Cool Tools
 

Pretty self explanatory...Have/found a cool tool? Show it to us.

First off...a burned drill:

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I thought we had such a thread, but, a brief search didn't turn it up...

...not in my briefs, anyway.

:D

Cool? Cold. :p:

Now...Is this a hand tool, or, not a hand tool?

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:D

I wish I needed a 24" wrench to handle my tool. :(

that looks more than cool, it looks downright cold. shrinkage, xoB, shrinkage.

Yes, but faster than an axe so shorter shrinkage duration.

Chinese drills

Looks cool, but you ain't fooling me, lawn mowing still sucks.

What are they? Tools!
What are they for? Tooling!

Imma guess this person mostly does leather work. All those various knives are leather working tools, and a handful of tools are held to the board with leather scraps.

Lotta leather and a few metal ... prolly made a knife or two in his/her day.

I've got a strop like the one in the upper left, third tool down. 4 sides: slate, leather w/ medium compound, leather w/ fine compound, plain leather.

Not so much cool tools, but other uses for tools you may have.

These are good. I like all the tips for using your drill to buff, clean, etc.

The repurposed compressor tricks are a little alarming. Do they just blow the glue into the cracks? And the stain? Wtf is going on there?

Who said anything about glue?
"A shot of air from your compressor drives stain deep into the grooves surrounding panels. That way, if the panel shifts or shrinks, you won't end up with an unstained line along the edge of the panel. At the same time, it blasts excess stain out, so it can't dribble out later and leave dark streaks. This works great on inside corners, on carvings or on any spot where it's tough to wipe off excess stain."

Yeah!

What he said I said.

OK, didn't notice that one. That makes sense when trying to repair a crack. Not like jointing two pieces you can butter up, it's hard to get glue in a crack.

Used this trick just three days ago. It's especially helpful when you have a partial split and you don't want to completely break it apart and re-glue it. Blast that shit in there and follow up with a wet rag...

WHS^

Wait...Is this woodwork, or your sex life?:eyebrow:

Both. ;)

Lately, woodwork has been my sexlife.

Not quite a cool tool...

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Doesn't Judas Pierst have a song by that title?;)

Scored one of these today!



I regularly trawl through the local Habitat for Humanity store in my neighborhood. The one in the picture is a 1943, and showroom shiny. The one I got is a 1947, different base and motor, but the jointer is the same. Lots of surface rust, runs like a scalded dog. Pics later.

Cool, you'll have the shortest fingernails in town. :thumb:

It'll be the perfect crime--no fingerprints.

Sweet. Nice grab V.

very nice. I could use one of those, but space is beginning to become an issue.

This store has lots of stuff. I get reclaimed building supplies here for my home projects, etc. And they frequently have tools that need a good home. Which I'm happy to provide.

This is more than a tool, this qualifies as a machine. I've seen grinders, table saws, radial arm saws, jigsaws, scrollsaws, etc. Lots of bare motors, just recently got a nice strong motor for forty bucks. Details and pics later.

I KICK MYSELF for missing out on a powermatic lathe model 45 for $125. As I was leaving the store, I drove past their back door and it was sitting in the lot waiting to be loaded onto some guy's truck, he'd just bought it. If only I had showed up earlier. The guy that helped me load the jointer said the lathe had been there for a week and a half. Fuck.
Anyhow. I'll keep you guys posted.

This.

:thumb:

:lol2:

I have a little wrench that has suffered similar indignities.

I still don't know what is wrong with that picture?

Ever use a micrometer?

Pico, what he called a "C clamp" is actually a precision tool which measures in increments of 0.001 or 0.0001 inches....
or in metric for them furiners. :lol:

OH, OK its this. So did he break it when he tried to use it like a clamp?

I believe the picture was set up as a joke, and no micrometers were harmed in the process. ;)

:p:

My heart immediately sank when I saw that.
Hoping it was a set up. If he clamped that down harrrrd, it would need to be re-calibrated, no?

The owner of the micrometer wouldn't need it anymore... doing 20 to life.

Nahh, enter the photo into evidence and no jury would convict...
;)

... for murdering the asshat who destroyed his tool?

Exactly!

Wrenches and wenches.

Axe me no questions, I'll give you no blisters.

Interesting there's no Michigan, maybe the image is from before it was a state or territory. I wonder what the difference is, just a style thing, or maybe somehow works better with the lumber in that region.

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Why the double edged ax head?

I've seen these for years, but don't understand them. Is it just so you can sharpen both at once and flip it around when one gets dull?

This is my guess, when it's an hour or mores travel to the logging site and the grindstone is back at camp.

When you're swing an axe all day it get's dull, and you can only touch it up with a whet stone so much.
Having two blades you can grind them differently, one side super sharp for limbs and brush, and the other a little thicker to stand up to heavy chopping.

Don't forget it's more efficient to kill that grizzly on the back swing and not break your cadence. :blush:

That is a lie. A damn lie.:yesnod:

I'm sure they'd carry files and whetstones with them.

I hope to go the The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake again this coming summer. If I do, I'll take photos of their logging history exhibit. Those guys were insane. Animal.

I remember reading about how much a logger would eat at each meal, it seemed unbelievable, something like a dozen eggs, a couple of pounds of bacon or sausage, a dozen pancakes, Probably 10,000 calories if that's possible. Meals were eaten in silence and the loggers were serious about that. Probably got an ass kicking if you talked.

I wouldn't be surprised if they had guys on the crew who just sharpened shit all day long.

Grandpadigr was a logger. I can remember Popdigr telling about what his dad would eat.

He once ate three rabbits for breakfast. This was with biscuits, eggs, bacon, grits, and probably a pancake or twelve.

It's truly insane the fuel your body requires for high energy labor.

I always ate a big breakfast, a light lunch and a large supper when I was trimming trees.

And that's how you get to weigh 305 lbs after ya quit trimming trees, but keep eating like you're still trimming trees.

BTW, I'm down from a 44 inch waist to a 36. And I weighed 213 lbs last time. Yay me.:cheerldr:

Popdigr just told me Grandpadigr thought a 'single-bitted axe' was for little girls. Nothing but 'double-bitted' axes for Pa Pa.

Not to mention high energy in cold weather!

Awesome! My buddy hiked the AT and kept eating AT levels of food after he got back and the same thing happened to him.

Absolutely.

Preposterous...

hahaha ahahahaahaha a a ahahaahahah!!!

Somebody better Get Smart indeed!