The essence of education is self reliance- T.H. White.
Currently seeking wood carving tools, wood planes, froes, scorps, spokeshaves... etc....
that is great, start then young. you got a great little one there.
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!
Would it be a good idea to store hand planes with the lever cap handle released to take tension off the spring steel?
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
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
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger - or else it gives you a bad rash.
Venison is free-range, organic, non-GMO and gluten-free
Is there a good resource on how to refinish an old plane?
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.
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.
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 Am Descended From Men Who Would Not Be Ruled
Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum
There is enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world
Ronald Reagan.
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 |