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For many dents I use the hot iron and wet towel trick. It’s great! For filling work I have used Durhams Water putty. Used it to add fillets to wood casting patterns. Comes as a powder and mixes with water. It’s a great general purpose filler. Been around for over 80 years and not as messy as...

I have never used pre mix hide glue as I don’t trust it. It may be the same but I am not sure. White glue and water are mixed to make “sizing”. It is used like paint to prepare a surface for glidding with leaf metal like gold. As a result I call stray squeeze out as having a “sizing effect”...

Hide glue is the traditional glue before the PVA glues came out. It is known as a revers-able glue in that you can take it apart with steam and hot water. It should be used only when doing repairs to valuable antiques. Fish glue has been used for small repairs such as a splintered edge. Rabbit...

Just knocked out my interpretation of a gerstner tool box to store my Starrett metal working tools. The box is quarter sawn white oak salvaged from a highway project. The drawers feature half blind finger joints as they are to narrow to get more than about one dovetail in them. The walnut was...

My ex stole my LN chisels and a Bridgecity CT-6 hand drill. I found my shop a mess. Tools everywhere. It’s time to get them organized and secure! So my first project was to build my interpretation of a gerstner tool box to hold my Starrett machine tools. The build videos will be uploaded to...

So what does that mean? I assume your catching fish now?

When I was in college, we rented a house. There were six of living there. The neighbors were a bit stuck up and everyone planted apple trees for the blossoms but no one planted pollinators to keep the trees from having apples. The deer would invade the neighborhood if there were apples to eat...

The old craftsmen bought the best tools they could afford. And some were painful. A good plane could cost a week or more in wages. Many tools were passed down from others like relatives. But some tools were handmade for a particular job. Some antique English chisels simply have no comparison...

Well that just stinks! I have always used 3-1 oil cuz it’s great oil. A fine very well refined oil. Even use a drop on the inner hole of shaper cutters to make the slide neatly over the spindle. Mine are still metal tins which I like.This plastic nonsense is killing us! Now plastic bits we eat...

Slate is not like most stone. It can be cleaved. But it can also be machined within reason. Sinks are made by bolting sections together. You can drill it and tap it. Makes some of the best counter tops as well.

Some of you gents talked about record power warranties. Years ago, a mate of mine who is a lawyer explained this to me. A Warranty is nothing more than an indemnification contract by a manufacturer against future legal actions that might arise, esp. class action lawsuits. Its limits legal...

Hey Mark, Is your RU a 12 in model or the bigger RU model? Clearly its not the RUH which is a jurasic beast.

For 100 to 300 pounders, its worth the risk. The machine is old, cast iron and built like a battlewagon. Dealing with spares is like anything in the old world. Keep doubleboosts number handy if your in england. The motor appears to be direct drive to the chisel. So it could be a replacement...

The corregations save a massive amount of time in set up. Setting knives in my tennoer head is a time consuming task requiring the use of set up jig and indicators. Setting up a molder for S4S using corregated heads takes me less than 15 minutes to set and check all FOUR heads. I have used...

Not really. While you may see some flatening of your corregations, they have the clearances of a class 3 thread or worse and have rounded tops like threads. Most modern blocks use a wedge to hold the cutter in place. The corregatons are more for alignment than anything else. I have actually...

Do you need corregated knife stock? No. The wedge system will hold the knife just fine. But I am lazy. The corregated feature allows you to quickly back set one knife from the other knife. Done by eye without the use of a setup jig and indicators. Often I had to setup the molder for S4S, then...

How does one mount a 30 mm cutter on a 1.25 inch spindle? T bushes are useful for going the other way. Many of my 30 mm insert heads were used on my old german shaper. Now I have 1.25 inch old world olivers.... TWO OF THEM and they are both cone heads. So I machined new spindles for the Oliver...

My last shop had a dedicated toolroom and we did grind some knives. But the labor costs add up and we often found it cheaper to use a dedicated tool vendor to grind knives. We emailed the .dwg files to CG Schmidt in New Jersey and within 48 hours, Fedex dropped off the knives. When we did grind...

Making your own cutters is an art form in itself. While there are many over the counter options, you need to do a cost performance analysis of why your doing this. My two shapers are vintage Oliver 287 shapers. These do not support metric cutters. So I have had to make spindles for these...

I saw a squirrel eat a rotten pumpkin used for Halloween decor on a porch. Fermented was more like it. Poor squirrel was drunk. He tried several times to climb a tree but kept falling over backwards. I had to laugh. I used to have a pet Albert grey squirrel. Raised from baby with closed eyes...