Hand Tools

Friday and Saturday..Village wide sales in West Liberty, OH... Friday's "haul"? And.. And..for $0.25.. Chisel is a 2" wide Blue Grass brand...Little vise is a Columbian...That be a Marking Knife...The Brace is a Stanley No.8 Fray Brace,,,marked as ORD DEPT USA. That is an un-opened pack of sandpaper. Bevel gauge will need a bit of work... Saturday was a bit skimpy....$3 for 2 items... Both came from Sears....Block plane is by Sargent.....Cleaned it up... That brace still had cosmoline on the thumbscrew's threads, BTW. They were last made back in 1942... Not too bad of a weeken…

found these and some other tools at the local restore. not sure what they are for, but have suspicions...

The last on-line auction I "attended" was near the end of September, 2021. Several tool lots; won a few; several I didn't. Most of my purchases were more L&G related stuff so I won't bore you with that. However, one lot turned out to have some surprises. Actual auction site pictures. I bid on this lot thinking the tool box might be an old Craftsman or ??? hip roof tool box. Didn't look inside the toolbox really at the pick-up site. It was kinda frenzied there and I was under a time crunch to get back in time for grandson's football games plus my stuff was located all over and you had to pick and load everything yourself. I wasn't…

One garage sale/household sale....then raid 2 antique stores...Start at 0900 this morning...then have to take the Boss to Lowes... Spent $5 on five items at the garage sale....was going to get away with only 3 items....until I went back and looked some more... A hammer head, 2 c clamps... that folding ruler, and a little block plane....that was sitting out in the rain when I walked by... That Millers Falls No. 61A came from one store, the chisel and the 2 drill bits came from the store next to the first one....next...clean things up a bit... Hammer head got cleaned up, and a handle... This strange thing is a co…

From on-line auction about three weeks ago, I bid on "4 empty tools cases" I was the only one to bid, so got them for $1+ auction premium. Due to miserable weather it was a few days before I got them out of the truck and to my surprise, they weren't empty. No major scores, but got $1.15 worth. I was just happy with the cases. Finally got a-round-tuit taking pictures. You know what "they" say..."one man's junk is another man's junk, 'er treasures." Picture is auction site picture. I wanted the top case for my Ryobi cordless reciprocating saw and R/A drill. Figured I could cut out any molded pockets so both would fit. Lucked out, some…

I have been trying to find out what type of hand plane this is. There is a knob with the victor logo of what appears to be Leonard Baileys Victor line but nothing that I could find matches anything as far as the plane itself goes. There are no other markings that I can see and the plane measures 26" long. Any help identifying this thing would be greatly appreciated. Also no screw for the tote either, it is just held on by friction.

Gonna try these out this summer. Got mine in today. Saw a guy on youtube recommend them. They're chromed.......actually made for something in the ski industry. I've never used anything but the mid-grade newer Nicholson type for filing...all the good stuff I've been buying last several years was coarse for rasping on powder horns etc...

Dropped a bag of clothes off at the Lutheran Center....wasn't any tools in their Thrift Store.... Had a 24" F style clamp from Harbor Freight...that the rubber handle had broken..was informed that IF i bring the clamp back to the store, they would replace it, free of charge ( Life time warrantee) Took care of that. On the way back home-station....stopped at the Local Antique Mall....and spend $10 and change.. Sole looked good..at least.. Iron has issues, though.. As someone used a hammer to adjust the depth of cut....has a "mushroom" growing just above the Stanley Logo Might get around to a little clean up, s…

Was cleaning out the area behind where the Drill Press USED to sit....and buried under all the dust, and shavings... Wire brush to get to look this good....bolt was bent....a 32oz Ball Pean Hammer soon had it straightened out. Threads were cleaned out, and oiled...then the bolt was ran all the way out, and then all the way back in..with a bit of "fine tuning" along the way...until it was working like new Other side says it MIGHT be a No. 4? So...what IS a Tank Clamp?

just for the heck of it my primary drawer in the little tool box at the restore with the tools i use most frequently to de-contruct lights, fans, etc for re-cycling of the metals. since i am a volunteer there,all the money we raise from this goes directly into stuff for new homes. included are 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 mm wrenches (with the 14 being the most commonly used on 3/8 pipe nipples holding lamps together. that long tubular job in the middle is a 10" 14mm deep well socket (originally for certain Denso plugs). 1/2" pipe normally held in place with 11/16 nuts. red handle pliers are the HF replacements for my Knipex pliers which i leave at home now. 1/4 ratchet se…

While out and about today...decided to stop in at the local Antique Mall here in town.....not much new in the basement, nor on the ground floor....hobbled upstairs to the second floor..looked around...next thing I know, an object had attached itself to my hand...and refused to let go....back downstairs to check out... Well..Sales Tax added a $1.81 to the price....$25.00 for this plane? Millers Falls No. 8 , type 2.. That be a Patent date in the red circle... And, So..ya think I can keep it? After all, I did turn me nose up a TWO Stanley Handyman plane-wannabees

What is the difference between a coping saw and a fret saw? I was browsing the Blue Spruce Toolworks site and came across their coping saw and fret saw page. I couldn't see much difference, except for maybe a small size difference. I was also looking at their bench chisels. $994 for a set of chisels? Granted, they are good tools, and it was an 11 piece set, but still. $994? Maybe I was blinded by the price, and that's why I couldn't see any difference in the saws.

I've always struggled with cutting small parts to length, even when I had my radial arm saw, as it always seemed like overkill. I've been using a couple of Japanese pull saws for a while, really like them, and decided to make a bench hook for cutting small pieces. All parts are from the scrap bin - offcuts of luan plywood, a piece of cherry for the clamp block and a piece of thicker edge banding for the fence. First photo is the original one that I built - worked OK, but it occurred to me afterwards that the fence would be better behind the sawing direction. The original unit in use, cutting the MDF strips for the grid in my bit storage cabin…

...I buys tools!

During the recent re-arranging of the FULL plane til....one or two planes stayed outside .....needing a bit of work... This just need cleaned up, and the settings up to date...still a little deep...Millers Falls No.9, pre-war Type 2 Next? Well... May have been sitting around a bit too long? Ya think? cleaned up nicely enough (cheap brush with a few drops of 3in1 oil) Need to adjust the frog a bit..otherwise.. The iron is cambered, as this IS a jack plane...Sargent No.3416...old enough that a patent date is on the lateral lever...from 1901 Next...that Stanley No. 8c, type 19 does have a few "iss…

This thing appeared on my doorstep last week... Along with 6 "friends".. Task being that I rehab that #4 and send it back to Gene Howe...Took about an evening in the rehab shop.. Looks a little better? View from the back porch.. Tried out on a slab of Ash lumber....seems to work well enough..will ship this out this week.. Stay tuned..have 6 more to do..

My Grandfather gave me this pair of Klein needle nose pliers right before I shipped off to my first tour in the army. Never used them i just wrapped them up and put in my foot locker. Didn’t want to lose them.

Last fall I picked up an old Stanley #10 for cheap money because it was missing a Chip-breaker. I recently found one non eBay. It's not a great 'Looker' especially with a chunk missing in the throat. With my internet connection down last night I started to work on it putting stripper on the handle and the bed to remove the red paint. and this morning started the clean up It's coming along Ok the worst I see is the low spot in the side and bottom ofd the body and the cutting edge of the blade is way out of square. I didn't bother trying to get all the paint off the tote, all this plane will be is a user.

A Garage sale find earlier this summer....Millers Falls No. 1816 MitreBox and saw.....Paid $1....needed to pull the nails holding the box to an old pine 2 x 8 plank.. Got to looking the saw over....Warranted Superior 4" x 16".....Hmmm, might be worth a rehab? (hide yer eyes, Mabel! ) And.. Shouldn't have to worry about any etch, would have been a silk-screened thing anyway...but...that handle needs ..something... Yeah...right. Traced a better looking pattern, bandsaw to remove the worst areas......Flex-shaft Dremel with several different sanding grit drums....LOTS of sanding dust...check the grip with my hands...…

I'd purchased this drill with a "collection" of other items 3 or 4 years ago.; IIRC I paid $2 for it. Once I brought it home, it took a couple small (10") pipe wrenches to loosen the chuck so I could get the broken drill bit removed. From the damage on the end of the chuck, I'm guessing it wasn't the first time either. Probably explains why the chuck jaw springs were damaged too. Anyways, tossed in a box not sure I'd even attempt to rebuild it. Once the kids were back in school last year, I finally got A Round 2It. It had been used & abused. Perhaps was an early cordless paint mixer? None of the original bits were in the handle, BTW. …