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and here are the other tills, all fit well, no sliding problems despite wear on one or two runners to show that this was much used one other comment - all hinges brass, all screws steel (except for the pulls), no nails/pins except for one reinforced till base, no mods except for removing...

Here's the lid, the till for squares etc and the till for saws. The tills are made from oak sides and a fairly thick light colour tropical wood, mostly dovetails and mitres throughout, and dovetail breadboarding even where it doesn't show like that saw till with room for 6 backsaws and 3 or...

Here's the outside of the chest without lid, already in cellar workshop -sorry lighting is not so good. It was a horribly wet dark day and I took it straight down while I still had the energy - just about at the limit of my strength to do that. It is very much the same brown/maroon colour as...

I struck lucky and have just bought a fine tool chest in Sheffield for £160. I really don't need another, but I couldn't pass this by. Sadly no provenance but will try again on that score -initials on the front O W the only thing to go by so far. I see no O Warrington on the family tree in Ted...

There are a couple of one man tool forgers left in Sheffield as well as the remaining R Sorby, Henry Taylor and Crown operations and Iles not far away in Lincs. But whether they'd make a tool to your spec I don't know. I'm currently modifying an SDS tile ripping chisel bought for under £10...

Yes. I never got why cryo treatment should give results, as many suggested, AFTER usual quench, which fixes a crystal structure and then temper which modifies that in a controlled way. What would the further cool some time later do? Though I can see perfectly well that for some alloys room...

Hey hey, fellows

Ever use swan neck?

Yeah, I have one like that, which is also longer than usual - assumed it was a reject.

mmm, interesting - although I used to think slow growth was always the best wood (I'm obviously not an expert), apparently the toughest ash is very fast growth and the ash handle chisels I have are very wide grain, and certainly not small branch wood, although they could have been fast grown...

And handle? The majority seemed to have been sold with a beech handle, occasionally with ash, but the user rehandled pigstick chisels one finds are almost always with ash or sometimes hickory -- two reasons, I think, one that a length of broken pick axe handle (mostly hickory) makes a great...

I have just been rehandling a hand saw, and while my special punch (originally designed for ???) works fine, the holes I needed are too far from the edge - I understand and tried the nail trick but can't seem to get it to work - I can drill with an arrow point carbide (careful, go very slowly)...

ps there's a post above saying that Garlick (several brand names) were the only trad saw maker left (apart from 'boutique') - when the post was written that was not quite true as Atkinson were very much in business (only a stone's throw away, but very much a different business, employing several...

the example saw worked well despite the pitting but l'd be careful here as a pit near a tooth base can easily lead to the tooth breaking off when setting - then it's start all over again pitting away from the tooth line is, i thnk, just a cosmetic issue where i live it''s still poss with a...

Great project - I hope you know the smallworksop.co.uk section on quick release vices. Looks like you're concentrating on the makers of cast iron cast/ steel vices; of course, for maybe centuries before that were the wrought iron leg vices and wooden vices before that. For the leg vices, many...

I have had both - not much in it, but I prefer the older style Parky. The extra weight is a slight disadvantage when fitting or moving your bench, but when actually working at a bench it adds stability. I think the main reason the ww vices went to round bars was a much simpler and lighter...

Ps like the colour - like an aged Parky red - I think the original bright red used by them, Rededa and others is a bit garish.

Crispy, that's a beaut. well done. James - you live in old vise/vice heartland - Parky in Shipley was the big one but also Entwhistle and Kenyon, also Wilson Riley both Keighley, and in Bradford itself Woodhead Cramp -- all from 1800s -- I also think some of the unnamed heavy duty nonQR...

if You have one, an angle grinder, or notch with the edge of a grinder wheel and then snap off in a vice. Then, if you do have a powered grinder, you can shape the ends etc. Wear protective gear. If you're completely manual, notch with a diamond file or coarse plate, snap in vice and again...

European-type frame saw. Turning saw - maybe if a narrower blade. Staircase saw, ie for sides of long housings, (the treads and risers in the case of stairs, ourselves etc). Don't know name, but similar saw used to make guide cut for ripping.