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Thread: What is your most used, self made tool?

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    What is your most used, self made tool?

    Here's a couple of planes I've made.
    The bodies were one piece bronze rough castings from St.James Bay.
    Does this count as shop made ?
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    They look great! And since you made every thing other than the casting, I think it count! Do they work great? Was it hard to bring the rough casting to the beautifull finish product you have? Was it a lot of work to make every thing square and flat?
    thank you for sharing!

  5. Lots of great tools here, more then enough for me to fry my keyboard with drool! If anyone would like to have their work featured in a gallery at the Hand Tool Makers site, drop me a line and I'll create one for you.

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    I don't know if this counts...

    This shop made tool gets a lot of use but I didn't make it, my Grandfather did. It's made of osage orange or "hedge apple" and the blade is just a length cut from a band saw bland.
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    realy nice saw and i wish i could put my hands on some of that wood!

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    re. Osage Orange

    David, it is a dream to work with hand tools, hard and extremely dense but it cuts like butter with a sharp blade. It also has great elasticity, once heated it can be bent tightly and will hold the shape after it cools. I saw my Grandfather heat a 1/4" by 2" strip maybe three feet long over the shop stove and twist the center section like a cork screw without splitting.

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    Probably the reason it was used and still used today to make bows!!
    One day I will get some!

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Gendron View Post
    realy nice saw and i wish i could put my hands on some of that wood!
    I get most of mine from M@G Sawmill, near Huntsville Texas.

    Every once in a while someone cuts down a tree of it around here, so I am always watching for it. I have established almost a hundred of the trees, but they are not yet twice my height.

    I followed the old timer method for making a hedge, rot the horse apples till spring, spread the slurry in a ditch you dug for the purpose, water the ditch when needed for the first three years.

    The plan is to get a bit of wood from it and make an old time hedge, horse high, hog tight and bull tough. Besides, I owe the trees a few children after all the osage I have made shavings out of.

    Bob

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    Way to go Bob! But I'm sure the Osage wont grow in my neck off the wood!

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