3mm Bevel Edged Chisel - Really?

[Bluekingfisher]

GSH - perhaps I should be offering you the apology, it is however at times difficult to convey the emotion in written form. We are of course all entitled to offer a view or opinion, I can assure you my frustration was not vented toward you.

However, as Jonny W asked for some pictures of owners tools here are some of my improvident collection.

Warning - jacob look away now, you have been warned. 8)

I must say, in order to amass my collection I have had to remortgage the house, sell the family car, send SWMBO out to work full time, make the boy take up part time work while at school, not pay the bills, not take my family on holiday, not put food on the table, don't put money away for a rainy day and not work hard at all. So, I suppose my purchases, some of them I actually use are all wasteful.

hope you like the pics Jonny I even have a few old fettled Stanley planes and a 1/16th chisel.













David

 

[Bluekingfisher]

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

It's the largest private foundation in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_ ... Foundation

The public school system in Memphis received a huge (and ongoing I believe) grant from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Jeeeesus, Ok, bad example :roll: (and why would I compare Bill gates to a collection of woodworking planes anyway)

I note however you never queried my analogy with the cat flap?? or can i assume you are in agreement?

Good to know though you have intimate knowledge of Bill's Finances.

David

I guess. If his foundation's own website and Wikipedia constitute an 'intimate knowledge.'

I had visions of you rattling the Google keys to prove a me wrong. Congrats =D>

 

[G S Haydon]

Wow David! Quite the collection, well cared for too! No need to worry about apologies at all. It is, as you point out, very difficult to have conversations through text when opinions are contrasting.

 

[JonnyW]

Guys I completely agree. My original post came across as quite arrogant and bragish, hence my lame attempt in my second post, to try and convince you all I'm not a complet 'twonk'.

Wow David. Dear God I wish I hadn't asked for photos! I absolutely love your cabinet layout and I may - sorry I will borrow your ideas.

I need to see some more old timers in there though - I can recommend some Bedrocks if you want to sully that nirvana/****ographic collection you have there.

I need to get my act together and start making cases. Such a good way to showcase and have tools to hand. I do believe drawers can be a place tools go to die (see Adam Savage from Myth Busters' workshop).

Thanks for that. Really good to see.

Jonny

 

[Paddy Roxburgh]

I've never really thought I needed/wanted premium tools, my most extravagant hand tool purchase was some Ashley Iles gouges, all my planes and saws are second hand apart from a QS block plane, and they are all able to do what I need them too. That said i have some severe envy when I see your cabinets there David, WOW.
Paddy

 

[JonnyW]

David - just looked on-line at your photobucket photos of your workshop. Words fail me. Quite simply amazing. Your attention to detail is first class. Amazed. That's all I can say.

I love what you've done with your drill press (Strike that remark - I love what you've done with everything!!). I was going to do the same as I have a Clarke press with a mortise attachment. Works a treat but needs refinement - seeing as i'm an occasional mortiser.

Thanks again.

Jonny

 

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

David, that is incredible - not just the array of tools, but the layout and their organisation.

Jacob, you know I tease you in friendship. There Is no malice intended. (Actually, I am truly interested in your music equipment, whatever it is - I'd love to see photos).

I am just an amateur. I am in the fortunate position of not having to justify too hard a tool purchase (or when I build another one). Woodworking is my therapy. On the other hand, I am as stingy as Scrooge in my day job (unless I can get the taxman to fund the purchase). One must not confuse the two. I am both David and Jacob.

I would not use these paring chisels on a jobsite

These are Kiyohisa slicks. They were a three year wait several years ago. Double that now. But what an absolute joy to use!

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[JonnyW]

David, that is incredible - not just the array of tools, but the layout and their organisation.

Jacob, you know I tease you in friendship. There Is no malice intended. (Actually, I am truly interested in your music equipment, whatever it is - I'd love to see photos).

I am just an amateur. I am in the fortunate position of not having to justify too hard a tool purchase (or when I build another one). Woodworking is my therapy. On the other hand, I am as stingy as Scrooge in my day job (unless I can get the taxman to fund the purchase). One must not confuse the two. I am both David and Jacob.

I would not use these paring chisels on a jobsite

These are Kiyohisa slicks. They were a three year wait several years ago. Double that now. But what an absolute joy to use!

Regards from Perth

Derek

Derek - you do know that some things are just not meant to be used (sorry Jacob!). Now get that lid shut before you scratch them!!!

Jonny

 

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

Sorry Jonny .. three years ago I took the slicks out of the nice hand calligraphed ink box by Mr Kiyohisa (who is renouned for this), put the box away, and have been using them as often as possible since then

I like nice tools, but they are still just tools.

Can't have too many chisels ...

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[Trafalgar]

These shop shots put Alan Peters' place to shame.

 

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

These shop shots put Alan Peters' place to shame.

Yeah ... not enough tools on show! :lol:

Page 46 of Alan Peters' book ...

"My eagerness to install machinery .... I had no desire to live in poverty...".

He goes on to list 20 major machines.

Then with regard the chisels - he had all shown here, and more. The only ones he did not have were mortice chisels: "I have no use for mortice chisels or heavy firmer chisels where I cannot use the mortiser".

Now I am also aware that Alan Peters was a serious cyclist in his youth. I do not believe, however, that he had a brewery on the side. So it seems that he had more in common with Jacob than yourself. :lol:

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[Jacob]

....
Jacob, you know I tease you in friendship. There Is no malice intended.

I know I know! I'm used to it anyway

(Actually, I am truly interested in your music equipment, whatever it is - I'd love to see photos). .......

Just odds and ends. Guitars: couple of classical, a Squier strat, a thin semi acoustic/electric, 4 string tenor (aka "baritone ukelele"), 2 steel acoustic. 3 Banjos: backless, fretless and flashy bluegrass type. Bouzouki. Balalaika. Keyboard. Piano. Several mouth organs. Drawers full of recorders all sizes. Bag pipe chanter. Clarinet. Fiddle.
All projects - not a collection, the intention is/was/still is, to play them.
Wondering about an ocarina next.

PS oh and a 7 course lute (gathering dust - must get it out again)

Picked this useful advice up on the net this morning, it could apply similarly to woodwork:
"3 IMPORTANT THINGS: (A) A minimum of 30 minutes of focused practice everyday is essential. (B) You can find good guitars from $100-$400. (C) Your practice and musicality are more important than your guitar."

PPS and percussion sundries - a pair of claves (a demanding woodwork project!), a washboard, castanets, clappers

 

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

Hi Jacob

I am hugely impressed. No idea what an ocarina is, but in Oz an "Ocker" is a guy who in winter wears shorts and long socks with a comb tucked into the top. In summer he is usually found in a blue singlet and rubber thongs with a tinnie in his hand propping up a bar. :lol:

I really am hugely impressed with your range of instruments. Truly. I always wanted to play the guitar - well or bad. I guess I succeeded in bad. Studied classical guitar for a few years. I can still recall the tortured expression on the face of my teacher when I arrived for my lesson ... oh well ..

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[Jacob]

You could tuck an ocarina into your socks, or down the front of your shorts.

It's never too late to start again Derek. I did classical guitar too many years ago but hardly touched in the intervening 40 years. Am now having another go. In fact it's the zeitgeist - seems to be a lot of older people around, realising that if they don't pull their fingers out it'll be too late to become a famous rock star, so you wouldn't be on your own!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I suppose the ocarina will go well with your Jew's harp and your nose flute.

 

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

You could tuck an ocarina into your socks, or down the front of your shorts.
...

The mind boggles ... what do you say when someone asks what you are doing with your hand gyrating down your shorts?

"Just trying for a high C"? :lol:

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[Phil Pascoe]

B flat.

 

[Zeddedhed]

You could tuck an ocarina into your socks, or down the front of your shorts.
...

The mind boggles ... what do you say when someone asks what you are doing with your hand gyrating down your shorts?

"Just trying for a high C"? :lol:

Regards from Perth

Derek

Playing the flute?

 

[Bluekingfisher]

Jonny, Derek - Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated.

I expect like most hobbiest, the hobby can become an obsession, probably true in my case, I have even found myself sitting in meetings at work dreaming of one particular tool or another, completely distracted and miles away from the topic or the discussion in hand. I'll even admit to struggling to retain composure when asked for a response or input.

Anyhoo, my hobby and time spent in the workshop is my sanctuary and haven from all the day to day crap we all have to deal with in our everyday lives. I am quite tidy by nature so having a clean and tidy space makes the free time I spensd woodworking ( and polishing tools lol) that much more enjoyable. And not wasteful in the least.

Jonny - I do, or at least did have a few older tools, Bedrocks included (Only two left) until I dropped one and it broke, taking a chunk out of the wing casting. I had a vision of dropping and breaking these old fragile tools beyond repair so I sold them one by one and bought the ones you see in the pics.

The storge cabs are relatively recent interlopers to my wshop. Until recently the tools found home in the stacked tool chest to the far right in the photos. However, everytime i opened the drawer in a hurry I could hear iron and steel clatter against one another, not a good sound.

I am pleased you like the pics.

David

 

[Bluekingfisher]

Sorry Jonny .. three years ago I took the slicks out of the nice hand calligraphed ink box by Mr Kiyohisa (who is renouned for this), put the box away, and have been using them as often as possible since then

I like nice tools, but they are still just tools.

Can't have too many chisels ...

Regards from Perth

Derek

I note you too are wasteful of your time and money Derek, although, not having too many saws, planes or marking gauges comes a very close second.

David