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Handplaning. When the sawhorse keeps moving you have to sit on it 😂🏡⚒️
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Today’s project in the shop is making screws. This is an M3-0.5 screw, about a half-inch long. The nut got chewed up holding it in the vise, which is fine, since it will be embedded in epoxy. And worst case, I can make one new nut.

I’ll need to hammer heads onto the brass stock first, since that process would wreck the threads, and I’ll probably make 8, since I need 4 good finished ones, and cutting the slot in the head (after threading) is a risky operation (pic 2). #MetalWorking #HandTools

An M3-0.5 screw, with approximately a half inch threaded, and screwed into a nut, which shows many small dings from the jaws of a vise. The finish on everything is very rough.

A slot cut into a head formed on a piece of brass bar stock. The slot is visibly off-center, and it looks as though it will snap if torqued very hard.

Triển lãm Quốc tế Ngũ kim và Dụng cụ cầm tay Việt Nam (VHHE 2025) sắp diễn ra, quy tụ 380 doanh nghiệp từ 15 quốc gia với hơn 450 gian hàng.

Đây là cơ hội để khám phá các sản phẩm phong phú trong lĩnh vực sản xuất, cơ khí, xây dựng và DIY.

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#Vietnam #Exhibition #Hardware #HandTools #Manufacturing #Construction #VHHE2025

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Hand tools vent. Maybe this will save someone some grief and #expense if they find it with a search.

Wiha - great drivers & bits. Love 'em. Well-machined, good tough tool #steel.

But their needlenose pliers? Rubbish. I have a set of full-sized needlenose, plus their "micro" set. With both of them there's too much slop in the joint, so the jaws are never quite aligned. I don't recall if they were bad right out of the packaging, but I certainly noticed it within the first handful of usages. I have the full sized "standard" / linesman-type pliers as well, but you don't tend to notice slop because of the much shorter jaws.

Wiha's micro-needlenose pliers are no better than - or even noticeably worse than - #cheap #Chinesium ones I have.

Save your money.

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Would it be considered weird, if someone brought home three (3) old yankee screwdrivers from the thrift store?

Asking for a friend. 😬

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I decided to add a pullout bottom to the firewood box so it’s easy to clean (inspired by @GustavinoBevilacqua ). When it’s closed up, you don’t notice it’s there (unless you’re looking closely). It’s pretty much done, except for the hours of card scraping and finishing. #woodworking #handtools

Cherry firewood box still under construction with clamps on it; with pullout box on the bottom to easily remove debris

Here is a photo of one of my working area with some of my tools for splitting:
Two steel splitting wedges with wooden attachments (Stubai, with custom ash wood extension, longer than the custom ones)
Halder/Simplex with malleable cast iron head and hard plastic inserts and self-made ash handle. After two years of intensive use, I managed to break off my handle at the top. The handle was still long enough, so I turned the handle upside down and taped the broken side.
Large mallet (for rough work and when the wedges are more difficult to drive in or get stuck, for splitting stones as well)
Three axes, one of which is a splitting axe (Fiskars).
Two shingle irons (the small one is a very old one from our own barn inventory).

#handmade #handsplitted #heartwood #hardwork #woodwork #arollapine #pine #wood #handtools #woodworkingtools #workingtools #sustainability

The photo shows a workstation with split Swiss pine wood. The wood lies lengthwise on two cut logs. Two wedges are driven into the wood. Next to it are work tools, such as three axes, a shingle iron, a hammer with a malleable iron head and hard plastic inserts, and a mallet. In the background, there is a stone area, firewood with many other pieces of wood, as well as parts of a grazed autumn

Started working on a small cherry firewood box for the home. Almost ready to start with the joinery after completing the prep of the panels. I’m going to go with mortises and tenons for this one. I thought about through tenons, but think I’ll just go with hidden joints here. This will have curved sides, which will be fun to make. #woodworking #handtools

the cherry wood parts of a new firewood box layed out on the floor

After multiple times of wanting to use the plough plane and getting into the problem illustrated in the first picture, I finally invested two evenings and made an adjustable jig to hold slim stock for plough planing. Robert Weaving calls this a "sticking board" in his book "The Solution at Hand"; an additional nail through the planing stop to hold the stock in place is optional.
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Problem: a thin rail, only about 4 cm wide, is held on the workbench with a clamp, and the plough plane is intended to make a groove or rabbet along its long edge. However, the clamp is in the way of the plough plane, especially because the two rods holding the fence are sticking out of the plane into the part of the board that is not being worked on.

The sticking board consists of three boards of plywood: a large board can be held on the workbench with clamps so that the clamps are not in the way. On top of it, a long board with two perpendicular, elongated slots can be fixed to the sub-board with two knob screws as an adjustable fence for different widths of stock. At the left end, another small piece of plywood serves as a planing stop for the stock.

Sticking board in use, demonstrating that the clamps (and the two knob screws holding the long fence) are well out of the way of the plough plane fence rods.

Completed the outdoor shoe rack, looks much nicer than the plastic tray we were using before — finally thought of something interesting to do with the small piece of teak taking up room in my shop. #woodworking #handtools

Teak boot rack on a porch with boots and sandals on it

Taking on a smaller, fun project: using a small slab of teak I picked up at an offcut sale many years ago to make an outdoor mat for shoes and boots. #handtools #woodworking

Cutting teak into strips in a workshop with a Japanese saw

Completed the hallway linen closet door. The top and bottom are open for airflow, as it’s used for bedding. Most interesting parts to me are the repurposed chair top used for the curve, embedded magnets to keep it closed, and I cut the grooves in the frame to house the cherry plywood panels by hand with as small as a lip as possible (about 1/8th of an inch). #handtools #woodworking

A handmade door covering up a narrow closet

Cutting the mortises for the hinges to hang the closest door I’m making. I always find this process a bit frightening. #woodworking #handtools

Making mortises for butt hinges with hand tools on a workbench

Working on a long, narrow door to cover a narrow closet in our house where we keep sheets for bedding. The closet has a curved top. I’m using parts of a chair I got at a thrift store that perfectly matches this curve and plan to veneer it. We want to allow for air flow so this seems like a good solution. #handtools #woodworking

I finally built myself a simple plane till to get them off a wire and onto my french cleat wall.
How long until this angle stops making me nervous? 😅
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Several handplanes organized on a sloped rack hanging from some french cleats.

Breaking down a sheet of cherry plywood with hand tools isn’t easy, but it’s mostly figuring out how to hold the work in place. #woodworking #handtools

A plywood sheet on table with woodworking tools on a blue floor surface, adjacent to an open doorway leading outside.

I completed my midcentury cherry cabinet, made with zero power tools. Here it is in place. The top sides are half blind dovetails, the base full dovetails. The door panels are 3/8 inch thick and slide along grooves. I’m pleased with how it turned out. #woodworking #handtools

One of the sliding doors are fit in the mid-century cabinet project, one more to go and then on to the feet. #handtools #woodworking

Sliding door fit on a partially assembled TV stand cabinet

Years ago, a friend gave me an old wooden filing cabinet that was missing one of its side panels. Yesterday, I finally got around to converting it into a mobile tool caddy I can easily move around the shop. #woodworking #handtools

old wooden storage cabinet converted to hold chisels and other tools

I finished resawing the boards for one of the doors for the cabinet - I’m guessing this would take less than an hour or so with a bandsaw? It took me most of the day. I used a ryoba saw and had excellent results. My arm is spent. #woodworking #handtools

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