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I am having a lot of fun with this site so I decided to share two of my completed projects. The first is an old boot box that I picked up for $10. I cleaned the wood, sanded, stained and finished it off with spar varnish. I fabricated the cushion to fit the top of the box and now we have a nice window seat. The second is a handmade mahogany and brass fishing reel from the 1800's. When I received the reel it was cracked, stained and the brass was covered with a thick coat of verdigris. Some of the wood was dry rotted so I had to stabilize the wood to make it as strong as the surrounding wood. I used git-rot to fix the problem. I fixed the crack in the wood with gorilla wood glue and after a long cure I cleaned the wood with a mix of BLO and pure turpentine. I use this mix because it does not harm the old wood fibers. When all was said and done I put the reel on an old restored rod and made her ready to fish.
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Just perusing the net this morning before work, and I stumbled across this vacuum hose reel. Of course we could make our own, but to see the pro model demoed is fun. Here is their website: Fast Cap Super Reel I have no horse in the game, just showing and telling.
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Still cleaning my shop guys! Ya I know, been on this adventure for three weekends now and I am still finding items of great interest in the dark reccesses of my humble abode. Many years ago, I came back from my duty station in the Army on a two week leave, during those two weeks I helped Dad on a few woodworking projects and we pulled out this Craftsman 100' tape to measure something, I think we were doing some layout for some garden trellis or something, and during our work a screw came lose, the whole thing came apart and the tape jumped out and landed in a big heap of a tangled mess, it is a steel tape so it was just a big springy mess on the ground. He was ready to trash it on the spot, it was his Dad's, so the tape goes back a bit in family history, though I am not sure how old it is exactly. But I saved it from doom, I jumped on it and told Dad to back off! It can be saved! Well, I rolled up the steel tape on itself, and put the tape and the case into a plastic bag with the hopes of reviving a bit of family history later on. So yesterday, about 25 years later I came across this old plastic bag, with the tape still in it. It was still jacked up, and I was in the mindset yesterday to sit down in my patio, spread the tape out, and figure out how to put this back in it's case and get the wind up crank to work again. I got the tape back in ok, the wind up mech works but I am still missing something that holds the mechanism in place, but at least the tape is home and happy now. I love this old tool, it's in primo condition, and ol grandad owned it, so it's even more special. It is well made, Made in the USA, Sears and Roebuck, when Sears was great. It still even has the original plastic case. I love it, because when you see the tape in the case, it looks all messed up, old and tattered, but when you pop the cover off the case, a jewel is residing inside, kind of like a pearl in an oyster. Oh yes, and did I mention the case is covered in leather!
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