Another Stool

Bargains

Hi folks, yes more tools. 

I was up early as usual, and off to the car boot sale.

I spent £3!!! on three tools.

A sliding bevel, fancy spokeshave and a Stanley bailey no5 jack plane.

Which I have already fettled.

It just needed a little tlc and a good clean up.

Definitely some bargains this morning..;)

Stanley No 50

Hi folks,

I was recently given this old Stanley No 50 plane that belonged to a friend's dad.

So I set to work bringing it back into use.

Yes I still love these old tools, the history behind them and bringing them back into use.

Fettling

 Hi Folks

I hope all is well with you.

I've been back rummaging around Car boot sales. I found a few old wood planes. An Acorn smoothing plane and a couple of Stanley rebate planes, and record and Stanley spokeshaves

Here they are after a bit of Fettling, my favourite is the Stanley No 78 rebate plane.

Hey

 Hi Everyone

So I wondered if I was still live on here.

It looks like I am, yes I dropped off the radar.

After taking down my workshop then chopping off a couple of fingertips during the lockdown. They were stitched back on though . A lot less feeling in them now, but hey I'm ever so glad to have them!

I'm rebuilding I have my new space for working and I'm finding pleasure from making shavings again.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you and yours..

 Hi folks

As the title says. Enjoy your Christmas and have a good 2022.

Fingers crossed there's some stability ahead. 

Mending

 Hi folks

So you might be thinking I have been busy making lots of nice things. That wasn't the case. 

A year or so ago, I chopped the tops off two fingers in a multi tasking disaster. However a nice plastic surgeon mended them for me. 

That wasn't my finest moment for sure. I'm getting back into doing a little more now.

Some tool box restorations and I enjoy fettling old axes.

Bear with me while I try to fathom out blogger on android. 

 

Erm

 Hi old friends

Time vanishes, new paths open up and close. I hope you're all doing OK in this crazy world atm... ;b

Way Too Long

Hi folks
Yes it's been a while, way too long!! I've not been very creative at all lately.
I have been taking pictures and dabbling a little on Instagram.
Not much good to those wanting an update from the Scottish woodcrafter.
2019 is just around the corner I'm planning on making a few shavings.
I hope you all had a great Christmas and I wish you all a very happy new year...;)

Seasons Greetings

Merry Christmas ...;b

Back

Hi
Yes I know I said I'd try harder blog a bit more..
Life seems to get in the way, anyhoo I have been tinkering around.
And rattled up this chair I showed some prep for this a while back.
So here it is comlete with copper patches...;b

I know I know

Yes I should get my finger out and post more..

Made a little hat and coat rack and a couple of stools.

This is the start of a chair you'll see more of this. Hope all you readers and followers are all doing well....
I'll try to do better...;b

Thoroughly

Here is the resin table sanded to 240 grit then finished with boiled linseed oil. I thoroughly enjoyed making this..
Take a look..;b

A Lot Going On

Hi Folks
I started cutting out housings for warped boards that will become table legs a few posts back.
The table is glued up now with three colours of resin in the small holes and fissures in this Cat's Paw Oak , it has a lot going on in it this little table. It will have a single bent hazel brace thats currently in traction.

Here's where I'm at, just making the timber pop with Boiled Linseed Oil...;b

Buckled Burr

This has become one of my all time favourites. With rich dark hue of swirling buckled burr...;b

Stools With Copper

I finished off these stools today. They have a little of the copper resin filling a few gaps.
Maybe you can catch a glimpse in the sunlight..;b

Northmen Guild's Code of Ethics

Many a true word said..;b
Thanks to the original uploader!

Treasure and Cutting Housings

Well my experimenting went a stage further to mixing polyester resin and adding brass filings,and a little green colour in some of the shakes and voids in this oak. If you enlarge these two pictures, you might just see.

I also got the housings cut, to let the table leg boards into the base. With marking knife, mallet, chisel and a little bullnose plane. I set to work removing the material.

A little trip to the carboot sale (flea market) Yielded me some treasure for less than £10.00.
A very old first aid kit, with some old dressings. Along with an almost new Leatherman Charge.

Back in the workshop feeling inspired..;b

Experimenting

Hi
I've got a table to make for my cousin. I'm using the oak I was preparing a few weeks back .
It has several shakes which I'm thinking about patching with some copper dutchmen, which I'm experimenting with at the moment.
As you will see in the pictures...:b

Inspired

Yes I know it's been a while.
Maybe some of you have ran off understandably so!
The long winter is over and I feel inspired once more, So I took this oak out to see it in the sunlight and start preparing it for future projects.;b