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. […]
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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 […]
Printing Books with Signatures from Adobe Acrobat, Method 1
I wanted to print a public domain book to read and refer to later. Sometimes it’s fine to peruse a book on the computer, but if you are using as an active reference a hard copy is the way to go. This is the first method in a multi-part series. How many parts? Who knows… […]
Scroll Saw Organizer
I had a stash of scroll saw blades that was slowly growing into a mound. Some of them came in a organizer with plastic tubes which I found a convenient, unfortunately there weren’t enough spaces for all the different blades and some of the tubes were missing. On the hunt for a replacement I found […]
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 […]
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Desmond Stephan and Morgan vise half-nuts
Desmond Stephan vises have come up before and almost always with a request for replacement bronze half-nuts. I’d picked up a Desmond some time ago with the intention of making it my main vise and upon cleaning I was having seconds thoughts about the lifespan of the nut. I was recently cleaning up a Morgan […]