Restoring tools

This is a plough plane I picked up at a flea market a couple of weeks ago. It was in pretty good shape, just a bit rusty and dirty. And it had a lacquer on it that I didn’t like, and some parts had dried up glue stuck on them. Other than that, it looked […]

Normally, I buy old, neglected tools and refurbish them. It’s cheap, and it makes me feel like I saved something from going to waste, or even like I conserved a piece of history. Conserving a piece of history can take a lot of elbow grease, though. I don’t use power tools to grind or sand, […]

I bought this stanley #66 beading scraper a while back. It only cost me a couple of euro’s but it was missing its fence and only had one scraper blade included. Otherwise, it was in great shape. I haven’t been able to date the thing exactly, but I read that it was probably made somewhere […]

I’ve been working on a log of oak, on which I will do a blog post soon. The last few days I’ve worked on getting the bark off and getting the outside nice and smooth. I had a couple of restored draw knives to do this but the log is so wide that their handles […]