Confessions of a tool junkie

[pcolbeck]

oops, I may have hit order on two new saws... Nice shiny Japanese saws...

I tidied the garage at the weekend and collected together all the saws I have had for years or brought over from my dads and put them in the dump pile. Cant remember last time I bought a saw (bar a nice Japanese flush cut saw and a Bahco dove tail saw which I am keeping) must be 15 years ago. They are all rusty and blunt. Time for three new saws which should replace the lot.
Probably will buy Bahco ones.

[mrcharly-YHT]

oops, I may have hit order on two new saws... Nice shiny Japanese saws...

I tidied the garage at the weekend and collected together all the saws I have had for years or brought over from my dads and put them in the dump pile. Cant remember last time I bought a saw (bar a nice Japanese flush cut saw and a Bahco dove tail saw which I am keeping) must be 15 years ago. They are all rusty and blunt. Time for three new saws which should replace the lot.
Probably will buy Bahco ones.

You could spend a week sharpening them.

[pcolbeck]

oops, I may have hit order on two new saws... Nice shiny Japanese saws...

I tidied the garage at the weekend and collected together all the saws I have had for years or brought over from my dads and put them in the dump pile. Cant remember last time I bought a saw (bar a nice Japanese flush cut saw and a Bahco dove tail saw which I am keeping) must be 15 years ago. They are all rusty and blunt. Time for three new saws which should replace the lot.
Probably will buy Bahco ones.

You could spend a week sharpening them.

I don't think you can sharpen hardpoint saws. The teeth are hardened during manufacture. They don't sharpen like an old saw and you can reset them either the teeth just break if you try. I have a couple of vintage saws that I have lined up to attempt to resharpen one day when I get bored.

[pcolbeck]

Looking at buying a Metabo 18v drill and an impact driver. I have some railway sleeper joinery to do coming up and I really don't think my cheapo Bosch green drill/driver will cope with 200mm self tapping sleeper screws.

All the sets including both and a couple of batteries seem to be sold out. Wonder if it's another post Brexit shortage?

[trundle]

Bought my first 5-20nm torque wrench for bicycle fettling - I can now play guess the torque and give myself points for getting the right value through feel alone.

[pcolbeck]

Finally found somewhere with Matabo stock. So drill and driver incoming. Never had any 18v stuff before but after borrowing a friends to drill some holes and drive self tapping bolt into concrete a few weeks ago I am looking forward to getting these.

[SoreTween]

Bit late now but my ordinary dewalt 14V managed TIMco InDex screws up to 300mm and the 7mm x 200mm pilot holes through the first timber. Your new shiney will eat the job.

[pcolbeck]

Bit late now but my ordinary dewalt 14V managed TIMco InDex screws up to 300mm and the 7mm x 200mm pilot holes through the first timber. Your new shiney will eat the job.

The ones I borrowed a few weeks ago were Milwaukee 18v. My friend has them at home "for light work" as he cant be bothered to bring the 24v Hilti ones home from his workshop ...
He has a fabrication and metalwork installation company. I have seen one of the Hiltis in action and they are absolute beasts, very very spendy though.

[Aunt Maud]

I bought a new Vicmarc VL 300 lathe for making odd wooden shapes round. It took all day to get it into the workshop on my own and I can turn 4 foot diameter off the end and 2 foot over the bed....Should be big enough.

[T42]

Fun!  I had a crappy Ostblock lathe back in the 90s.  I did a few table-legs & such but the thing was so rough that I never went beyond that.

[robgul]

Acquired a used but pretty much as new Record 52E quick release woodworking vice - to replace the awful Chinese thing I have fixed to my work bench.   I've been staggered to find out how much the Record vices cost new nowadays.

[Aunt Maud]

I keep meaning to mount my record vice on the end of the bench, but it'd be a squeeze getting big stuff in and out of the workshop door.

Nice vices though, have you put hardwood jaws on it ?

[Aunt Maud]

Fun!  I had a crappy Ostblock lathe back in the 90s.  I did a few table-legs & such but the thing was so rough that I never went beyond that.

I'm new to turning, but I want to turn some large tondo picture frames, hence the capacity. It runs super smooth and doesn't vibrate even though it isn't bolted down.

Ive got some big turning plans afoot for next year, so I need to get up to speed by doing some large bowls for practice.

[quixoticgeek]

I spent a small fortune on an assortment of tools from fine-tools.com last weekend. DHL have thus far failed to get them out of Germany. Am hitting refresh a lot. I want my tools...

J

[robgul]

I keep meaning to mount my record vice on the end of the bench, but it'd be a squeeze getting big stuff in and out of the workshop door.

Nice vices though, have you put hardwood jaws on it ?

Not yet - I have to refettle the bench slightly to take off the old one and fit the new.

[pcolbeck]

Acquired a used but pretty much as new Record 52E quick release woodworking vice - to replace the awful Chinese thing I have fixed to my work bench.   I've been staggered to find out how much the Record vices cost new nowadays.

And you don't want a new one. They are owned by Irwin now and made abroad out of inferior metal.

[quixoticgeek]

New toys!




J

[robgul]

New toys!




J

That marking gauge looks good (Stumpy Nubs on YouTube was using one in a film this week) - I was tempted to get one.

I actually used my old-style CK Tools marking gauge this week marking a parallel cut on some cladding timber for my current garden/landscaping project.

[pcolbeck]

What are those spanners with cut outs in them ? They look interesting.

[jsabine]

Spanners with factory-fit drillium? What could possibly go wrong?

[Ashaman42]

Racing spanners I reckon.

[quixoticgeek]

https://www.fine-tools.com/lightool-spanners.html

Link to the spanners.

I got them to go on the bike tool kit, they are the right size for doing hydraulic brakes.

The marking gauge is lovely. I got it with metric graduations, which was also the only version I could find in stock anywhere. Matt Eastlea has a really good review of the marking gauge. I've also got the mortice marker adaptor for it, which is rather nice.

J

[Aunt Maud]

You should get some replacement blade for that gauge, as they chip a bit. I've got the titemark version of the same thing, they're nice gauges and are easy to use.

What are you going to make ?

[pcolbeck]

https://www.fine-tools.com/lightool-spanners.html

I do wish you hadn't shared that link, the whole site is full of ooh and aah!

[hatler]

Agh !  More porn.