What is your most used, self made tool?

[Peter Bell]

I hope the Mods on this site appreciate the quality of all these photos and the thread is not lost in time.

i suggest it should be a keeper and added to the library or as a " Sticky ".

[harry strasil]

I beat you too the punch Peter, My Demo Shop is all Antiques or Hand Made Tools and the whole mobile shop is in this trailer.





Its a real joy to me to go to living history and steam shows and let the modern people see what the tools of yesterday were like and also to show them how they were used.

[Derek Cohen]

Here are a few more ...

Chip carving knives (a gift I made for Galootaclaus a few years back) ..





My favourite dovetail gauge (1:7) .. "the dovetailed dovetail gauge" (a joke!) ..



Fibonacci gauge (in Tasmanaina Blackwood, my favourite wood) ...



... with handmade brass rivets



Another Galootaclaus gift ....





At one stage I made a lot of these brass dovetail gauges for gifts and sold a bunch as well ... (1:5 through 1;8)



Stairsaw ..



Small crosscut saw ...



Plane setting hammer ... mine alongside Dave's.



Must go ... more at a later time ...

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Peter Bell]

I beat you too the punch Peter, My Demo Shop is all Antiques or Hand Made Tools and the whole mobile shop is in this trailer.





Its a real joy to me to go to living history and steam shows and let the modern people see what the tools of yesterday were like and also to show them how they were used.

Harry, I would expect nothing less from someone who comes from a long list of famous Nebraskans and places.

Boys Town
The kellogs Corporation
Warren Buffett
Omaha Beach
Airforce one hiding place at the Strategic Command Headquarters
Omaha Steaks

Let's see what more I can add. I know, one Harry Strasil.

They even have a fair tennis player Andy Roddick. How's that information from someone in Australia. Off the top of my head and not researched by Google.

O dear, I almost forgot the most important of all. ' The Huskers ' The University football team based in Lincoln.

" Go Big Red "

Peter

[harry strasil]

Omaha beach is on the coast of france, I have never had an Omaha steak, and I don't care for football, LOL I did have a daughter that went on a Lookinglass flight when she was in Civil Air Patrol, Looking Glass is/was the 24/7 airborne command post out of Strategic Air Command "Offut" at Omaha.

[Jim Nardi]

I have several home made plane blades.

[Harlan Barnhart]

I have several home made plane blades.

Really? How? From what?

[Peter Bell]

Really? How? From what?

Yep. Loosen the lips and do tell us.

This thread could take us anywhere.

Peter.

[Ray Gardiner]

Wow Harry, amazing trailer you've got there.. I can imagine the fond memories you must have of doing demo's around the country.

Very impressive

Regards
Ray

[David Gendron]

This is unbeleavable! I just started in woodworking a year ago and using only handtools in my little 10x10 shop. I made a few of my own tools like mallet, shoothing board, planeing jack. Of course a banch and now I'm working on a Krenov style plane, it should be done by the end of the week end, I try to post pictures!
Like someone said, this is the best thread ever!!
Thank you

[Aled Dafis]

My most used shopmade tool is probably a neck and neck battle between my Small smoothing plane



and my recently completed Large smoother



However, my favourite has to be the small shoulder plane, it's so handy for tickling joints into shape.



Cheers

Aled

[Derek Cohen]

Hi Aled

Nice work on your planes.

That small smoother of yours looks very familiar!

Here is mine (and unique I thought) ...



Regards from Perth

Derek

[Aled Dafis]

Thanks Derek, I'd like to return the compliment, your plane also looks lovely. I do think that your plane looks more authoritive though, with that MASSIVE iron.

Although both planes look very similar, there are a number of differences, the largest being that mine is fully dovetailed, whereas I believe that yours is screwed/peined. I'm currently working (well, i'm not actually working as much as I'd like on it, my family and day job keep getting in the way) on a version of this plane that I'm going to make available as a kit in the not too distant future.

My large smoother is screwed/peined and I must admit that I found that method quite frustrating. I broke two taps in the sole of my first attempt, so had to bin it - O1 steel is a bugger to cut threads in, and I believe that I may have been using cheap chinese taps . At the time I vowed never to build a plane using this method ever again, but I'm now begining to re-consider the idea and am looking for a tapping tool on e-bay, and using standard Mild steel as opposed to O1, we'll see how it goes.

Carry on with the good work Derek, you certainly set the bar for the rest of us.

Cheers

Aled

[Matt Evans]

Aled, I would like to see more pictures of that rebate plane, if you have them. . .

Could be the resolution on my monitor, but I can't tell precisely how it was put together.

[Aled Dafis]

Aled, I would like to see more pictures of that rebate plane, if you have them. . .

Could be the resolution on my monitor, but I can't tell precisely how it was put together.

Check out my website, there are full details of the plane on there, and if you'd like a PDF of the assembly instructions, I'd be more than happy to e-mail them to you.

http://www.infillplane.co.uk

Cheers

Aled