Building a Simple Nut Driver Rack for a New Metric Set
Hand Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My First Metric Set Christmas Gift from my Future Brother in Law ━━…
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Vintage Trimo & Roxco Pipe Wrenches Restored
George
Tool Restoration A Couple Old Wrenches Good As New Two little pipe wrenches, a century of history, …
Bathroom Update 2023 - Part 7
GBS
Decor A New Vignette The great bathroom update of 2023 began in spring and finally came to an end i…
A Simple DIY Screwdriver Rack for Pegboard
GBS
Workshop Askew /adjective/ - not in a straight or level position. One scrap of wood, a few holes, …
H.D. Smith Auto Body Hammer Restoration: Bringing a Vintage Tool Back to Life
George
Tool Restoration H.D. Smith & Co . Sometimes all an old tool needs is a little patience, a new …
My Drills: A Lifetime of Holes, Projects, and Memories
GBS
My Tools A Non-Collection Collection The tools changed over the years, but each one earned its plac…
Back Porch Exterior Cleanup
GBS
Pressure Wash One Thing Leads To Another I'm going to try and keep this short. The facts are s…
Bathroom Update 2023 - Part 6
GBS
Remodel Done! Well, it's been a little while, but the bathroom refresh is finally complete. In…
Bathroom Update 2023 - Part 5
George
Details Working Through The Punch List This is one of my favorite parts of a project. The heavy wo…
Bathroom Update 2023 - Part 4
GBS
Installation Wallpaper! When we last we met, the bathroom had been completely prepped for wallpaper…
Bathroom Update 2023 - Part 3
George
Prep Work Corners, Stanchions & Sizing I'm a little tardy writing this post. As a matter of…
Wiss 18" Shears Restoration
George
Tool Restoration A Gift from Uncle Mike A thoughtful gift, a little rust, and another satisfying af…
A New Snow Blower for 173!
George
Equipment The Troy-Bilt 2600 With summer wrapping up and Halloween stuff having been in the stores …
Enlarged Plane Rack
GBS
Made at 173 The Way Things Happen This is another one of those projects that sat in my "Drafts…
Dad's Barcalo Lineman's Pliers: Restoring a Family Tool
George
My Tools A Simple Restoration A well-used pair of vintage Barcalo lineman's pliers reminds me t…
Completing My Combination Square
GBS
Restoration Another Inherited Tool One inherited attachment finally completed a tool that's bee…
From Estate Sale Stool to Garden Plant Stand: An Easy Repurposing Project
GBS
Repurposing A Piece for Holding Planters An old five-dollar estate sale stool spent years waiting f…
Sidewalk Edger Restoration: The Old Tool I Didn't Know I Needed
GBS
Restoration Sometimes the old ways still work best, especially when they're easier on the knees…
Garden Bench Restoration 2022
GBS
Made at 173 Much like the post wrapping up the fence replacements from 2022, this post is about an…
Basement Landing Light Replacement: Keeping It Simple at House 173
GBS
Shorts Sometimes the smallest repairs bring the greatest peace of mind. A Flicker Gets Your Attenti…
Fence Replacement Wrap-up Post (a year late)
GBS
Fences Finishing the Backyard Fence Project at House 173 A year later, it's finally time to fin…
Changing My Own Watch Batteries (And Why I'll Never Pay $50 Again)
GBS
A 173 Short There is peace in the simplest of things. - me A rainy afternoon, a handful of tiny bat…
Cyd Through the Years: The Story of House 173's Garden Gargoyle
GBS
A 173 Short 173's Grotesque (Gargoyle) Some garden ornaments are simply decorations. Others bec…
Found Photos: First Front Porch Remodel
GBS
Front Porch Photos From the Year 2000 Old photographs rediscovered more than 25 years later capture…
A Back Porch Mirror With Old-House Character
GBS
Legacy Project From an Inherited Cabinet Door A vintage mirror brings more light, depth, and old-h…
The Shed Cleanup 2023
GBS
Short Post A Place for Everything A few hours of organizing, a little trimming, and one orange snow…
The Shed Remodel Megapost | Complete Backyard Shed Transformation
GBS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FROM A MISGUIDED TREE PLANTING TO A SIMPLE STICK-BUILT SHED AND A BEAUTIFUL …
Restoring My Dad's 1948 RIDGID Pipe Wrench
GBS
Vintage Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VINTAGE 14" RIGID SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE MADE BY 1948 ━━━━━━━…
Bathroom Update 2023 - Part 2
GBS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sheetrock done Mudding done Sanding done (mostly) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The bat…
Bathroom Update 2023 - Part 1
GBS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ First update since 2002 - good start! Nice electric changes - outlets and ligh…
Replacing the Basement Windows: One of 173's First Major Projects
GBS
Windows A Legacy Project ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Taking a look back at one of our First major projects…
Short Post: Personalizing an Inexpensive Hammer
George
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE 16 OUNCE STANLEY STHT51456 TOTALLY UNNECESSARY PURCHASE MY VERY FIRST RIP …
Cleaning Up a Vintage Buck Bros. Block Plane
GBS
Hand Planes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Buck Bros. 7" Block plane A simple cleanup ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━…
Sargent No. 93 Saw Vise Restoration
GBS
Hand Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dad's saws need sharpening Welcome Sargent #93 9 1/2" jaws…
1884 Stanley No. 7 Jointer Plane Restoration
George
Planes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Another Stanley plane 1884 Type 4 No. 7 A treasure inherited ━━━━━━━━━━…
A Craftsman Tool Chest at 173 - Finally!
GBS
The Workshop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Craftsman 2000 Series 26" Wide x 36.5" High Model #CMST…
My Very First Anvil!
GBS
My Tools Central Forge 15 Pound Tool restoration finally gives me an excuse to buy my first anvil..…
Bridgeport Tomahawk Jr. Crate Tool Cleanup: A Forgotten Multi-Tool Returns
George
Tool Restoration More of a Cleanup I Suppose A rusty little crate tool inherited from an old toolbo…
Vintage Lakeside Saw Restoration: Saving a Montgomery Ward Classic
George
Lakeside Tools Model 84-20 Once sold through Montgomery Ward catalogs, this Lakeside Model 84-20 pr…