1 hour ago, HandyDan said:

Without the sawdust I see some real ankle biters there.  I like how you set up your daughter's lathe but really man run a wire over and get her a light bulb.  I have a lantern looks like the one on the right.  Bought it new.  Been a lot of years since I used it.

I have never hit them, perhaps because they are almost always out of sight!  😜. The wheels were desperately needed and these were a quick throw together that has become somewhat permanent.  Hope to get the lathe a decanted spot in the shop but real estate is pretty premium currently

@Bundoman nice light up. I sold off most of my collect a few years back but they pop up here and there and I still have to pick them up.

 

There is a fellow onFeeBay, from Millersburg, OH (Amish Country area) that sells a LOT of those lanterns, and all the fixings for them....Holmes County area....

54 minutes ago, Bundoman said:

I have a local Ace Hardware that usually has a few packs of mantles

Thanks Brent. Didn't even think about ours. Long established family owned business that has even purchased inventories of other like businesses. Knowledgeable staff too. Downside isles are extremely tight, shelves, racks etc.are packed so stuff is often hard to locate and most things are pricey, but when you can't find it elsewhere they usually have it...if they can find it.

 

I don't use my latern like we did 40 years ago camping and all. Battery powered LED lights have replaced them but the nostalgia with them is cool. I remember dad using his when we would go fishing at night. I was probably 4 or 5 y/o when he got it???

Visiting AZ in '14 I was gifted an inoperable lantern with a cracked glass. Tenting it in Mammoth Hot Springs MT a few weeks later, the campground host dropped his shovel to come get the lantern when I offered. Didn't know they were so collectable!

I've spent the last two days refinishing this Stanley #78 Rabbeting Plane or Rebating Plane if you're in England.

I just watched a bunch of videos on how to use this plane and tomorrow I'll give it a try.

This plane is going to get used a lot more than I thought it would.

Very well done @frenchwwr. Excellent rescue sir.. Looking forward to see how it performs when called to duty.

3 hours ago, frenchwwr said:

This plane is going to get used a lot more than I thought it would.

I bet you will! Wow, that came out great! 

9 hours ago, Dovetail said:

I bet you will! Wow, that came out great! 

 

I'll X2 that!

18 hours ago, frenchwwr said:

@Bundoman nice light up. I sold off most of my collect a few years back but they pop up here and there and I still have to pick them up.

 

Thank you.  I have long been a tool hoarder which “I get!”  I don’t really know what happened with the lantern thing, however!  Like so many, I grew up around them.  Couldn’t have imagined how much fun getting them going again would turn out to be.  Now, they keep multiplying!  Must be something about playing with 🔥!  
😁

20 hours ago, HandyDan said:

 I like how you set up your daughter's lathe but really man run a wire over and get her a light bulb.  

1 hour ago, Bundoman said:

Thank you.  I have long been a tool hoarder which “I get!”  I don’t really know what happened with the lantern thing, however!  Like so many, I grew up around them.  Couldn’t have imagined how much fun getting them going again would turn out to be.  Now, they keep multiplying!  Must be something about playing with 🔥!  
😁

I hear you, I find them cheap or even free stoves/lanterns all over the place and can't pass them up. Last year I bought a double burner stove for $5 and took it to the Allagash River in Maine for a week of canoeing wo/having to do anything more than clean out the rats nest and pour in gas.

 

"You can never have too many tools, unless the pile is so big it falls on you and kills you"

1 hour ago, Gene Howe said:

So you think there may be a compatibility issues between these fire makers and the wood chips?😜😜😜😜

5 hours ago, frenchwwr said:

I hear you, I find them cheap or even free stoves/lanterns all over the place and can't pass them up. Last year I bought a double burner stove for $5 and took it to the Allagash River in Maine for a week of canoeing wo/having to do anything more than clean out the rats nest and pour in gas.

 

"You can never have too many tools, unless the pile is so big it falls on you and kills you"

 

7 hours ago, Bundoman said:

Thank you.  I have long been a tool hoarder which “I get!”  I don’t really know what happened with the lantern thing, however!  Like so many, I grew up around them.  Couldn’t have imagined how much fun getting them going again would turn out to be.  Now, they keep multiplying!  Must be something about playing with 🔥!  
😁

Must be a Renaissance revival cult following for the lanterns and stoves. New episode of American Pickers last night, Mike and Robbie were on a pick in the desert. They uncovered several, NOS, in original boxes, Coleman lanterns. They paid up for them so assuming they would try to double their money, their resale prices would be $70-$125. Being "vintage" might add a few more bucks.

It was just last summer I packed up a lot of my camping gear (which hasn't been used in the last 12 years) including 1 of the "vintage" Coleman gas laterns, another that was LP, and my old camp stove along with a basket of odds and ends (including some "vintage" mantles) and donated it to the Habitat store. Such is life, I guess.

This morning I read yet another 'how to' article and have been just now going back over my card scrapers. Much success! Entirely removing the old burr / hook might be the trick?

 

The first was ok, the second really nice, and I just redid the first from scratch, and it is as nice as the second. Fretting over storage method; the knife guy said you never let your knives clatter together; it's probably the same for scrapers. Guess for now I'll stand them up in the corner of a shelf.

 

Several more to go but there's still time.

 

https://www.woodcraft.com/blog_entries/sharpen-a-scraper-and-put-it-to-work-turn-a-hook-and-watch-the-shavings-fly

1 hour ago, Dovetail said:

. Fretting over storage method; the knife guy said you never let your knives clatter together; it's probably the same for scrapers. Guess for now I'll stand them up in the corner of a shelf.

I keep mine in a drawer laying in slots in a piece of Kaizen foam

9 hours ago, Dovetail said:

Fretting over storage method; the knife guy said you never let your knives clatter together; it's probably the same for scrapers. Guess for now I'll stand them up in the corner of a shelf.

 

Buy a roll of 1/4" (or even 3/16") clear vinyl tubing like THIS. Carefully slit one side with a utility knife. Then you can just slide it over the edge(s). Secure with tape or rubber band. Works for saw blades too depending on diameter you choose.

This scraper was an emergency purchase for on-the-road woodworking - the patching of an old table after an ancient in-place recessed sewing machine was removed. It came with its own nice case. So I guess the consensus is not to let the edges get nicked up.

 

This one was dressed yesterday but I did it again from scratch today. It comes out better if I do not overthink the process. It's also faster!

 

Parts is parts..

And...once cleaned up and oiled..

Turns into a 1/2" Cordless drill

2 speeds, at that.  

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