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Ok, I like to try different stones, and wanted to try a Thuringian Water Hone. I am sure this is one but I am unsure as who the manufacturer is, the logo looks like S&D or D&S. The biggest name for Thuringian hones is Escher (Note that “Echter” is german for ‘real’ or ‘genuine’ – not to be...

Bought a triton whetstone at a very good price, hardly used, so my first purchase was a truing tool. Looked at options and Tormek tt-50 was the best design, post 2019 model, (let us try to forget the tt-50 cost nearly as much as the Triton…lol). So bought it (Rothco & Frost best price I could...

https://covingtonandsons.com/ Stumbled on this web site. Interesting if you like reading about chisels……that why I love Uk Workshop, that’s normal here! 🍉

Anyone tried this horizontal grinder? Have tried asking the company on line how much replacement stones are, to be told its so new they have no spares…….thank you. Er, how can you buy without being able to get consumable parts? Maybe it will not last that long? Who are lumberjack? Part of...

Had a post on my thread about a saw from mhn, see below. Perhaps everyone on the forum who has been lucky enough to inherit tools might post a "flat laid photo" with the story of the person(s), with at least Their name, Where/if they trained Amateur or professional Years they were alive Where...

"BRITTAIN, Frederick SHEFFIELD, 102 Wellington Street 1864-1866, St George's Works, Shoreham Street 1876-1887." Merchant, and manufacturer of steel, saws, files and tools. An influential Sheffield industrialist, and part of a large and ancient extended family of Sheffield manufacturers, many...

Thought I would post this interesting pre-1928 Disston saw, it has an alternating pattern of five cross cut teeth and two rip teeth, with the sets of teeth separated by a deep gullet to carry out saw dust. It was designed to be used by framing carpenters as both a cross cut and rip saw as well...

Merry Christmas all. I have been going through all my saw literature and can not find any catalogue with this one in. Any one have anything? I estimate 1900-1915ish, (from nib, handle style and nuts) if you have anything which positively dates it, that would be great.

Traditional crafts of the future, what might they be, and how will they be made? The first people probably used their finger nails to scrape a shape from piece of wood. Then purpose made hand tools developed, followed by power tools and now computer aided design, what next? I have seen a couple...

BCR or the Budget Conscious Roubo. I made this in November 2018. It has had a few test modifications extra vices, dog holes in the top etc (test bed), but I don't seem to have any photos of this at the moment. It is in France and I have not gone back this year because of the difficulty of COVID...