You may have seen, on the 'Carried on my bike' or 'Caption it' threads, that I carried my scythe back from the allotment (over my shoulder while cycling
).
The reason was that it needed repairing.
I think the scythe came from a skip about 15 years ago - it had a rusted away shaft, and I bent up a heavier shaft to my prefered curve, and made handles and other parts from seat tube clamps and hardwood turned on a lathe for handles.
Part of the blade clamp snapped when I used it a few years ago - I don't often need it on the allotment, but I want it to cut down my mustard 'green manure' before rotovating it in.
I happened to have some aluminium blocks, pre bored at the 25mm diameter that will fit the tube, but I needed to saw them into 2 parts and then sculpt the blade sided 'half' to clamp the blade. Here are the bits of the broken clamp, with the aluminium block sliced across the bore, sawn and chain-drilled to start sculpting the blade 'half' of the clamp
Then I chop with a cold chisel...
...to remove the waste
After cleaning up with a file, it fits
Here's one of the handles using the seatpost clamp from a scrap frame