compulsive hoarder

[Alf]

You've only got a problem when you can stumble across a box of planes that you'd forgotten about.

Oh crivens. #-o

 

[Racers]

Hi,

I have a big old wooden toolbox full of planes, in the lounge and some on display and I use a plane as a doorstop!

Pete

 

[Scouse]

I have a big old wooden toolbox full of planes, in the lounge and some on display and I use a plane as a doorstop!

I don't have the big toolbox full of planes, but I do have a couple on display and one holding the living room door open...

There are a couple of ex-army ammo boxes with plane and drill bits in, but they don't count because the lids still shut... :-"

 

[Benchwayze]

I have a big old wooden toolbox full of planes, in the lounge and some on display and I use a plane as a doorstop!

I don't have the big toolbox full of planes, but I do have a couple on display and one holding the living room door open...

There are a couple of ex-army ammo boxes with plane and drill bits in, but they don't count because the lids still shut... :-"

My old dad made bundles of firewood from old ammo boxes. He had access to a supply of them made from pitch pine. Much prized as kindling in those days, for obvious reasons. Packaged together with bands cut from car inner-tubes, a penny a bundle was a nice little earner for the time. I know, because I had to deliver the bliddy bundles to the local ironmongers!

John

 

[woodbloke]

... a nice little earner...
John

Something like this...

...I expect John :lol: - Rob

 

[Benchwayze]

Nahhh! Better than that. The pile of boxes was enormous! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Scouse]

There was an ammo box at the boot sale yesterday, but opening it up revealed a complete and working ex-army mine-sweeping metal detector, with a Geiger counter thrown in for good measure. Tried to convince 'er-indoors that we really needed one, but she was having none of it!

Women...it's like they are from another planet :roll: :mrgreen:

 

[jimi43]

There was an ammo box at the boot sale yesterday, but opening it up revealed a complete and working ex-army mine-sweeping metal detector, with a Geiger counter thrown in for good measure. Tried to convince 'er-indoors that we really needed one, but she was having none of it!

Women...it's like they are from another planet :roll: :mrgreen:

I'd have bought that and sod the divorce proceedings!

WOW! I can't believe you didn't buy that...what if we have riots in the cities and a nuclear attack...then where will you be! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Jim

 

[DTR]

There was an ammo box at the boot sale yesterday, but opening it up revealed a complete and working ex-army mine-sweeping metal detector, with a Geiger counter thrown in for good measure. Tried to convince 'er-indoors that we really needed one, but she was having none of it!

Women...it's like they are from another planet :roll: :mrgreen:

I'd have bought that and sod the divorce proceedings!

WOW! I can't believe you didn't buy that...what if we have riots in the cities and a nuclear attack...then where will you be! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Jim

My missus would probably be egging me on unless she had the money to buy it herself! :lol:

 

[ghart33]

To have such a collection is only to be proud...

 

[alan2001]

There was an ammo box at the boot sale yesterday, but opening it up revealed a complete and working ex-army mine-sweeping metal detector, with a Geiger counter thrown in for good measure. Tried to convince 'er-indoors that we really needed one, but she was having none of it!

Women...it's like they are from another planet :roll: :mrgreen:

Oh wow - was it a 'Radiac'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Defe ... r_counters

Cold war geeks will pay a lot of money for those things, I'm sure. Most of the Radiacs that were stockpiled for use in a nuclear attack were decommisioned/scrapped in the 90s.

By the way, it sounds like you need to brush up on your wife-communication skills. Was there really no way to convince her it was something you really needed and was a total bargain? I could have told my wife it was a special tool for sharpening garden tools, and she would have gone for it. :mrgreen:

 

[jimi43]

By the way, it sounds like you need to brush up on your wife-communication skills. Was there really no way to convince her it was something you really needed and was a total bargain? I could have told my wife it was a special tool for sharpening garden tools, and she would have gone for it. :mrgreen:

BRILLIANT!!

Then you can use lines like..."Darling...I'm just off out to water the uraniums!" :mrgreen:

Where's that "coat" smiley?

Jim

 

[Scouse]

To be honest, she wouldn't let me hang round long enough to focus on it let alone find a name.

I'll look out for some coats for Jim on Saturday, he must be running out by now... [-o< :roll: :mrgreen:

 

[condeesteso]

Andy, funny it was only today that I was pondering my growing plane assembly (collection being a bad word in this context). Good heavens, I have a way to go. Very neat too - but the plough is in the wrong place (yours, not mine). On a practical level, please start a thread on woodie molding planes (you have a few) - sharpening and tuning in particular. They seem quite affordable usually, but I bet most just don't get used anymore... which is a shame.

 

[Lons]

By the way, it sounds like you need to brush up on your wife-communication skills. Was there really no way to convince her it was something you really needed and was a total bargain? I could have told my wife it was a special tool for sharpening garden tools, and she would have gone for it. :mrgreen:

I take it you don't let your wife read these threads :lol: :lol:

 

[AndyT]

Andy, funny it was only today that I was pondering my growing plane assembly (collection being a bad word in this context). Good heavens, I have a way to go. Very neat too - but the plough is in the wrong place (yours, not mine). On a practical level, please start a thread on woodie molding planes (you have a few) - sharpening and tuning in particular. They seem quite affordable usually, but I bet most just don't get used anymore... which is a shame.

Nice of you to suggest it Douglas.

I have done a couple of brief ones - one some time ago whose pictures have disappeared and a more recent one here but could have a go at something more step by step and detailed.

Sharpening isn't as hard as you might think unless the last owner was really ham-fisted, and I do get a bit bored by some of the sharpening threads! Top tips: if the shape is correct, concentrate on polishing the back; if you need to sharpen a profile, glue emery paper to a dowel or stick, mount the blade at an angle and 'file' with the stick horizontal. (That's clearer on Alf's site where I first read it - here.)

As for usage, pick them up and try them! In general, start at the far end and work back.
For really good, thought-through advice on using hollows and rounds, read all of Matt Bickford's blog here.
Also, watch Roy Underhill's TV programmes.

So, more to come, some time - but that gives me a bit of a problem - I don't have any moulding planes that I haven't worked on! I'll have to find some more!

 

[alan2001]

^ excellent post, thanks.

I take it you don't let your wife read these threads :lol: :lol:

haha. she only looks at the site when I specifically show her my most fascinating posts, but I suspect she's not really too interested in my old plane or screwdriver restoration projects (although she massively approves of it in principle.) believe it or not she actually thinks I'm a bit of a geek, posting photos of my workshop on here. philistine! :mrgreen:

 

[condeesteso]

Andy - very thorough. have looked at the links briefly... will go back in detail. I am certain they can be got back and become really useful, and it seems there are plenty around. When you say 'start at the far end...' do you mean the bottom of the market (to practice on) or something more subtle?
Basically, write a book!
And I assume that you reckon the plough is in the right place??

 

[AndyT]

Andy - very thorough. have looked at the links briefly... will go back in detail. I am certain they can be got back and become really useful, and it seems there are plenty around. When you say 'start at the far end...' do you mean the bottom of the market (to practice on) or something more subtle?
Basically, write a book!
And I assume that you reckon the plough is in the right place??

Oops - what I meant was, when planing a moulding, start with a short stroke at the far end of the workpiece, and gradually move back, taking longer strokes. This helps define the shape for the sole of the plane to run in, and helps you keep the plane parallel to the work.

And that plough is there just because it was a wide enough, high enough space to store it assembled - the others have been a bit of a problem, and have needed to go in oddly large boxes, or even be stored with the fence detached.

As for writing a book, there are several out there already. Michael Dunbar's "Restoring, Tuning and Using Classic Woodworking Tools" is probably the most thorough - I found my copy online from Oxfam.