Showing posts with label gets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gets. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
The MWA Gets By With A Little Help From Our Friends At Woodtalk Show
Wood Talk did the Modern Woodworkers Association a big favor by helping to promote the MWA teams for the Fine Woodworking Live Build Off.
 |
| Yep, these guys want the online community to rock. |
In their most recent episode, #141 - Quality Control Is Boring!, Marc mentioned our build off.
Like us, they want to demonstrate how thriving the online woodworking community is. Were looking to show everyone by assembling a number of four (4) person teams for the Fine Woodworking Live Build Off. Our goal is to not only have online woodworkers win, but to have them play a major role in the build off so that everyone in attendance at Fine Woodworking Live learns of the community and the fun we have.
If youll be at Fine Woodworking Live on Friday Night, August 9th, please joing us for the build off. You can sign up below. Youll make some furniture, meet some friends and have some fun.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Number 12 gets a touch up
What would you do the night before the last exam of your degree program?
Restore a tool?
What a coincidence, me too.
I went back to my parents house this past weekend for the first time in over a year. Between their house and their furniture they live among quite a lot of wood. I found myself unable to ignore the construction of most everything I came across during my stay there. They have accumulating a number of older objects from their own parents things, among them a tool chest that has been passed down from father to son along my fathers line. This past visit wasnt the first time I had seen this chest or its content at my folks home, but I guess Ive learned quite a bit about old hand tools since my last examination. I knew what pretty much everything was. Take this beast, for example:
It was not too long ago that I would have had no idea what in the world this was, so I was quite proud of myself for knowing a scraper plane when I saw one. This is a Stanley #12 Scraper Plane. According to the Stanley Bible, this tool is no younger than 63 years old, but probably older. It is missing its handle and scraper blade, but the handle is easily made and the scraper is cheaply procured.
So I wrapped it in an old shirt and flew it back down to Tucker for a little TLC. I was shocked TSA didnt hassle me.
I made pretty good progress on the body tonight:
I got the vast majority of rust off it and polished the brass up a little bit too. Im probably going to replace those nasty screws that hold the handle on--at least they werent stripped Philips. Well see the making of a new handle in the coming days.
Until then, wish me luck tomorrow at 11:30.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)