Restoring a Vintage Webbing Stretcher Upholstery Tool
Tool Restoration ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Nearly a Century Old Likely Homemade ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A s…
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Building Better Tool Storage: Growing the Workshop One Board at a Time
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The Workshop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A Couple New Shelves Two New Tool Boards Time to Reorganize ━━━━━…
1918 Sargent Plane Restoration
George
Tool Restoration Sargent - Tools Of The Master Craftsman ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My first Sargent plan…
Restoring a Vintage Miti-Mite Magnetic Base Lamp
George
Tool Restoration For Me - A Unique Tool! A forgotten machinist's magnetic-base lamp gets a comp…
Restoring a Vintage Buck Brothers Chisel
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Tool Restoration A 173 Short Not every restoration needs to look brand new, sometimes the goal is s…
Cleaning Up a Stanley No. 76 Combination Marking Gauge
George
Tool Restoration A Hundred Years Old Sometimes preserving history means knowing when not to restore…
Vintage Bailey No. 5 Plane Restoration Done!
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My Inherited 1918 Stanley When last we met , the Stanley Bailey #5 plane had been cleaned (it was a…
Vintage Bailey No. 5 Plane Restoration Part 1
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STANLEY BAILEY NO. 5 TYPE 11 MADE BETWEEN 1910 AND 1918 THE JACK OF ALL TRADES…
Vintage Tool Haul: Two Toolboxes Full of History
George
A House 173 Short ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FORMER BOSS' GRANDFATHER'S TOOLS I TAKE 'EM OR T…
Inherited Breast Drill Refurbishment: Bringing an Old Workshop Tool Back to Life
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ JP FLEMING CO. WORCESTER, MA EGGBEATER STYLE BREAST DRILL INHERITED FROM THE M…
The Kitchen Megapost
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The Whole Story in One Place ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REMODEL NEARLY 20 YEARS OVERDUE MEGAPOST 4 YEARS …
Restoring My Dad's 1929 RIDGID Pipe Wrench
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Vintage Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VINTAGE 10" RIGID SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE MADE IN 1929 ━━━━━━━…
Stanley No. 199 Utility Knife Customization
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A Stanley Classic Since 1936 Not quite a restoration, not quite a modification - just a little unne…
Compass Saw Refurb
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A Fine Yard Sale Find About a year ago I stopped at a rummage sale and picked up three saws for $1 …
Replacing the Old Fences: Part 4
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The Back Fence First - a little disclaimer: This part of the fence was actually completed as far …
A New Potting Bench for the Backyard at House 173
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Made at 173 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANA WHITE DESIGN TWO FEET BY FOUR FEET ABOUT A HUNDRED BUCKS ━━━━━…
My Wagner Paint Sprayer
George
The Flexio 590 I don't like painting. At all. But, when you own a house, painting just become…
Replacing the Old Fences: Part 3
George
The South Fence By the end of May (oh how fast the months roll on!) the east, west and north side …
Garden Tunnels and Childhood Trails at House 173
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Ramblings Just a Little Rambling A simple opening beneath a shrub became an unexpected reminder of …
Replacing the Old Fences: Part 2
George
Significant Progress! When we left off a couple weeks ago, the front yard fence was up and a lot o…
Replacing the Old Fences: The Start
George
At long last, 173 is undergoing an actual project! And you know - it's an amazing reminder of …
The Shed Hammer - A 173 Quick Post
George
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RELEGATED TO SHED 20-SOME YEARS JUST USED FOR YARDS AND GARDENS A POSTERITY PO…
Vintage Stanley No. 993 Corner Brace Restoration
George
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE STANLEY NO.993 WITH TEN-INCH SWEEP HANDLES AND HEADS MADE OF COCOBOLO …
A Few Small Workshop Improvements That Made a Big Difference
George
Workshop New Lights and Tool Racks Sometimes the smallest improvements are the ones you appreciate …
Hand-Cranked Bench Grinder Restoration
George
No Brand Found - But Hey Sometimes the most satisfying restorations start with a tool nobody else w…