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So through lockdown ive been working on a book about my journey in woodworking from my unique perspective of someone with autisum as well as that I’m delving into the relationship of old and new and the large amount of people now with a healthy interest in vintage tools. There’s also a lot of...

Anyone remember the stuff or still use it I think plumbers may still use it but doesn’t anyone else have a tub in there tool box or ever made one of the nice wooden boxes to keep some in

Saw this on lumberjocks. Bloke who posted it left for some reason so can’t ask if it’s ok to post but he found it at a yard sale said they were selling it but I think he’s the type to keep it while. I was hoping to get my grandads but a relative clearer His workshop one day as he was vulnerable...

So here’s a Dutch style tool chest I’ve been working on for about a week

Anyone made a Dutch tool chest been looking for old fashioned cut nails

Need some footwear for the workshop woundered what people recommend

I hope this is allowed. I’ll begin pre lockdown I was suffering with my Crohn’s disease a fair bit and joint pain well it’s only gone and gotten worse so not able to do the hard physical work I’ve been accustomed to as frustrating as that is I’ve sort out new ventures one of which is an Etsy...

So rust blasted stuff it is. I’ve decided to make a small traveling box to protect my tools as I haven’t the wall space for a hanging one and like the option to remove them easily if needed at my main workshop. I’ve turned the garage into a mini hand tool workshop currently much to my partners...

I remember visiting Birmingham museum before all the covid rubbish and there was this cabinet past the ww1 exhibit of a few bits of the industrial past one thing that caught my eye was a metal riveted hand made tool box must’ve weighed a bit but was very nice to look at real craftsmanship. Years...

Is there anyone from the old days when courses were hard to pass and you were taught more than the very basics? I think I remember my grandfarther saying his course was 7 years including his apprenticeship although that may have been muddled with WW2 popping up at the same time. I was after a...

Can’t work out if this was a tool box saw which seems unlikely given the age of it and then I also thought of a child’s saw for w wealthy family as the handles tiny

Here’s my main workbench made from 3 inch top planks and 2 inch aprons and 4x4 legs

Recently restored this french clog makers axe from around the late 1800s with a turned handle made from boxwood

Always remember my grandad wearing a white coat sortve like a doctors one but then thought of the two ronnies and the brown onse workers etc used to wear anyone still wear one

My copy of my grandfarther carpenters toolbox I can’t imagine chaps taking these on the trains and buses back in the day be nice to know what tools people used back then my grandads were taken by a relative for eBaying sadly

So I wanted a smaller tool chest and found this old one on eBay and then went about restoring it. Was previously used by and electrical engineer in the British army

So I’ve been gifted this lovely set of original marples chisels by my girlfriends grandad I feel very lucky indeed

So here’s my tool box it’s a hop up saw bench and has a cut out for holding a door and two small boxes to hold small hand tools then a much larger space below. I’ve tried many different types over the years and only downside is it’s not lockable so then if I have to I use my old joiner box