I had an hour to fill this morning and spent it changing a (literal) block of rust, into a Ward & Payne hacksaw. A really lovely old saw, nice deep, original blade and such graceful curves to the body. So nice to see the blade held in under tension with just a couple of nails. Lovely! (A bit more research on the web has this saw marked down as a ‘Ward & Payne B-3 Shop Pattern Metal Saw Sheffield’). Now on eBay.
Month: November 2012
Tool chest for sale
I have another large tool chest for sale. I did a renovation a short while ago on the first one, and this other one came as part of a deal in Suffolk. NOW SOLD!
College course: Day 5
Good progress today on this little cabinet. The side panels are pretty much together, just awaiting the boards that will be cut to size and enclosed by the framing. Next time I’ll be cutting the board stock and will start thinking about making rails that connect the cabinet together, one side to the other, and getting this thing standing on it’s own feet.
I started out with setting up a router, to cut the rebates for the boards in the legs and also the cross rails. If you have ever read the blog before, you’ll know I try to do everything with hand tools. But, as in previous days, I need to take the opportunity to learn the set-up on these machines, as I’ll no doubt need to use them again at some point.
New tool list
I’ve just refreshed my eBay list with a number of new vintage tools. Go to the seller ‘hackneytools’ to see what’s up. There are two lovely infilled planes and a host of other things. At some point I’ll be putting up a sales page on my home site, watch this space.