Tom: When you are at your polishing wheel, what is/are your preferences for polishing compounds? What's your wheel made of?
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Because of a general lack of cash since we decided only one of us would work and the other stay at home with the kids i tend to only buy stuff i will use or can shift on to pay for more junk! no doubt if i had more money id be a nightmare! Back pre kids i was a avid collector of certain sorts of militaria, the real obsessive does research in the bowels of museums sort. I managed to ween myself off that due to the lack of time and money. when i got more time after they grew up a bit i got into handicrafts and have been doing it on a shoe string ever since. I've had some wonderful luck so no one believes i've not ploughed loads of money into it. Sorry the heats got to me and i'm rambling!
The oil lamp will I admit only get used very occasionally, I'm hovering on the edge of doing some living history type stuff so im a sucker for stuff like that which may be useful one day. I'm generally into primitive lighting anyway, its nearly the supposed optimal time for harvesting soft rushes to make rush lights, the last couple of years have been rubbish round here. I need some thick juicy ones with about 15" of viable stem.
Least i've paid for a undented brass zippo is 50p although some folk ask silly money for even rough ones. I,ve given the three sons one each and let mates have a couple over the years so I must have found a dozen so far for peanuts, worst they have needed were new wicks and a polish.
I've picked up about half a dozen different grades of polishing compound so I tend to use which ever is most suitable according to the material being worked on and the stage of polishing. 'only problem is if i lose the label off the block! ive got 2 wheels, both stitched cotton with leather washers, one a inch wide, the other two, i tend to use the one inch for the brass polish and final polish of steel and the 2 inch for the coarser steel polish. Thankfully the Dutch bench grinder came with a bonus extra large guard on the polishing/ wire brush side so i don't have to worry too much about the compound being thrown off and going every where.
I've just given my tarty scandi workbench its approximately biannual clean up after the bits to repair my belt sander arrived last week. i just skimmed a couple of mill off the surface to remove the worst of the damage and stains, stuff that could mark jobs or just annoyed me ( the lads are much better at looking after it now so tricks like removing a corner of one of the vices and sawing into the table are a thing of the past I hope.) Ive a half sized and full coverage false tops for it made with some painfully expensive marine ply and edged with beading for really dirty projects. Also Ive now got a plastic tray that has two holes in it that acts as a sort of drip tray for when the big metal working vice is bolted to it, thats cut down the nasty black iron and oil stains getting in the beech a lot. damned if i know why i didn't do that from the start. What i need is a separate dedicated vice stand. At least I know the floor can take it, a local history type visited us a few weeks back and said there would have been 5 or 6 great big wooden looms in my shed back in the day.
Anyroad, I really am rambling now so Ill go andsign off.
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Tom
The oil lamp will I admit only get used very occasionally, I'm hovering on the edge of doing some living history type stuff so im a sucker for stuff like that which may be useful one day. I'm generally into primitive lighting anyway, its nearly the supposed optimal time for harvesting soft rushes to make rush lights, the last couple of years have been rubbish round here. I need some thick juicy ones with about 15" of viable stem.
Least i've paid for a undented brass zippo is 50p although some folk ask silly money for even rough ones. I,ve given the three sons one each and let mates have a couple over the years so I must have found a dozen so far for peanuts, worst they have needed were new wicks and a polish.
I've picked up about half a dozen different grades of polishing compound so I tend to use which ever is most suitable according to the material being worked on and the stage of polishing. 'only problem is if i lose the label off the block! ive got 2 wheels, both stitched cotton with leather washers, one a inch wide, the other two, i tend to use the one inch for the brass polish and final polish of steel and the 2 inch for the coarser steel polish. Thankfully the Dutch bench grinder came with a bonus extra large guard on the polishing/ wire brush side so i don't have to worry too much about the compound being thrown off and going every where.
I've just given my tarty scandi workbench its approximately biannual clean up after the bits to repair my belt sander arrived last week. i just skimmed a couple of mill off the surface to remove the worst of the damage and stains, stuff that could mark jobs or just annoyed me ( the lads are much better at looking after it now so tricks like removing a corner of one of the vices and sawing into the table are a thing of the past I hope.) Ive a half sized and full coverage false tops for it made with some painfully expensive marine ply and edged with beading for really dirty projects. Also Ive now got a plastic tray that has two holes in it that acts as a sort of drip tray for when the big metal working vice is bolted to it, thats cut down the nasty black iron and oil stains getting in the beech a lot. damned if i know why i didn't do that from the start. What i need is a separate dedicated vice stand. At least I know the floor can take it, a local history type visited us a few weeks back and said there would have been 5 or 6 great big wooden looms in my shed back in the day.
Anyroad, I really am rambling now so Ill go andsign off.
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Tom
Thanks. I think most days could be well spent for me as a fly on your shop wall.
I regret that I don't spend enough time "messing around" in my own shop.
I regret that I don't spend enough time "messing around" in my own shop.
Cheers!
Due to the dearth of part time / term time jobs around here and the domestic workload decreasing as the kids (read child labour force ) get older i have more time for faffing about than anybody I know who isn't retired! It seams to suit us anyway, herself is about as domesticated as a Aurox, I can cook much better and now ive stopped buying machine guns am pretty cheap to keep! Unfortunately in 3 years the youngest will be 18 and in all probability they will have all flown the coup, less visits to sponge and recover... Then ill pretty much have to join the rat race again unless i can come up with something at home that brings in the dosh more reliably than finding stuff and ebaying it.
Anyroad, I am off now to perform the manly task of cutting some blue gingham PVC/ oilcloth stuff to cover the kitchen table. WAy back when we spent quite a lot on a big beech topped table to fit in the long thin kitchen, 6 foot by 3 and a separate matching 3 by 3 table ( now in the shed covered with hersel'fs computer cr'p ) to use as a extension at xmas etc. I love the look of the wood even if it is made up from blocks rather than a couple of massive slabs so have been loath to cover it. However I've finally snapped at having to sand out stains from the moron collective not mopping up spills straight away or my favourite , unpacking the shopping, leaving tins on the bare surface and then spilling vinegar so that when I wander down about half hour later theres already a black ring deep into the wood. Toddy told me about scrubbing with damp salt and that works pretty well with most things but I've had to resort to the belt sander once too often. So we trooped off to a big warehouse cloth place, got some PVC material that didn't look like you'd make a under 5's rain coat from ( the first piece herself brought home was a bilious bright yellow covered in psychedelic coloured umbrellas. ) Yesterday I spent about a hour sanding it through three grades of paper and gave it a good three coats of linseed after threatening dire punishments on anyone so much as touching it before its cover is clipped into place.
I've noisier and more butch things to do but that has to wait until some stuff has been delivered as my hearing is currently shot and no way would i hear the door while i'm sanding etc that needs doing. The ear things no biggy just i have to wait until the 6th for a appointment and then the problem will have gone for another 5 or 6 years. By then I will have had the mild indignity of laying on each side in turn for 15 minutes with my earhole full of olive oil for about 30 days.
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Tom
Due to the dearth of part time / term time jobs around here and the domestic workload decreasing as the kids (read child labour force ) get older i have more time for faffing about than anybody I know who isn't retired! It seams to suit us anyway, herself is about as domesticated as a Aurox, I can cook much better and now ive stopped buying machine guns am pretty cheap to keep! Unfortunately in 3 years the youngest will be 18 and in all probability they will have all flown the coup, less visits to sponge and recover... Then ill pretty much have to join the rat race again unless i can come up with something at home that brings in the dosh more reliably than finding stuff and ebaying it.
Anyroad, I am off now to perform the manly task of cutting some blue gingham PVC/ oilcloth stuff to cover the kitchen table. WAy back when we spent quite a lot on a big beech topped table to fit in the long thin kitchen, 6 foot by 3 and a separate matching 3 by 3 table ( now in the shed covered with hersel'fs computer cr'p ) to use as a extension at xmas etc. I love the look of the wood even if it is made up from blocks rather than a couple of massive slabs so have been loath to cover it. However I've finally snapped at having to sand out stains from the moron collective not mopping up spills straight away or my favourite , unpacking the shopping, leaving tins on the bare surface and then spilling vinegar so that when I wander down about half hour later theres already a black ring deep into the wood. Toddy told me about scrubbing with damp salt and that works pretty well with most things but I've had to resort to the belt sander once too often. So we trooped off to a big warehouse cloth place, got some PVC material that didn't look like you'd make a under 5's rain coat from ( the first piece herself brought home was a bilious bright yellow covered in psychedelic coloured umbrellas. ) Yesterday I spent about a hour sanding it through three grades of paper and gave it a good three coats of linseed after threatening dire punishments on anyone so much as touching it before its cover is clipped into place.
I've noisier and more butch things to do but that has to wait until some stuff has been delivered as my hearing is currently shot and no way would i hear the door while i'm sanding etc that needs doing. The ear things no biggy just i have to wait until the 6th for a appointment and then the problem will have gone for another 5 or 6 years. By then I will have had the mild indignity of laying on each side in turn for 15 minutes with my earhole full of olive oil for about 30 days.
ATB
Tom
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Got a score this morning! Delivered to my door aswell, 'modern carbooting'? 
Anywhoo. 5 massive log saws. 3 true two man jobs and 2 with the option at the end for aditional handles.
A mix of axes, hammers, tools etc. The biggest gem here is the old fire fighter axe with the electirc shock resistant handles.
Various carpentry bits including plenty of old spirit levels and a Record 5.1/2 plane!
Two Wolf drills and matching drill press with a range of mahoosive masonry bits. Apparently these are wrist breakers lol.
A mixed bag of cool stuff, those mega saws need a right good clean and I don't really have a use for them.. hang as decoratives? or.. snip snip?
Anywhoo. 5 massive log saws. 3 true two man jobs and 2 with the option at the end for aditional handles.
A mix of axes, hammers, tools etc. The biggest gem here is the old fire fighter axe with the electirc shock resistant handles.
Various carpentry bits including plenty of old spirit levels and a Record 5.1/2 plane!
Two Wolf drills and matching drill press with a range of mahoosive masonry bits. Apparently these are wrist breakers lol.
A mixed bag of cool stuff, those mega saws need a right good clean and I don't really have a use for them.. hang as decoratives? or.. snip snip?
I have the same Wolf drill as the one on the right in your pic.
It definitely is a wrist breaker!
It definitely is a wrist breaker!
Lordy, that's a haul and a half! Tool wise i'm having no real luck. Outdoors stuff has been turning up, Got some pretty much unused Asolo boots for herself for £4 which i've tarty back up, New Tog 24 lightweight trousers, look unworn, 99p, a new with its labels on Craghoppers fleece XXL for £3.50 , Two Karimor packs, one looks new for £10, a 40 litre climbing pack, Hot Earth Elite or some such, just what the middle son needed as he'd just finished off his old 30 litre job, good timing that. The other needs a good wash, a zip puller replacing and is a bit of a naff colour but was only £7.50 which ain't bad for a 60+15 Alpiniste bag. May sell or swap that on. I've also been lucky getting books, mainly woodworking and rural social history.
Anyroad on the tool front this is most of it.
two small hammer handles 50p each.
A bunch of clay sculping tools a quid or so, wasn't paying attention
Plastic and Ally Rabone spirit level £1
Mahogany and brass Rabone spirit level £3, cleaned up nice!
Size 1 lasting pliers, quite old from the construction method. I can't find anything on the maker
F. Allinson
Richmond ( I assume the one in North Yorkshire. ) only other markings is
STEEL HAMMER . 19th century I think.
Herself insisted on wasting a quid on a rather rusty and almost worn chromeless cast iron spirit level by Rabone. I've cleaned it up the best I could. I've a near minter already. Oh well its her money.
Not shown are 3 sizes of Pearsons Pottery cork lidded stone ware jars got for peanuts, one nicely holds two bars of grated pure soap I use for lanolinising wool etc. No local shop sells pure soap flakes now. Also not shown is a 1942 dated iron bound entrenching tool handle i got for a quid in the hope it would fit a small pick mattock head i got surplus, it sort of fits but I decided to carve a handle when i get a bit of ash or Hickory.
Oh one good charity shop shop find was for the princely sum of £1.99 a pair of 1 person non stick Ally' mess tins with plastic mug, pot lifter and stuff sack, still sealed, by Quechua. looks OK and will keep the sprogs off my Evernew Ti!
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Tom
Anyroad on the tool front this is most of it.
two small hammer handles 50p each.
A bunch of clay sculping tools a quid or so, wasn't paying attention
Plastic and Ally Rabone spirit level £1
Mahogany and brass Rabone spirit level £3, cleaned up nice!
Size 1 lasting pliers, quite old from the construction method. I can't find anything on the maker
F. Allinson
Richmond ( I assume the one in North Yorkshire. ) only other markings is
STEEL HAMMER . 19th century I think.
Herself insisted on wasting a quid on a rather rusty and almost worn chromeless cast iron spirit level by Rabone. I've cleaned it up the best I could. I've a near minter already. Oh well its her money.
Not shown are 3 sizes of Pearsons Pottery cork lidded stone ware jars got for peanuts, one nicely holds two bars of grated pure soap I use for lanolinising wool etc. No local shop sells pure soap flakes now. Also not shown is a 1942 dated iron bound entrenching tool handle i got for a quid in the hope it would fit a small pick mattock head i got surplus, it sort of fits but I decided to carve a handle when i get a bit of ash or Hickory.
Oh one good charity shop shop find was for the princely sum of £1.99 a pair of 1 person non stick Ally' mess tins with plastic mug, pot lifter and stuff sack, still sealed, by Quechua. looks OK and will keep the sprogs off my Evernew Ti!
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Tom
Picked up a rather nice Nicholson Made in Canada 12" half round rasp for a quid yesterday, the flea had no other tools worth having. If it hadn't been rattled around in a bucket of engineers files it would have been minty but from the shinyness of the few worn teeth all the wear occured recently. oh well, citic acid removed the thin layer of rust and a light wire wheeling removed the residue.
It has the most wonderfully aggressive teeth, its almost painful to hold it, even lightly, by the blade they are that sharp and pointy! I fitted it, and a lovely Firth Brown Sheffield, dreadnought that's been waiting for one, with a home turned beech handle, both came from a 50p carboot rolling pin. Thick steel ferrules from the off cut of tubing left over from making the mini forge (thanks unto the member of this parish who supplied it!)
Both are going into the roll of wood/horn working rasps i'm building up.
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Tom
It has the most wonderfully aggressive teeth, its almost painful to hold it, even lightly, by the blade they are that sharp and pointy! I fitted it, and a lovely Firth Brown Sheffield, dreadnought that's been waiting for one, with a home turned beech handle, both came from a 50p carboot rolling pin. Thick steel ferrules from the off cut of tubing left over from making the mini forge (thanks unto the member of this parish who supplied it!)
Both are going into the roll of wood/horn working rasps i'm building up.
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Tom
Those scum bags! apparently photobucket has decided they want to charge $400 to allow its users to upload images on forums etc. LOL
Well, I'm going to find another image hosting site and the next day or two transfering all my images over..
Sorry for the hijack boys.
Regarding my large two man saws.. they don't seem to be particularly valuable in a monetary sense neither do I have direct use for them. Would it be sacrilege to repurpose the steel..?
Well, I'm going to find another image hosting site and the next day or two transfering all my images over..
Sorry for the hijack boys.
Regarding my large two man saws.. they don't seem to be particularly valuable in a monetary sense neither do I have direct use for them. Would it be sacrilege to repurpose the steel..?
I was having so much tyrouble with my photobucket account that I closed it!!, I think they now make it so horrible to use for free account holders that they get fed up and leave it to the paying ones!!
Thing is though that at one stage I thought about opening a paid for account but as it got gradually more user unfrienly, It put me off
I use Imgur now, Not many problems yet with it!! (There has been a couple of probs though like the thumbnails being blank so you don't know what the pic is!!)..
John
Well that's a pain. I've been having trouble with Photobucket as well, won't work at all from the ipad. I'll find a new free hosting site but since I just don't have time to put up what must be thousands of images i'm afraid that's a lot of my threads killed off. Way it goes. A bit of a shame as there was the odd tutorial that may have been useful for some one sometime but they can always ask me for the images if they are bothered.
When I've a new host and got something to show and tell I'll start a new thread although of course there's nowt to stop others running with this one.
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Not a bad run for a thread about (mainly ) rusty bits of iron!
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Tom
When I've a new host and got something to show and tell I'll start a new thread although of course there's nowt to stop others running with this one.
Replies: 833
Views: 92,053
Not a bad run for a thread about (mainly ) rusty bits of iron!
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Tom
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Dear Tom:
If this is the end of this thread, I want to thank you for all of the illuminations into old tools that you have provided.
They are asking for a $400 annual "membership". That's their price penalty to spread knowledge. Real ethnic scourge.
They haven't caught up to me but that could change any minute.
Also what that's done is to encourage a flood of spambot interferences here in North America.
If you get a video from a friend, don't open it without confirming the origin.
If this is the end of this thread, I want to thank you for all of the illuminations into old tools that you have provided.
They are asking for a $400 annual "membership". That's their price penalty to spread knowledge. Real ethnic scourge.
They haven't caught up to me but that could change any minute.
Also what that's done is to encourage a flood of spambot interferences here in North America.
If you get a video from a friend, don't open it without confirming the origin.
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Hi Tom
You could try Imgur but they may go the same way as photobucket too
I had an hour at my local bootsale and brought a few bits back with me.. (Not tools though
)£60 for this Xisico B3-1 AK47 lookalike! It's actually an airgun in .22cal and as twangy as most other Chinese thrown together guns!!
A cheap and nasty sheath knife but without sheath for £3..
The darker one of these two Frenchies was £5, The chap wanted £10 for it but as the tip needs regrinding, He stettled for the fiver!!
I also got a fake Omega and a fake Rolex watch for £5 and £4 respectively, Both are still going and keeping half decent time!!
The fake tat watches are just knockabout watches, For whaty I paid it doesn't matter if they get busted up!! They are auto movements though and not Qtz!!
John
The wifes just emailed me about imgurs small print saying 3rd party psoting is forbidden so she will sign me up to flikr and postimage.com to see if they were Ok.
I'll stick to posting on the new carboot tools thread as I find all the pulled images slightly depressing, i've only put up a few images so far there so if it goes to poo i will put them back up from which ever of the above woks best.
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Tom
I'll stick to posting on the new carboot tools thread as I find all the pulled images slightly depressing, i've only put up a few images so far there so if it goes to poo i will put them back up from which ever of the above woks best.
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Tom
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