Woodworking Tools

[kadman]

With the internet and access to every corner of the globe, where would you buy from.

Unfortunately I had no internet when I was a youngster gathering tools. So It was my fathers tools,
and the local shop was my source. So I had a comprehensive kit before global access kicked in.
And i prefer the quality of the older tools, instead of Aldi Lidl budget stuff. Budget stuff is fine, if you regard it as such.
It wont perform like a top class tool. Just try sharpening an Aldi carving chisel.

My main source if I am topping up on tools is, car boot sales. Amazing tools that no one wants, and cheap to boot.
Best purchase was a Disston rip saw 32" I think. Its a cast blade beauty, cost me a fiver

[490808]

Not been to one in years but another vote for car boot sales. I've a good selection of older Stanley and Record tools all from CBS.

[kadman]

I dddo notice one or two tool specialists at the car booters, and their prices do reflect a higher value in line with
collectors prices alright. But there are still bargains to be had.

I also buy a few from different online auctions, but less and less. Unless its an absolute bargain as in the coopers and coachmakers tools.
Must admit I also got caught up in an auction frenzy for a large collection of woodworking books from a college in NI.
But I held firm, and got them

[490808]

I did quite well years back when the Greater London Council was wound up. A lot of tools from schools ended up at CBS even got two creuset saucepans the GLC (stamped in the handles) from one of their cookery labs £4 each iirc.

The local school got rid a lot of good tools in a sale and I picked up a load of really nice almost unused stuff for next to nothing gave away a good few of the bits I paid next to nothing for. Think I got 4 record miter markers (can't remember the correct name) for €2 so gave 3 of them away. No one at the sale knew what they were.

[kadman]

Scribing gauge, or mortice gauge.

[kadman]

I did quite well years back when the Greater London Council was wound up. A lot of tools from schools ended up at CBS even got two creuset saucepans the GLC (stamped in the handles) from one of their cookery labs £4 each iirc.

The local school got rid a lot of good tools in a sale and I picked up a load of really nice almost unused stuff for next to nothing gave away a good few of the bits I paid next to nothing for. Think I got 4 record miter markers (can't remember the correct name) for €2 so gave 3 of them away. No one at the sale knew what they were.

Cookery labs.....Jaysus sounds like Breaking Bad master class.

[490808]

Scribing gauge, or mortice gauge.

I'll dig it out (or look it up in an old catalog) its a cast metal frame that has an accurate miter machined into the casting put it on the wood mark the miter out them cut by hand.

To save me taking a photo of it I found a picture here my bad its Marples not Record.

Plus a linked picture

[kadman]

I'll dig it out (or look it up in an old catalog) its a cast metal frame that has an accurate miter machined into the casting put it on the wood mark the miter out them cut by hand.

To save me taking a photo of it I found a picture here my bad its Marples not Record.

Nice bit of kit. Those kind of sales are rare enough now, lucky capture tho.

[490808]

Now going back to your original question without doubt I'd like to buy a load of traditional Japanese tools and try them out.

But to be honest its battery powered tools by DeWalt and others that get the most use here.

[490808]

Nice bit of kit. Those kind of sales are rare enough now, lucky capture tho.

Funnily enough its so well made its more handy for checking for square timber. The inside right angle seems quite accurately machined.

When I'm shedmaking with a pile of treated timber its handy sometimes to pick timber with at least one good square edge and that tool is a lot neater to check with than a carpenter's square. In fact I hardly use a proper square anymore and keep a couple of cheap plastic roofing squares on the bench.

For regular use I like tools that don't suffer too much from our damp weather as I work in an open sided barn and its all to common for me to come in for tea and forget to go out and put tools away. Result is rust on anything decent, so I have a good set of tools I hardly use that are well wrapped up and protected and a working set that are a little more bomb proof.

[tangy]

Just try sharpening an Aldi carving chisel.

I'd love to try, but I've never seen carving chisels or gouges in Aldi. I should've looked harder

[kadman]

I'd love to try, but I've never seen carving chisels or gouges in Aldi. I should've looked harder

Anyone who brings an aldi chisel in here should get a flogging with a cat'o'ninetails,
and then banned.

Aldi steel....perish the thought

[tangy]

I was just trying to think what Aldi hand tools I've got:

- a hacksaw, which is only used for butchery. The original blade is about ready for replacing.
- a dinky socket set, which is great for odd jobs
- a set of hook tools, which have been useful
- a wooden Continental style jack plane, which I haven't used and forget why I bought

I reckon that lot's been value.

[490808]

I was just trying to think what Aldi hand tools I've got:

- a hacksaw, which is only used for butchery. The original blade is about ready for replacing.
- a dinky socket set, which is great for odd jobs
- a set of hook tools, which have been useful
- a wooden Continental style jack plane, which I haven't used and forget why I bought

I reckon that lot's been value.

A lot of base model smoothing planes were often bought for planing the bottom of a door when new carpet was fitted - back when people went from lino to fitted carpets. At least thats how I think a lot used to end up in car boot sales.

[tangy]

A lot of base model smoothing planes were often bought for planing the bottom of a door when new carpet was fitted - back when people went from lino to fitted carpets. At least thats how I think a lot used to end up in car boot sales.

And now everyone's going from fitted carpets to wood floors I grew up with floorboards, and I'm not going back

This is the type of plane I meant:

[490808]

I did see that one, I can even set one of those accurately, I was tempted but but having got rid of a load of planes I decided I really didn't need another.

[kadman]

I must admit tho the lure of nice new shiny wood material has a lot to answer for in impulse buys for tools.

I get it hard pass by any tools in a car booter, if they are good quality olden's

[kadman]

A couple of boot sale purchases at the right money. And a brace that I had to have at an auction,
which was the last auction I brought her too.......................jaysus can they shout when they're mad

[tangy]

Great haul, but the brazen bit especially. Worth the loudness

[kadman]

Great haul, but the brazen bit especially. Worth the loudness

It was but there was an echo for a long time
Its amazing what you can find out there, things that people throw out, and replace them with cheap old tat.

[490808]

You've not developed deafness yet?

[kadman]

You've not developed deafness yet?

SSSSssshhh..............she might be listening.
Any I could take her in the second..................if i survive round one.

[JayZeus]

I've somehow ended up buying a Lamello Top 21 tonight. Whatever about questions the wife might have for me, I really have to stop listening to Fine Woodworking. I was happy out with my old Freud/Trend/Casals JS102 (or whatever) but then I heard Mike Farrington talking a lot of sense, or so it seemed. Got a smashing deal on a 10 year old, lightly used machine with provenance (receipt, owners manual, original box etc) and now I'm wondering what I can find to do with it this weekend to cut down on some of the questioning. I think a new dining table project might commence in a hurry.

[kadman]

I've somehow ended up buying a Lamello Top 21 tonight. Whatever about questions the wife might have for me, I really have to stop listening to Fine Woodworking. I was happy out with my old Freud/Trend/Casals JS102 (or whatever) but then I heard Mike Farrington talking a lot of sense, or so it seemed. Got a smashing deal on a 10 year old, lightly used machine with provenance (receipt, owners manual, original box etc) and now I'm wondering what I can find to do with it this weekend to cut down on some of the questioning. I think a new dining table project might commence in a hurry.

Gaw on you coward.....tell her whos boss

Funny thing on the fine woodworking...I bought a full set of 6 hardback volumes in the boot sale, was a fiver.
I suppose you can never have too many tools, its an addiction thing at this stage.

[JayZeus]

Ah here, it's only tip of the iceberg stuff. There's a Senco 23 gauge headless pinner on the way to join a Senco SLS18-M stapler which arrived today. I've a spare Fein charger leaving Germany tomorrow. I'm eyeing up a couple more Festool Sortainers on eBay and as soon as I can get the new Festool OF1010 REBQ router, I'll have one of those too.

At the same time, I'm mostly replacing more basic tools I've used for years and which I'm now in the position where I can get away with some upgrades. Mostly because of greatly reduced travel costs related to working from home for the most part for the past 18 months and no holiday expenses either. Every cloud has a silver lining and all that.

One upside to putting everything in Systainers and moving them around constantly is that it's a bit harder for her to know what just turned up and what's been here for a good while already. A nailer is a nailer, a drill is a drill, a saw is a saw.. Until they end up sitting there together when it becomes very easy to put 1 + 1 together. That's a simple equation that interferes greatly with my man-maths.