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This is from a local group to me; the poster says the name stamped on the handle is "SHAXESHAFT" It's a new one on me - I'd guess some kind of crimping tool. Anyone able to positively identify it? BugBear

A blade followed me home; it's 3/4" wide, marked Stanley, and appears to come from a shoulder plane with a depth adjuster. The rack, measured via this photograph, appears to have 7 teeth in 0.9" inches, which makes 0.128 inches per rack, or likely 1/8". Does anyone know which plane this is...

I finally got round to making a case for my Charnley Forest stone; car-boot-hone-t105298.html?hilit=charnley (May last year, doesn't time fly!) EDIT; link to the other thread, for convenience: mounting-an-irrgular-hone-t105318.html I took the last opportunity before casing it to flatten the...

I have had a decent Wolf Drill stand for a long time; heavy cast iron base, MASSIVE hexagonal pillar (and rack). Sadly, I have the later model with the plastic carriage, not the earlier die cast one. It works well enough for most purposes. On Sunday, my friend (*) the house clearance guy had a...

I saw this graphic on Twitter. It the Reindeer strikes me as an ideal pattern. BugBear

At the car boot, a house clearance guy had a REALLY old, tatty workbench. What was interesting was that it had a wooden screwed leg vise, on an angle. Very rare indeed. BugBear

Saw this over the weekend; the making of Russian Dolls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtFC4_UaPzI BugBear

A guy at the car boot today was selling a load of stuff "from the old country". I think he had the entire contents of some rural peasant barn, somewhere in Eastern Europe. There were cleft wood hay forks, ox yokes (both single and double) wooden shafted ploughs, various fibre prepping heckles...

Does anyone have a working copy of this? A club I'm in have been looking for, and just found the master copy of their logo, but it's in PSP 10 format. No software I have can read it. :( If anyone has a working copy of PSP and could do a "save as..." into a common format for me, I'd be...

I am very happy with my posh glasses, from my posh opticians. But because I sometimes forget to take my glasses into work on monday, so I want a backup pair to put in a drawer. There are loads of cheap glasses-over-the-internet companies. Can anyone recommend a particular one, that they've...

My guttering down pipe has come away from the wall, because the old wall plugs have just dried out. Does anyone have an old carpentry book giving instruction in this old fashioned way of fixing "stuff" to walls? I know you use an axe to shape a block with a twist, so that as it is hammered...

Pickings have been thin of late, but today I found something. It was brown and sad looking, but the plate was straight and the handle fancy enough to indicate a quality saw. The "brown" was some kind of ages old wiped on grease, and came off easily with white spirit on denim (a usefully harsh...

I was watching a factory video, on the making of the famous Hofner Violin bass. http://www.hofner.com/violin_bass_history What I found fascinating was that the operations are either jig or template guided machines or extreme cases of the workmanship of risk. Nothing in between. The neck is...

After a generous gift by a neighbour, and some sweaty sawing, I have an absolutely splendid chopping block for firewood. (that's a thirty inch bow saw, for scale) It's currently quite green. How do I make it last as long as possible? My main concerns are * short term -...

Both a close-enough cap-iron and the high enough effective pitch will reduced tearout. Are the mechanisms (in fact) the same, or do they work in different ways to achieve the same result? On the face of things, it seems "quite reasonable" that adding a cap iron with a 20 degree bevel to a plane...

Over the weekend I cut down a knackered conifer, and was cutting the bigger branches up for firewood (saw horse + Tyzack bow saw). The saw was binding/pinching in the cut very badly, and it was hard work. I spent around 20 minutes of misery at this, because I knew I couldn't sharpen a hardpoint...

Does anyone have any old book instructions about mounting an irregular hone more detailed than "excavate a matching cavity and set in plaster of Paris" ? BugBear

Well, the s/h season is upon us. In a pile of very rusty tools (it turned out the bucket they had been stored in got full of water...) there was a scrap of dark, oily, irregular stone. Now, in my rural area, these are often just tool "rubs" (used for scythes. hooks etc) heavily worn. But, if...

I know we've had threads before about expensive scribing tools, and how one of the best actual scribing tools is just an old school compass. It appears there's a fly in this ointment. For no reason I can discern, plain old school compasses are going for crazy money on eBay. Here's a brass...

Long go I bought a decent fitters q/r vice for a fiver. I've recently got round to cleaning it up, tuning/fettling it, and mounting it for use. I used my usual "block" mount, so I can put it on my dirty work workbench AKA B&D workmate. This time the block was made up from laminated plywood -...