Off Topic The Hand Tool thread

[Fmont]

Wowwwww, that's awesome.

 

[Meek1]

Wowwwww, that's awesome.

Think if we ask real nice we can get an infomercial that includes the words slices and dices?

 

[Meek1]

 

[Meek1]

Think if we ask real nice we can get an infomercial that includes the words slices and dices?

I'm serious. Not about the slices and dices. I want to see this beast in action! It is impressive!!!

 

[tiguy7]

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Unusual, alternating teeth pattern is the reason it followed me home. It is 2 millimeter thick.
For the heck of it I just tried it on piece of dry branch: It eats wood like no tomorrow (It probably has never been used before).

I think that’s a frozen food knife. Here is Case’s version.

 

[crbnSteeladdict]

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I think that’s a frozen food knife. Here is Case’s version.

You are absolutely right. There is bunch of Frozen food knife patents from 1950ies
This tooth pattern looks very familiar to us.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vtg-henckels-zwilling-solingen-1872134886

https://patents.google.com/patent/US2799930A/en

 

[Square_peg]

....but I'm having a hard time getting my head around what the utility is of a bench mounted drill.

I keep an old rubber abrasive polishing wheel in the chuck of mine.

Mine has 3 speeds. The slotted tracks allow it to move in front of either of the 3 sheaves.

Sometimes it's nice to have a grinder without a motor in the way.

 

[Yankee Josh]

I put a "new" handle in my T.H. Witherby chisel last evening. I attempted to also put one in a craftsman as well but that didn't turn out as planned. Neither did the Witherby for that matter. Didn't seat it as far as I hoped but I doubt it'll ever come loose it's in there so hard. First time I've ever handled a chisel.

And the craftsman with its handle.

As you can see one will work the other one not so much! It just snapped right off as o attempted to drive it home.

It's definitely a high quality chisel. Took a nice keen edge! I feel this belonged here even though I technically did "hang it today". Have a great night fellow tool hounds!

 

[phantomknives]

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I think that’s a frozen food knife. Here is Case’s version.

that's literally a small peg and raker saw

 

[Agent_H]

that's literally a small peg and raker saw

Maple branches to cheese cakes- they both shudder at the sight of that!

 

[A17]

Yankee Josh , why'd you leave the mushrooming on on the chisels? I tend to file/grind/cutoff the mushrooming on mine before hanging them so I'm curious why you didn't.

 

[Miller '72]

I keep an old rubber abrasive polishing wheel in the chuck of mine.

Mine has 3 speeds. The slotted tracks allow it to move in front of either of the 3 sheaves.

Sometimes it's nice to have a grinder without a motor in the way.

I really like your set up.
I am looking now for an older 1725rpm motor to mount a similar set up, wire wheel and polisher...i do not at the moment have a beautiful 3 spd pulley to join the team when ready. That is gold!

I do have a great old motor i could use (1950's) but that will break it away from the whetstone i have. Though the stone itself is past its prime.

Great concept with the chuck to quick interchange and extend. And your adjustable track mounting...well thought out. Thanks for sharing that picture

 

[Miller '72]

Thats right...now i I remeber why i came to this thread....before i got captivated and distracted by someones grinder pulley setup lol!

I found this litte fella the other day...love it.

 

[Square_peg]

Today I made a mock up for an upcoming project. It's a tenon & mortise joint for a knee brace. I'll be building a new patio roof in a couple weeks and I wanted to practice this before I risked damaging good lumber. This went pretty well but this old crap lumber I had laying around gave me some trouble because it's not square or dimensionally correct.

Here's the tenon. It's a piece of old weathered poplar. It carves pretty nice but the piece isn't square.

I started the mortise pocket in a scrap of 4x12 Doug Fir. I hogged out a bunch of material with a 1-1/4" spade bit and a cordless drill. I'm not being a slave to hand tools on this project. I go back and forth between hand and power tools based on what I feel like doing.

Some nice mortising chisels and a small slick. The crude little mallet is made from a piece of London Plane, chosen for its toughness. I have a bunch of fast & dirty mallets/mauls around.

Here the mortise pocket is taking shape. The lines drawn across the pocket labeled 45 & 90 were to help me place my drill. The double line in the middle had 90° and 45° bore holes starting right next to each other and immediately crossing each other. I drilled tiny pilot holes for each that I could follow after my spade bit bore for the first hole wiped out my layout for the second. I used my DeWalt cordless leaf blower to clean out the pocket as I worked. That worked great!

Here's the finished mortise pocket.

Next I'm making some pegs for my joints. I'm using some black locust that I've air dried for 3 years. Black locust is a great choice for pegs because it's hard, gritty (grippy) and highly rot resistant. It was the preferred peg material for colonial timber framers. I have an 8" long piece of a 7-1/2" round. I'm slabbing it with a froe. The maul on the stump is an piece of Doug Fir. It's not a very good maul. I carved it green 5 years ago for a single use project. But it hasn't died yet so I still use it.

I split the slab into peg blanks. I got a dozen blanks out of this round. I need 8 for my project plus one for this mock up.

I roughed out the peg with a Pexto drawknife. I use my drawknife bevel side down, super sharp and pull it skewed to slice rather than split. I've found I'm best able to manage grain changes this way. I finished the peg by draw filing with the smooth side of a farriers rasp. This cleaned them up real fast. Later I bought material at the hardware store to make a peg jig. I'll see how that goes. I may come back to this method.

One last shot of my mock up.

 

[ithinkverydeeply]

Today I made a mock up for an upcoming project. It's a tenon & mortise joint for a knee brace. I'll be building a new patio roof in a couple weeks and I wanted to practice this before I risked damaging good lumber. This went pretty well but this old crap lumber I had laying around gave me some trouble because it's not square or dimensionally correct.

Here's the tenon. It's a piece of old weathered poplar. It carves pretty nice but the piece isn't square.

I started the mortise pocket in a scrap of 4x12 Doug Fir. I hogged out a bunch of material with a 1-1/4" spade bit and a cordless drill. I'm not being a slave to hand tools on this project. I go back and forth between hand and power tools based on what I feel like doing.

Some nice mortising chisels and a small slick. The crude little mallet is made from a piece of London Plane, chosen for its toughness. I have a bunch of fast & dirty mallets/mauls around.

Here the mortise pocket is taking shape. The lines drawn across the pocket labeled 45 & 90 were to help me place my drill. The double line in the middle had 90° and 45° bore holes starting right next to each other and immediately crossing each other. I drilled tiny pilot holes for each that I could follow after my spade bit bore for the first hole wiped out my layout for the second. I used my DeWalt cordless leaf blower to clean out the pocket as I worked. That worked great!

Here's the finished mortise pocket.

Next I'm making some pegs for my joints. I'm using some black locust that I've air dried for 3 years. Black locust is a great choice for pegs because it's hard, gritty (grippy) and highly rot resistant. It was the preferred peg material for colonial timber framers. I have an 8" long piece of a 7-1/2" round. I'm slabbing it with a froe. The maul on the stump is an piece of Doug Fir. It's not a very good maul. I carved it green 5 years ago for a single use project. But it hasn't died yet so I still use it.

I split the slab into peg blanks. I got a dozen blanks out of this round. I need 8 for my project plus one for this mock up.

I roughed out the peg with a Pexto drawknife. I use my drawknife bevel side down, super sharp and pull it skewed to slice rather than split. I've found I'm best able to manage grain changes this way. I finished the peg by draw filing with the smooth side of a farriers rasp. This cleaned them up real fast. Later I bought material at the hardware store to make a peg jig. I'll see how that goes. I may come back to this method.

One last shot of my mock up.

I love it man! Thanks for the comprehensive write up. The post vise and draw knife, I salute you!

 

[Meek1]

 

[Miller '72]

Both great, and whats the weight stamp on the C/R mallet? Chicago Rawhide. Excellent mallets

 

[Meek1]

Both great, and whats the weight stamp on the C/R mallet? Chicago Rawhide. Excellent mallets

C/R 4

 

[Miller '72]

C/R 4

I like my No2
But a few larger would be nice too

 

[Meek1]

Ha, I had no idea they were different weights. I just know this one is much cleaner than the one I had prior to today.