted in another saw following me home. This one is a 26 inch 6ppi rip saw.

Does anyone recognise this...

Thanks Rob and Ian that has done the trick. Had to be careful with one in particular as the handle has a crack in the clip but a combination of the file and a bit of judiciously applied force got it...

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I'm doing up a couple of old Slack Sellars back saws. They have a bit of rust on the blades and backs that I want to get off but I'm having a hard time removing the handles. The saw bolts...

Good call Paul. I cleaned it up a little and yep it is a "K" not an "X". My bad:C

You could be right Paul. I'm away at the moment but will have a closer look when I get home tomorrow

Thanks Planemaker. Searching on that name gets more info. Seems they started in the late 1700's and made a variety of tools in particular pliers. There is also a company here in Oz still selling...

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Bought a saw this aftenoon. It had this Henry Boxer medallion on it. A google search can't find any information other than Remscheid is in Germany.

Has anyone heard of this saw...

A "shed load" of clamps?

There are two different Ford Blues. One light, one dark. As you say it looks like the wrong cap was put back on your can. It's most annoying when they don't put the colour code on the can itself...

I recently did up a record 41/2 for my brother in law and like you wanted to repaint it. I ended up using the Duplicolour Auto Touch up spray (purchased from SCA) in the 150g aerosol. This is an...

I don't have any expectation of it being a show pony but hopefully it will clean up enough to be usable.



The last pic (the one with the broken handle) was a Diston I found in the same shop a...

I have a second hand store not far from me that I drop in on every few weeks to have a browse. I don't always find a bargin but its a better than 50/50 strike rate.

Previously I've found a nice...

I've bought from Watts Wood and Mouldings at Salisbury in the past and found them very easy to deal with.

To keep some sense of symetry I'd rip the smaller board in half and use it either side of the wider board.

I have one of the Cohen style ones similar to your original Luke. I saw Ian's one of this improved model a couple of weeks ago and it immediately got put onto my (very long) list of projects.
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:2tsup:Nice score.

After a bit more clean up and re-examination of the teeth, this saw has actually been filed in a cross cut configuration rather than rip as I first thought. Ian this lends more weight to your...

I'm leaning toward making one at the moment. Not sure if I'm going to copy the existing or not. I quite like the open handles but will have to mull that one over for a while.

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I was poking through a second hand store today and found this little beauty. It has a fair bit of rust on the plate, but a quick go with WD40 and W&D shows that it is not too bad...

Had another go at it tonight and I just don't think I'm going to find any significant portion of the etch. :no:

The only other dating info I can find is on the medallion. It has the Patent 1887...

Just gave it a quick run over with 240 W&D. There does appear to be something there but unfortunately there is also some minor pitting right through the area where I would expect the etch to be. ...

Thanks for that research Paul.

I've found one other reference where the saw had the Lawenceburg etch and the Cincinatti medallion. Their thoughts were that it was produced during the transition...

This one will be a user for me once it's done up. I'm not partically precious, so for the time being I'll see how it goes with the moissing tooth. If it affecting performance then I'll put the...

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The kids school had a car boot sale today and I found this little number. Its a GH Bishop 26 inch 6 ppi rip saw. Overall it's in pretty good shape with some surface rust but no pitting...

Like you I tend to give mine away as gifts. Currently working on a series of bowls where the timber came from a 140 year old Bunya Pine that blew over in the local school during a storm. All the...

Let me know if you need any more details pics to show the engineer.

cheers
WH

Hi PWH

Not sure of the relative ages of our two lathes or if something is missing from your one but mine has a slightly different arrangement on the outboard end. As you can see from the pic mine...

Try Watt's Wood and Moldings at Salisbury.

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Came across this little number in a Bric-a-brac shop while on holidays recently and gave it a new home. It looks to be a copy of the early Stanley #78's and is missing the depth stop. A...

+1 for Watt's. I recently bought some Rosewood from them. Friendly helpful service and a nice lump of timber to boot.

Given your location and the repeated "Hard Wood" it wouldn't be Jonhstone River Hardwood by any chance?

I had a go at cleaning this saw up over the weekend. Came up alright. The worst of the rust came off the balde, though there are sections that aren't perfect. Unfortuantely the Disston logo...

Thanks Luke. If nothing else it will give me something to practice sharpening on without the worry of stuffing up a good saw.

Thanks for that. I'm not a collector either, all my tools are users. I just like to know the background of my tools, and if collectable I leave them as is, if they are not collectables then I don't...

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Up until recently I have been a power tool wood worker. I have been drifting more towards hand tools of late, and picking up old tools where I can and doing them up. I recently picked up...

I got hold of some Bunya Pine after the big storm back in November last year. Green turned most of it as bowls. Some minor cracking in the knots as it is drying but they are still solid in the...

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Yep definately a brown undie moment. Did the workpiece survive unscathed?