A Day in the LN factory

[wizer]

This is a great watch

http://tinyurl.com/3a9kxuo

 

[Ironballs]

Good video that Tom, thanks

 

[katellwood]

Is the pattern maker at the beginning of the video making a pattern for their version of a stanley 51 shoot plane, it sure looks like it

 

[Ironballs]

I think they were

 

[adidat]

i'm pretty sure he is, having seen one of these in real life i'm very excited

 

[adidat]

too late

 

[adidat]

too late

 

[TheTiddles]

It's like watching a film of a Victorian factory but in colour! Very enjoyable watch

Aidan

 

[wizer]

I couldn't help thinking about where TLN came from, making tools by hand and now he's got a whole foundry and an army of workers. Definitely a deserving owner of a Chufty Badge :lol:

 

[jimi43]

Watching that video...which is absolutely a work of art in itself...leads me to a number of conclusions...

1.) If I had all that kit I could make one of them there tools...

2.) WOW!

3.) Irrespective of the amount of tooling...the amount and skill of hand finishing is incredible....

4.) WOW...WOW!

5.) They are worth twice what they charge for them...

6.) WOW...and DOUBLE WOW!

7.) I want to save every penny I have unitl I get one....

8.) BLINKIN' WOW!!

9.) Nice to see they make the irons in a little kiln like what I does!!!



Nice one Tom....made my day!!

Jim

 

[pedder]

I couldn't help thinking about where TLN came from, making tools by hand

Are you sure? How would you make a bedrock plane by hand? I wonder if the hone every blade like shown.

Cheers Pedder

 

[Philly]

Very enjoyable - to be making tools like that in America in 2010, to this standard, and at the prices they charge, is amazing.
Looking forward to the QS video at a third of the price....... :evil:
Philly

 

[head clansman]

hi tom

thanks for the link , bloody excellent , music not half bad either , I'll watch them all later to night . hc

 

[Karl]

Did anybody else feel their credit card twitching ??????

Nice vid.

Cheers

Karl

 

[squib]

Thankyou, I love mine even more now!

 

[eoinsgaff]

Hmmm I suspect that the foundary was not part of the LN factory. I thought they outsourced that part of their work.

Even before promptling I also thought the first plane being set up for casting was one of those Stanely shooting plane gizmos.

We'll be keeping an eye out for that I'm sure.

Eoin

 

[woodbloke]

Hmmm I suspect that the foundary was not part of the LN factory. I thought they outsourced that part of their work.

Even before promptling I also thought the first plane being set up for casting was one of those Stanely shooting plane gizmos.

We'll be keeping an eye out for that I'm sure.

Eoin

I think you may be right there. To have dedicated foundry facilities on site would require some very heavy duty kit...I fancy the bare castings are made at the foundry and then processed later at TLN's gaff - Rob

 

[jimi43]

What amazed me was the way those country boys lollop that molten bronze buckets around like they were clowns at Billy Smart's!!!

I feel a right fraud getting dressed up like a Ghostbuster just to harden a pidling blade!!!



Jim

 

[AndyT]

A pidling blade Jimi - is that some sort of collectable rural tool? We need pictures!

 

[jimi43]

A pidling blade Jimi - is that some sort of collectable rural tool? We need pictures!

See....very very similar process to mine:

I spelled "piddling" wrong didn't I?

This is a day out in the Low Nosome factory!



Jim