Chainsaw on a Stick: A Quick Pole Saw Tune-Up
Puttering A Tuneup A few damaged drive links, one small file, and a favorite tool ready to trim ano…
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Changing My Own Watch Batteries (And Why I'll Never Pay $50 Again)
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A 173 Short There is peace in the simplest of things. - me A rainy afternoon, a handful of tiny bat…
Restoring My Dad's 1948 RIDGID Pipe Wrench
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Vintage Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VINTAGE 14" RIGID SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE MADE BY 1948 ━━━━━━━…
Sargent No. 93 Saw Vise Restoration
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Hand Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dad's saws need sharpening Welcome Sargent #93 9 1/2" jaws…
My Very First Anvil!
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My Tools Central Forge 15 Pound Can you believe it? A man, of a certain age, and this is my first …
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…
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…
Restoring My Dad's 1929 RIDGID Pipe Wrench
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Vintage Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VINTAGE 10" RIGID SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE MADE IN 1929 ━━━━━━━…
Stanley Defiance Plane Restoration: Giving a DIY Classic New Life
George
An Early Stanley DIY'er Tool Built for farmers and do-it-yourselfers during hard times, this ol…
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…
My Bench Vise: The Most Dependable Tool in the Shop
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Craftsman 506-51865 It isn't flashy or complicated, but this old Craftsman vise has been one of…
Tubular Steel Hammer Cleanup
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Kinda Like Dad's Old Hammer But not quite. This hammer was another find at The Tool Shed . I …
Plane Sharpening and Just Plain Rambling
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Inexpensive Stanley Plane Sharpened Every now and again I remind everyone that the primary purpos…
Made at 173: Marking Gauge
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A Scrap Wood Project Mikhail Baryshnikov, that great ballet dancer from the 1970s, once said, "…
Legacy Project: The Living Room
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Interior From White Walls to Warm Tuscany Looking back at the renovation that transformed the heart…
The Dining Room Built-In: Coming Along Nicely
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Just under a week ago I posted that the details had, at long last, begun! At that time I had t…