Vintage woodworking tools.

[beezapilot]

I've not had much luck with photos on this site, but will try a few from my shop.
I use many of them, that Whitman & Miles slick is just under 5 pounds of razor on a stick, very handy!
Drop a PM with your number if you would like, I'll text the ones that wouldn't post

[Bazoo]

I too enjoy working with wood, always have and I do have quiet a few nice old hand tools. Block planes, Jack planes, joiner planes, rabbit plane, twist drills and braces, a good assortment of chisels. carpenters squares and hand saws both finish and rough. I remember once I was helping the community build a wood play station for the kindergarten and I used the planes to finish the edges etc. No one had every seen anyone use a hand plane before!
You should keep looking for that old stuff, the quality is almost always good and better yet if it is stamped "Made in America"
best atr

Thanks for your comment. My boy is getting the love too, as we hunt for and refurbish old tools.

[abunaitoo]

I am interested. You have a collection of everything don’t ya?

Kind of a pack rat.
Have way to much stuff.
I'll dig out some old tools and post.

[JimB..]

I've not had much luck with photos on this site, but will try a few from my shop.
I use many of them, that Whitman & Miles slick is just under 5 pounds of razor on a stick, very handy!
Drop a PM with your number if you would like, I'll text the ones that wouldn't post

Love the organization!

[toot]

that is great, start then young. you got a great little one there.

[toot]

beemer, I haven't seen a saw set since the 1970's. got one at a flea market, then asked an old timer how to use it. they work great! and at 78++++,I am the old timer!

[quack1]

Do you have any of the vintage Ruger hand tools?

Here's a pair of different Ruger Corporation hand drills.

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Gee, I wonder where Bill Ruger got the design for the frame on his first 22 pistol?

[jim 44-40]

Would it be a good idea to store hand planes with the lever cap handle released to take tension off the spring steel?

[beemer]

beemer, I haven't seen a saw set since the 1970's. got one at a flea market, then asked an old timer how to use it. they work great! and at 78++++,I am the old timer!

Saw sets were common around here, I have picked up several at good prices. Last one I bough was probably 15 years ago, a new looking Millers Falls for $3. The old guy selling it didn't know what it was. My Dad found a crosscut saw set, he was going to show me how sharpen one but time got away from us.

I looked or a handsaw vice for years and found two one weekend. A fellow in front of me picked up the first one before I got it, I bought the next one. You can get along with a regular vice and two short stiff boards but a proper vice really works well.

Dave

[WRideout]

I recently read the Foxfire book that dealt with Appalachian iron making and blacksmithing. One section told of a blacksmith who rather routinely reshaped axes to thin the cutting edge, after they had been sharpened repeatedly. It seems to me that would be a lot of ax using and sharpening.

Wayne

[contender1]

Another picture of an old Ruger tool.

[Bazoo]

I recently read the Foxfire book that dealt with Appalachian iron making and blacksmithing. One section told of a blacksmith who rather routinely reshaped axes to thin the cutting edge, after they had been sharpened repeatedly. It seems to me that would be a lot of ax using and sharpening.

Wayne

I have book 1 and 2. Very interesting and useful info contained their in.

[Bazoo]

Another picture of an old Ruger tool.

That is cool. The other two have a Ruger look. This one.. not so much.

[dannyd]

I have been using this Stanley for 55 years and I lived over a cabinet shop for the first 17 years of my life. That old building was packed with some of best woodworking equipment on earth.

[Shurshot2]

Is there a good resource on how to refinish an old plane?

[15meter]

First started using a Yankee screwdriver in college. I still have a small one that I use occasionally. Should pick up one of the original wood handled full sized ones just for the grins of it.

I helped in the scene shop in the theater building helping to build props for the productions. Fun times.

THE best place to meet chicks on campus.

But I was a dirty old man even back then.

[contender1]

The FoxFire books,, I have them all. In book #5 I believe,, is the stuff on building Flintlock muzzleloading rifles. And one of the people they highlight is Jim Chambers,, of Chambers Flintlocks. His daughter,, is my DIL. My son married into a gun family.

The Ruger tools were built before Bill started the gun company. He started the "Ruger Corporation" in 1946. It closed in 1948. He opened Sturm, Ruger firearms in 1949.

[William Yanda]

Is there a good resource on how to refinish an old plane?

Check the Oldtools Archive.

[jonp]

"Stood on a chair and used a 12 gauge to start a hole I could then get my key-hole saw into. Fun times!"

My wife just doesn't understand the utility value of things like that.

Wayne

My father used a 30-30 to punch holes in the roof of his trailer to put a stovepipe through. Not exactly round but close enough for the collar to cover.

[jonp]

A hatchet given by a friend.

That's a good friend.