Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: scottg on May 07, 2014, 10:24:43 AM
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Well I will get pix of the messier parts and the less glamorous parts. But I had these pix in my files already so....
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/shopsw.gif)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/awning9a.jpg)
In the door looking left
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/bench1.jpg)
In the door looking right
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/benchvise.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/benchwindow.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse2.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse3.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/toolwall4.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/pegboard.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/pegboard3.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/metalbench.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/plierrack3.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/pegboard2.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/screwdrawers.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/drillbits3.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/metalbuffing.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/etch1a.jpg)
yours Scott
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All I can say Scott is "WOW"!
And I guess you really don't like wood? he-he
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scottg,
Nice digs. Nicer toolage. And great benches.
You included a photo of the end of a tool tote. Could you show the whole tote?
I have a couple of home made totes, but they aren't as artful as yours.
My wife has her grandfathers old saw tote. It's been ravaged by time and heavy usage, but it's still a beauty.
I've never seen any two totes that were build the same way. I guess it's highly individual.
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Looks like it`s all good at the camp!! Very nice Scott.
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scottg,
You included a photo of the end of a tool tote. Could you show the whole tote?
Lauver
The tote lifts out of the sawhorse/portable workbench/toolbox. This is the lightweight (relatively) one made for jobs away from home.
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse6.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse7.jpg)
There is exactly enough room inside for a plane, drill maybe, and some screwdrivers etc. The little lid bumps opens up for bit n screw storage.
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse4.jpg)
A like a sawhorse/workbench so much to use, I also built a much heavier duty model strictly for in-the-shop use.
This one has a full 10" bench vise on the front. An old Columbian.
Not sure why, but if you are going to find an old iron woodworking vise in this area, it will be a Columbian 99 times out of 100. I think they must have had a whizz-bang salesman working this district.
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorse1.jpg)
Oh, and one more, the Sawhorsie.........
I made this to toss up into the rafters, for doing construction work with a skillsaw.
This one uses a clamp and wooden pad for its vise.
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorsie.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/sawhorsie2.jpg)
yours Scott
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Looks like a workshop of an artesian/craftsman. Wonderful tool selection. Thanks for sharing.
Now we know where all those great projects come from.
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The tote lifts out of the sawhorse/portable workbench/toolbox. This is the lightweight (relatively) one made for jobs away from home.
yours Scott
Yeah... why am I not too surprised about that !
I have a humble garage, that is a shop !!
Thanks for sharing Scott !!
Brian
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i think i seen this photos somewhere b4 years back? nice!
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Now Scott has put us all to shame!
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Wait!!
you actually USE your tools??
nice shop indeed
Skip
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Wait!!
you actually USE your tools??
nice shop indeed
Skip
lol
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Droooooool.....droooool......
Outstandingly nice shop.
In the third inside-the-shop photo (where it appears to the right), and then again when you feature your metal lathe (where it appears to the left), there's a metal plane up on the shelf. Looks like some kind of combination plane, shiny silver with a wooden handle. What is that?
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scottg,
All your photo's disappeared. What gives?
EDIT: Never mind... they're all back now. Must have been a website hiccup.
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Looks like a workshop of an artesian/craftsman. Wonderful tool selection. Thanks for sharing.
Now we know where all those great projects come from.
"Ditto"
A Real Working Shop by a Pro... Impressed! & beautiful wood grain on your workbench!!! what kind is it?? (right side of 3rd photo, wood vice?)
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Great shop an as we know there's also some great work done in there. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks guys!
Bill, the plane is a Stanley 050 combination plane. I bought it when I was 20 something. Silvo hardware was closing them out. It plows well enough, but the other 15 molding blades it came with are basically useless beyond a few mm deep. A design flaw.
Hardly any were made and sold at all. A failure as a tool.
It came with a hysterical orange plastic finger grooved tote. The winner of some modern college design contest Stanley had. I didn't like it. So what you see was one of my first carved totes.
I should have kept the box it came in, heh.
Lets see, my bench is part old chemistry lab work table, part black oak and some madrone too. There is a second layer, a lower lamination of old grown fir, making the basic bench about 3 1/2" thick.
i couldn't get any heavy wood timbers to make legs out of, so I used 3" heavy wall steel pipe and heavy rectangle tube stretchers. Its not so pretty as some but I can park one end of a Peterbuilt on it.
The end vise is covered outside in quilted maple and black walnut. Where the sun don't shine is an original design vise, as far as I know. It is an old apple press screw, some 1/4" steel plate, heavy angle iron, 1/2" bolts and some short pipe sections as spacers. Part of what you can see, is a schedule 80 chlorine service pipe flange. :)
I made it to be able to take apart and readjust for wear, but it hasn't needed it in about 15 years use so far.
Unlike many all wood end vises, I can plop my butt up on it and it won't sag even a tiny bit.
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/scott/bench3x.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/scott/bench2.jpg)
yours Scott
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WoW!! Like Fine Art, I could just admire all it's details,..
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Just one more thought about my shop.
It was all made from nothing.
Yard sales and used lumber and junk from the dump too. Hardly any retail --anything--.
The overwhelming majority of the tools? Nobody wanted them, when I met them.
Poor things. Abused, abandoned and forlorn. Barely clinging to their last hope.
And nobody else was coming.
I think they are happy now.
I can only hope the next guy gives them a little respect.
yours Scott
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Scott, you done good. Using what is close to hand, making things fit and work, money doesn't buy the pride that brings. The wood grain on that vise is almost mesmerizing. It shows one doesn't need to live in a big city, with bunches of hardware stores, fine wood outlets, just takes imagination and perseverance. Thank you for sharing.
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It reminds me of a saying memorized many years ago,,, "adapt, improvise, and overcome".
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It reminds me of a saying memorized many years ago,,, "adapt, improvise, and overcome".
Yep, I heard that line in "Heartbreak Ridge", and it has stuck with me, too.
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Gorgeous wood working in there!!!!!!!
cheers,
bird
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Very impressive workshop Scott
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In the picture of the pegboard, with the 3 braces stacked on the lower left.
There is a hammer with a very strange handle. Does it say anything on it?
I am almost certain I just saw the patent for it while looking through hammer patents....
(Unfortunatly, I didn't save the search group, and I didn't read it, wasn't what I was looking for, just noticed the strange handle in passing)
PS: Is it possible to lust over a chunk of wood?
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Your bench is wonderful. I have seen it before on another forum, and it always makes me wish I could do that caliber of work. Thanks for showing it.
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In the picture of the pegboard, with the 3 braces stacked on the lower left.
There is a hammer with a very strange handle. Does it say anything on it?
I am almost certain I just saw the patent for it while looking through hammer patents....
(Unfortunatly, I didn't save the search group, and I didn't read it, wasn't what I was looking for, just noticed the strange handle in passing)
PS: Is it possible to lust over a chunk of wood?
Hey Rusty
Its not marked but its a slaters hammer. One end to poke holes in the slate and the other to drive the nails. The long flat shank under the head is semi sharpened along its length. Guys will use that to carve roofing slate like it was cotton candy into any shape they like, and lickety split. Its really impressive work.
Of course the nearest piece of genuine roofing slate is probably 3000 miles away from me,
but still.............. heehehehe
Western soft maple was considered a total weed tree until it got popular with electric guitar makers. It used to be nearly free.
yours Scott
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Hey Rusty
Its not marked but its a slaters hammer. One end to poke holes in the slate and the other to drive the nails. The long flat shank under the head is semi sharpened along its length. Guys will use that to carve roofing slate like it was cotton candy into any shape they like, and lickety split. Its really impressive work.
Western soft maple was considered a total weed tree until it got popular with electric guitar makers. It used to be nearly free.
yours Scott
Slater's hammer, AKA a zax. Big leaf maple... Wish I'd found some back in the "total weed days." Ain't just the electric guitar makers -- I was shown an acoustic beauty by a luthier who had made it on commission for Trini Lopez with a quilted big leaf maple sound board. It sure sounded sweet as well as looking like a piece of art.