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Clockmaker’s or Watchmaker’s Bow Lathe Plans
Also called a Turn or Fiddle Lathe and after several years and numerous requests I finally am finishing them and they will be ready for delivery soon and you can purchase them now. Order Here I...
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The Painter, Gilder, And Varnisher’s Guide – 1850 reprint from Toolemera
Gary Roberts over at Toolemera has reproduced this wonderful work from the mid nineteenth century. Having decided to redo some of his title covers, he asked me to do a drawing for the cover of this...
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30 day e-pox-ee or traditional Cutler’s Cement
As many of you know, and all of you should, that I don’t use modern things when it comes to doing traditional woodworking. I don’t like modern white or yellow glues as their manufacture is extremely...
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Shepherds’ Compleat Early Nineteenth Century Woodworker, Hide Glue –...
I am now offering my first 3 books together to save over $12.00 Domestic Shipping and save over $20.00 on International Shipping. You can order Here. Stephen
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Be Careful what you include in your pictures, Full Gnomon Disclosure
I recently put an item on an auction site and as usual I included in the photograph of the item my gnomon for scale. Six inch long piece of holly with ebony 1″ squares. This is not the item but it is...
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The Worlds simplest Bar Clamp
If there is a simpler bar clamp, I have never seen one as simple as this one. I have wanted one of these clamps for a long time and now I have one. Made of 1/2″ square mild steel it has a reach of 3...
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Dyeing Maple with Iron Buff
Iron buff is an interesting dye, the fact that the liquid is clear and can still instill a blue-grey color to hard maple and a green color to soft maple. So it is also an indicator to determine if the...
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Card Scraper Wallet
I have been meaning to make one of these for a while. I had recently admonished a friend for not having a wallet for his scrapers, then later realized I didn’t have one for my larger card scrapers. I...
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The CIRCLE Of The MECHANICAL ARTS, Thomas Martin 1813
Well it looks like Gary Roberts has done it again, bringing back for our enjoyment another traditional title from the nineteenth century. Toolemera is offering this large volume of Thomas Martins opus...
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Roubo Iron Bar Clamp
Well what do you know, it’s a Roubo! Here is part of the page in Andre Roubo’s work from the 18th century. Even shows the clamp extension which I first mentioned in Shepherds’ Compleat Early...
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Polychrome American Spinning Wheel
This one sets a record. The last spinning wheel [See Montana Spinning Wheel] I had in my shop was there for about 15 months, a couple of months for the repairs and over a year in storage. This one I...
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Felibien Iron Bar Clamp
Although I am not sure how to pronounce the name, he is a precursor of Roubo and published his work on Architecture [slightly misleading name] in 1690! This style of clamp keeps getting older and...
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Vise upgrade
I built this particular vise back in 2002 and it has been in constant use since that time. The photograph below was taken in 2005 and it had seen some use since then and was in need of an upgrade. I...
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It is a Glue Pot, not a Cast Iron Ink Well
Went with a friend yesterday to a local Antique Mall and had not intended to make a purchase. I did examine a pair of scissor type candle wick trimmer but determined it was plate and had a couple of...
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L, F & C Cast Iron Glue Pot and Hide Glue Book for Sale
Not to be confused with a cast iron ink well, this is actually a double boiler glue pot from Landers, Frary & Clark. This particular glue pot is the very one illustrated on Page 30 of Hide Glue –...
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Hand Forged Glue Scraper
Master Blacksmith Mark Schramm made this specialty glue scraper for a friend that makes wooden blanks for snowboards and skies. He has a rack of specialized bar clamps to clamp the blanks of aspen...
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The Complete Cabinet Maker And Upholsterer’s Guide – J. Stokes 1829
Gary Roberts over at Toolemera has done it again and reproduced a fine tome from the nineteenth century. The book has many full color plates, hand colored engravings and Mr. Roberts has reproduced...
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Scorching Sand
I am in need of some scorching sand for heat shading veneer and for hardening goose writing quills. I got a couple of cups of sand from a friend, it was left over from an out door cook oven. It is...
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Double Hacksaw – 1749
I have posted about this hacksaw before during a workshop with the Nevada WoodChucks, and thought I would post the original influence. Charles Plummier’s L’art de Tourner published in 1749, this is a...
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Rocking Chair restoration
This will be the first in a series covering the restoration of this late 19th century rocking chair that belonged to my friends grandmother. He remembers the chair as brown so we will be removing the...
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