Since I am reading through WORK magazine to find all the nuggets and projects, I thought I’d give some of the “Home-Made Tools” a shot. If you are inclined as I am, the tiny hand drawings are too little to go by. There are very few dimensions given in either the drawings or the text. […]
Category Archives: Research
Black Brothers Patent Clamp
AKA “And you thought handscrews were simple” For the most part clamps are simple. There is the occasional innovation, but for the most part any style of clamp is interchangeable with any other of the same type. Perhaps the best example is in handscrews. There are really two types: wood thread and metal thread with […]
WORK the magazine: Mandatory Reading for Woodworking Inclined Makers*
*I should first apologize for the buzz-word phrase, but some articles I’m including are not just on furniture or woodwork but tools and other techniques. Also, it would be nice if someone under thirty visited this blog, other than the author. Finally, it’s used in the second article from the first issue, so I am […]
How to remove Google watermarks from Public Domain scans
First, to be clear I am in no way trying criticize Google or insinuate that somehow the “Digitized by Google” watermarks are inappropriate or unethical. Maybe unnecessary though. Certainly, I’m most appreciative of Google’s funding for digitization, their hosting and providing free access to, their contribution to archive.org and the providing of searchable metadata through […]
File-making section from The Circle of Mechanical Arts
From the File-Making section of Circle of the Mechanical Arts: PDF: circle-of-the-mechanical-arts_file-section_re-set We shall introduce this article with some admirable observations on the progress of mechanical discovery, exemplified in an account of machines for cutting files, by Mr. Wm. Nicholson. “The folly and consequent distress of pursuing experiments in chemistry, for the sole purpose of […]