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Chainsaw on a Stick

Puttering A Tuneup Earlier this year, the cherry tree in the Devil's strip got knocked about by…

Dad's Utica 39-7 Diagonals

Tool Restoration Dad's Old Cutters Over the years my dad gave me a number of tools, with his cl…

$20 Tool Haul

Ramblings Sometimes Life's About Timing The thing about not having a project going on the house…

My Hand Drills

My Tools A Non-Collection Collection What can be simpler than a drill?  I mean besides a hammer, a …

A New Snow Blower for 173!

Equipment The Troy-Bilt 2600 With summer wrapping up and Halloween stuff having been in the stores …

Dad's Barcalo Linesman Pliers

My Tools A Simple Restoration Over the years my dad gave me a number of tools, with his classic Sta…

1948 Pipe Wrench Restoration

Vintage Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VINTAGE 14" RIGID SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE  MADE BY 1948 ━━━━━━━…

My Very First Anvil!

My Tools Central Forge 15 Pound Can you believe it?  A man, of a certain age, and this is my first …

1929 Rigid Pipe Wrench Restoration

Vintage Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VINTAGE 10" RIGID SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE  MADE IN 1929 ━━━━━━━…

Stanley No.199 Resto?

A Stanley Classic Since 1936 I'm not sure this can be called a restoration.  After all, Meriam-…

Compass Saw Refurb

A Fine Yard Sale Find About a year ago I stopped at a rummage sale and picked up three saws for $1 …

My Wagner Paint Sprayer

The Flexio 590 I don't like painting.  At all.  But, when you own a house, painting just become…

The Shed Hammer - A 173 Quick Post

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RELEGATED TO SHED 20-SOME YEARS JUST USED FOR YARDS AND GARDENS A POSTERITY PO…

Vintage Stanley Corner Brace Resto

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE STANLEY NO.993 WITH  TEN-INCH SWEEP  HANDLES AND  HEADS MADE OF COCOBOLO …

A Couple Minor Workshop Updates

New Lights and Tool Racks So, here we are - the first month of the new year has already zipped on b…

Making a Workbench Hammer

A Stubby Hammer from a $4 Ball Peen ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 16 OZ BALL PEEN HAMMER WITH 4 PIECES WOODE…

My Bench Vise

Craftsman 506-51865 No matter how many tools someone has, there's always one or two (maybe more…

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