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Turning using the traditional cutting techique. In the era of muscle powered lathes and super-expensive or non existant sandpaper no turner could afford to scrape when he could avoid it. Using the old style round shanked skew and the bowl hook. Two very useful turning tools which most modern...

Boatbuilding on Sollerön, Dalarna, Sweden. Spoon carving in Sweden. She uses the drawknife significantly more and the knife less than the oldtimers did but otherwise she sticks closely to the tradition. Maybe she has hurt her wrist at some point in life and wants to put less strain on it...

Looks like a very good saw for anyone who has the space.

Making a copy of a 19th century chair. Sweden

That looks like a fairly ordinary wooden compass plane. Made to a variety of curves for various uses. Most old ones had a front horn.

Ski making in Finland

Too lightweight for longline sinker anyway.

More: -Whitling with knife and axe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNkKOdmxwOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNkKOdmxwOs -Spoon carving in Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkI9sl9D2s0 -Chair making in Bollebygd, Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYm89pDkO8w

Some youtube videos on older woodworking methods and traditional products: -The use of a skottbenk, a traditional Norwegian method for shooting straight edges accurately by hand -Chairmaking in Budal, Norway -Making a traditional reindeer sled in Karasjohka on the border between Norway and...

Basements work all right if the house is on a hill or at a minimum stands on well drained soil high above the highest water level anyone has ever heard of in the last 300 years. In other cases basements are highly unsuitable. If your site is well drained enough to build a basement it would still...

I have made saw handles from birch. One cannot make such delicate lam's tongues as with appewood and other valuable hardwoods but birch is perfectly adequate if it is reasonably slow grown. Rowan should also be suitable. It is harder than birch.

To my knowledge it is as useless as a tool ever can be. However there might be some use for it which is unknown to me.

Not a single tarantula in sight...... and you missed them so you had to go?

They have a good reputation but that is all I know. Looks like a sensible and very capable machine to me. I have quite a bit of experiece of other SCM machinery of the l'Invincible and Casadei series and they are generally well made and well designed for full time professional use though they...

Looks lik a good bandsaw as far as I can see but Metalclad is unknown to me.

This is my metal shaper as it stands awaiting rebuild

Isn't it pretty much impossible to get a tolerable gear tooth profile with a vertical mill? At least I have been told so. You need eithera horizontal mill or a metal shaper for cutting gear teeth as far as I know. Plus a good dividing head and a lathe for making the mandrels onto which the gear...

Something secondhand?

D may be a scribing divider of the sort you use for fitting floor boards or ship planking. Not sure though without taking a closer look. J is a sailmaker's palm

I collect useful materials and parts and tools. Everybody needs a spare engine and spare gearbox for the car don't we? Everybody needs a few tons of mild steel materials don't we? Everybody needs a lorry load or two of sawn timber don't we? Some of the more odd things found in my stashes: -A...