Wadkin PK restoration finished (just about)

[markturner]

Hi, you may remember I posted a while back a link to the canadian woodworking vintage power tools forum where both myself and wallace hang out - it's Grand Wadkin central.

I never managed to re post all the descriptions etc from my restoration over here, but you can read the full story there at: https://forum.canadianwoodworking.com/s ... -London-UK

But as I have just about finished it, I thought you old iron fans here might want to see a condensed version and some shots of the finished article: ( Cant guarantee they are all in the correct order, but you will get the jist...)

So it went from this:








Via this:












To be continued.........

 

[markturner]

Some more....

 

[markturner]

To This:





















Then to this:

 

[markturner]

And this:

 

[markturner]

And finally:














Phew.....I think I just got RSI in my fingers posting that....

Hope you all enjoy the fruits of very many hours hard work

 

[Slinger]

Brilliant restoration, really well done. If only I had the room (& the patience & ability).
Slinger

 

[Ring]

Wow looks the muts nuts well done =D> =D>

 

[Ed Bray]

Absolutely fantastic, a great job and I suspect that you will get all the more satisfaction from it every time you use it.

 

[blackrodd]

Absolutely brilliant! I learnt my trade on good, solid stuff like this.
Many thanks for the brilliant pics.
The guy who taught me, 80, now, will be very interested!
Regards Rodders

 

[wallace]

Looking good mark. Have you got a nice crown guard to top it all off

 

[Harbo]

Great work

Rod

 

[markturner]

Hi , thanks for the comments, I have a crown guard that is pretty nice on the new saw I brought, which I will probably use for now. More pictures when fitted, rgds

 

[Woodmonkey]

It's a beauty, would love to have a go at something like this of I had the time and space (and skill)

 

[Mike.S]

It's a beauty, would love to have a go at something like this of I had the time and space (and skill)

+1

 

[markturner]

Added some fences made of rosewood and brass:









I know I posted these in the what did you last make thread, but figured they needed to be here as well....

 

[rileytoolworks]

WOW.

 

[markturner]

By the way, Adam ( Rileytoolworks) made the lovely handle on the side of the sliding table, so big thanks to him for helping realize my dream of getting this saw to look like this.

 

[heimlaga]

What a saw!..... and a very fine restoration at that.

 

[wallace]

I'm liking the rosewood and brass touch. I was going to make a fence that attached to the quadrant and incorporated a flip stop and a hold down for keeping stuff secure when cutting. Whats next on the restoration list?

 

[markturner]

I had ideas of incorporating a flip stop and making it bit more "jackified", but lack the facilties to really do it justice. It, s somewhat frustrating
and I am keen to start teaching myself some metalworking to fill this gap. Next on my shopping list is a small lathe and a milling machine!

I have the saw I brought from seaward to work on next, although the problem is, I wont want to sell it.....good job, I just took on another unit in my street, so at least I have the space.