Stanley Defiance Plane Restoration: Giving a DIY Classic New Life
An Early Stanley DIY'er Tool Built for farmers and do-it-yourselfers during hard times, this ol…
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The First Christmas With a Mantel
GBS
One Picture A Place for The Bookworm The year the new built-in finally became part of Christmas at …
Snow Sled Rebuild Megapost: Restoring a Vintage Wooden Sled
George
A 2019 Project ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ UNKNOWN MANUFACTURER ORIGINAL BUILD DATE 1936(ish) NEIGHBOR TO…
Vintage Cee Tee 10-Inch Pliers Restoration
George
Tool Restoration A Trademark of Crescent Tool Co. A $1.50 flea market find leads to the history of …
Tool Storage and the Workshop Tool Board
George
Renewal Long Past Due A long-overdue cleanup transforms the workshop tool board while preserving pi…
The Speedy Basin Wrench Resto
George
From the Chicago Specialty Mfg Co An obscure old plumbing wrench gets a new handle, its original re…
Restoring a Vintage Montgomery Ward Powr-Kraft Ball Peen Hammer
George
Vintage Tools How Many Tool Lines Did They Have? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MONTGOMERY WARDS' POWR-KR…
A New Bathroom Sink Faucet
GBS
First New One in Nearly 24 Years A leaking faucet, several trips to Lowe’s, and one supposedly simp…
The Basement Remodel Megapost
George
A Full Seven Years Later I've had this megapost in mind for at least a year or so, not that fiv…
Wards Master Quality Linesman Pliers Refurbishment
George
Wards Master Quality Pliers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MONTGOMERY WARDS MASTER QUALITY DIRECT COMPETITOR …
Cobbled Nut Driver Set!
George
Salvage, Mergers and Acquisitions For some nearly 25 years now I've had exactly two nut drivers…
Restoring a $1 Great Neck Backsaw
George
A Great Rummage Sale Find! A rusty rummage sale find becomes one of the handiest saws in the worksh…
Salvaging a Small Parts Storage Chest
George
One Man's Trash... Built by unknown hands decades ago, this little storage chest still had plen…
Fancy (?) Handled Ball-Peen Hammer
George
The Second of my New Ball Peens A plain Amazon hammer gets a traditional hickory handle, a little C…
Salvaging a Rip Saw
George
From Trash to Treasure! It seems I'm suddenly on a run of hand saws. Last weekend I stopped at…
Making a Stubby Workbench Hammer from a $4 Ball Peen
George
A Stubby Hammer from a $4 Ball Peen ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 16 OZ BALL PEEN HAMMER WITH 4 PIECES WOODE…
My Bench Vise: The Most Dependable Tool in the Shop
GBS
Craftsman 506-51865 It isn't flashy or complicated, but this old Craftsman vise has been one of…
Inherited Old Oil Can
George
A Slick Resto A greasy little oil can left behind by the original owners gets cleaned, repaired, pa…
Restoring More Tin Snips
George
This time Crescent and Lakeside Back in April I posted about the Red Devil tin snips I restored.…
Restoring Vintage Channellock 420 Pliers (1963)
George
My 1963 New-Old No. 420 A $1.50 flea-market find, a little family history, and one of America's…
Tubular Steel Hammer Cleanup
GBS
Kinda Like Dad's Old Hammer But not quite. This hammer was another find at The Tool Shed . I …
Vintage Tin Snips Restoration
George
Red Devil No. 271 A $2.50 flea market find, a little shop time, and another forgotten tool ready fo…
How I Built a Homemade Adjustable Wrench Tester
GBS
Some Vices Never Leave A handful of scrap parts and thirty minutes in the workshop produced one sur…
My Lineman's Pliers
George
Serving 173 for more than 20 years! After more than two decades of faithful service, one inexpensiv…
My Bench Grinder
GBS
Central Machinery 1/2 HP Earlier this month, when writing about restoring my paring chisel , I wrot…
Paring Chisel Restoration
George
Wire, Cats, French Mice and Mincemeat For the last year or so, I've enjoyed watching YouTube v…
Buckets, Jars and Miscellanea
George
Sometimes Even the Simplest Things I think it's cool to see how professionals store their jobsi…
Paddle-Style Honing Strop
GBS
This Time Suede Up ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FIRST STROP NOT EXACTLY A FAILURE BUT AFTER LESSONS LEARNE…
Making a Honing Strop
GBS
Kinda, Sorta A piece of salvaged oak, eight dollars’ worth of leather, and a childhood barbershop m…
A Study in Hammers
GBS
Ramblings My Hammers and Mallets The stories, uses, and memories behind the hammers and mallets tha…
Refurbishing Dad's Plane
GBS
The Stanley Bailey No.4 In case I haven't previously mentioned this - my dad has an incredible …
A Couple of My Favorites of Dad's Tools
George
Tools from my Childhood One of the fun things about the " 812 - The Home !" is the flood …
My Oscillating Saw
George
What Did We Do Before These? A few lessons, a free multi-tool, and the techniques I wish I'd le…
My Delta 31-080 Belt/Disc Sander
George
My Tools Inaugural "My Tools" Post The tool I probably use more than I realize, and one I…
A Simple Beam Compass
George
Made at 173 A scrap of hardwood, a pencil, and a few stolen minutes become one more useful workshop…
An Outlet for the Basement Landing
George
Ex Nihilo A simple electrical upgrade creates the perfect charging station for a vacuum, flashlight…