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"yes the standard model frame came from the drill - just saw that style drill on flea market table in PA. this fall - asking price was $300.00, + refused $100.00 offer - "
Yes,, you can easily look at the pistol grip designed hand drill & see how he came up with his first gun, the Standard Auto. Oh,, if I had seen one at a flea market,, for $300,, I would have tried to haggle a little,, but I would have bought it,, if it'd been in good shape.
Abunaitoo, wow! That is some cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.
A Stanley No 94 butt gauge. Used for installing doors, hinges (I think) and as a square. Courtesy of a reproduction Stanley catalog
Back in the god old days, people would repair their tools.
In the second picture, lower right corner.
It is a replacement tape measure tape.
I don't thinks anyone even sells those anymore.
I have an old tape measure that has a leather cover.
I'll see if I can find it and post a picture.
Always been interested in tools since I took 7th grade shop. I continued taking school shop classes all through public school; became a shop teacher as my career. Working in the school shops gave me the chance to continue using and showing how to use these fine tools to my students. Enclosed is some photos of some current students using hand tools in my 7th/8th grade semester woodworking class. A Miller Falls hand drill and a brace with a bit adaptor (from Lee Valley tools) are being used in the assembly of a small folding stool.
Our shop has some "modern" tools/machines as well. We have a couple of CNC routers as well as a CNC wood lathe that students gain experience with. Between these machines and the old, I feel it's a nice balance that the students get in my classes.
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ive had one of these with the longer handle for about 10 years now. fortunately got it before prices went crazy. use it nearly every day during the winter. in fact, I just used it earlier to cut kindling. ive never had to sharpen it and it is just as razor sharp today as the day I got it. ive got a bunch of hatchets and axes some antique some modern but I dont think there is a better axe steel that what this maker produces.
And I have seen a replacement tape measure tape. About ten years ago was the last I seen one.
Thanks all for posting.
I have a bit adapter from lee valley as well as a socket adapter for my brace. One of the few things from before the fire. I don’t have any drill bits though other than one that is in very poor shape.
I’ve been slowly gathering my tools. They are scattered here and there. Some in the shop, some the house. Some various tool boxes. I’m going to get them all in one place atleast for a while. I want to make a wooden toolbox for them. Been pondering it.
Got the wood plane apart and about half done. Got to do something to the chip breaker as I found sawdust under it. The boy helped thus far.
Got the cap on the spokeshave tuned pretty good now. Flat on the back and removed the square face so shavings don’t bunch up. It works like a dandy now! Makes a ribbon from walnut that is a thing of beauty. Does fair on that ash I’m making the hatchet handle out of.
I got a bad axe habit forming. I need a double bit. Been eying the one at ace hardware but... maybe I can find a used one. The handle grain doesn’t suit me on the one at ace. It’s a council so it ain’t bad.
You need to move further inland, away from that salt air
A small sample of my stash of bits to be used with my brace:
Think there is still another full set of auger bits around here, don't think I gave them away. I may have. I had 4 braces at one time. The bits may have gone with them.
The brace I kept was my Dad's. The Hitler brace. Always razzed my dad about having tools paid for by Hitler. After my dad came home from the service, the local Extension office put together an agronomy course for the returning GI's. Basically a 2 year tech degree program in farming in association with Michigan State University.
One of the instructors finagled the funding so every student got a VERY complete set of tools. Mechanic's, carpenter's, electrician's and plumber's tools. In today's world a multi-thousand dollar set of tools.
Without Adolph, dad would never have got his set of tools. I and his grandkids are still using those tools and their kids probably will continue using them. Thanks, Adolph!
After we moved 4 years ago I had to have a shop built and then outfit it. I didn’t really want to be a woodworker but it was a necessity. I ended up getting a mix of hand and power tools. Got an old Disston hand saw and a sharpening vise, a couple of hand planes from the early 1900s and a more recent but still old block plane, a brace and bits, old Marples chisels made in Sheffield, England and probably more that isn’t coming to mind at the moment. They’re a fantastic supplement to the power tools.
Sometimes life taps you on the shoulder and reminds you it's a one way street. Jim Morris
Micah 6:8
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
"I don't have hobbies - I'm developing a robust post-apocalyptic skill set"
I may be discharged and retired but I'm sure I did not renounce the oath that I solemnly swore!
I didn’t restore the one I have, just refurbished it enough to use. I disassembled it and used wd40 and sandpaper to remove the rust. Wire brush for the small parts. Reassemble it after sharpening. I would like to restore one. The process begins the same way but you remove the paint and the staining from the rust, repaint, polish the metal, and refinish the tote and knob.
a note for old hand saw uses. i cut the blade into pieces with a cutoff blade in a handgrinder. use the pieces to make cabinet scrapers and thin knives for the shop
Going to make a trip to the Mercer Museum in Pa this year, supposed to be great woodworking tool museum.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |