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A few tips still relevant today.
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Spend $15 and what did I get? The 2 chisels were $5 each...dollar for the Visegrips Finger Clamp pliers..and a dollar for the Cincinnati Tool Co. No.540 c clamp...the folding ruler? Blue Grass No. BG 46 Extension Rule...need to clean up the brass slider. Wide chisel is 1-1/2" wide, the other is "just" 1/4" wide The Blue Grass ruler is to replace the broken Lufkin X46 ruler in the shop... Not too bad of a day?
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I ran into a friend of mine the other morning and he called me over to his vehicle. When I got there he said he had something to show me. Out came this really nice Stanley No. 84 Boxwood Ruler. The Stanley No. 84 is a 2 foot four fold ruler with drafting scales. It has brass square joint and is brass bound on the edge. And folded all the way out. This No. 84 was made between 1920 and 1922. Dating is by the Sweetheart Logo. The heart goes up into the notched ruler and the letters get smaller in the middle. This trademark was adopted in 1920 after the merger of The Stanley Works and the Rule and Level. The company held a contest to design a new trademark and guidelines were published defining the features the new mark should have. The contest was open to all Stanley employees. 320 contestants submitted 521 designs and the final two were nearly identical and were submitted by W.L.Hagen and E.C. Hartman. The two were declared co-winners and we have was became know as the famous Sweetheart trademark. Stanley Works adopted the Heart with SW inside in honor of William H. Hart, the chief executive officer for more than thirty years. It was only used two year and it went through another alteration which lasted until 1935 when the trademark was changed to the notched rule with the word STANLEY inside and that is the one still in use today. I was so thankful he called me over to see this super nice rule. After drooling over it for several minutes, he said he got it for me and that is was mine. WOW! Thank You Thank You was all I could say.
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This piece of leather came in a box of tools I acquired a couple years ago, I thought it was just a piece of leather the man who owned it before was practicing on. I was two seconds from throwing it away when I saw a piece of metal sticking out of one end. This is what's been in it this whole time!
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The Click Rule, Great for Woodworkers, and the Visually Impaired
John Morris posted a topic in Hand Tools
Our good friend and veteran Mark Wilson sent in an image of a wonderful shop aid that he received from the fine folks at Hines VA Center For the Blind gave him, it's a click rule. And it is a wonderful measuring device that is used widely in the shops of the visually impaired, the measuring uses are endless with this handy little device and the construction, fit and finish appear to be top quality. See image below If you look at it, it is a very robust and strong story stick. Seems like it would make a great addition to anyone shop whether you are visually impaired or not. Here is a quote from Mark Wilson below. "I thought maybe you and the guys might be interested in the click rule. The Hines Blind Center has given me them to help me measure. They are also handy to set router bit height and move the fence on the router table quickly in increments of 1/16" or more. Also good on table saw setting fence but always remember if you measure from outside of blade add a 1/8" for kerf. Here's a website were they sell it but you maybe able to find it else where." Mark Wilson Thank you Mark!!!! Great heads up man!- 4 replies
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He nearly had me convinced.
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center finding: ("Thales Theorem") take your ruler and place zero inches on one edge.... move the ruler diagonally across the piece till you read a number at the other edge easily divisible by two... divide... that number is is the center... find it on the ruler and make your mark... to find that IRL measure of center... measure from the edge to the mark w/ the ruler perpendicular to the edge... no measure... say the stock is 3/4" thick/wide... put a 3/4" fostner bit in the DP.. slide the fence up to the bit and lock it down... presto... center of stock all done... finding spacing... Do your diagonal measure only instead of dividing by 2 divide by the number of pieces you want... example.. you want 5 pieces from stock 12±'' wide... diagonal measure 15'' and divide by 5.. quotient is 3... every 3'' make your mark.. (3, 6, 9, 12).. center finding ruler... lay the ruler on the piece and shift left or right till the measures are the same to both edges... mark the zero...
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Saturday night I went to an auction, haven’t been in a while. Had no plans to buy anything just looking to get out of the house and shop for a bit. Upon arriving and and starting to look things over I see this display box with three boxwood rulers. I have a love of these old rulers and have a problem passing them up. Further examination revealed a ruler that I had never seen before. At first glance I thought it was a wooden zig zag ruler, but picking it up, I found it to be a sliding wood ruler. The sections slide out instead of folding. The other two I have seen and had one like the middle one. I didn’t have a No 771 which is the top one. Both of them are Lufkin rulers. So so now is where the bottom is interesting, it is stamped N.Y.C Appro and below that X-4. It is also marked outside and on the others side it is marked Inside. It is also stamped “made in USA”. I have googled most everything and haven’t found this particular ruler. I found a similar one made by Interpole and with a number 106. This is one has two patent dates on it, 12/13/1910 and 7/29/1913. So so far I have searched them all and haven’t found the maker. I believe it is a Lufkin but I’m not positive. Anyway it seems to be a nice find and the first boxwood sliding ruler I’ve seen. I just love this old stuff!
