Helping my daughter build her Red Maple table in 2018. Lots of custom tool making including a gigantic pencil sharpener!
I’m really appreciating being able to slowly move some of my older videos from YouTube to @MakerTube — my negative feelings for corporate social media are just accelerating.
#MakingTools Ages ago I bought a DuMore handheld grinder with a large collection of 1/8” carbide grinding bits on Craigslist (like a Foredom tool without the flexible shaft). Made this sharp carbide punch with one I broke w/abrasive cylinders of different grits on drill press.
It’s very very hard, impressively sharp, and if used carefully can make little dimples in harder steel for starting holes. Also great for scratching lines in harder steel.
@bellowingtimber I’ve recently posted two things you might enjoy tagged #MakingTools — they happen to be tools for woodworking. Am planning to keep posting to this tag intermittently.
#MakingTools: A couple years ago I helped my daughter build a table out of rough lumber we milled. We decided the legs would in effect be tapered pins at the top and be glued into matching tapered holes in the cleats that ran crossways. So I made a giant tapered reamer out of Hophornbeam and cut an unused jointer plane knife in half and ground them into scrapers. Of course I also had to make the matching giant pencil-sharpener too. This is about the reamer, details in alt text. #WoodWorking
#MakingTools Modified a screwdriver to make installing threaded inserts easier. First ground off the threads and cut off the head off a 1/4-20 socket-head cap screw. Then brazed it into a mating notch I cut into the end of a flat bladed screwdriver.
