Thanks. I built a pell for whacking with my sword, and put an old 'propane gas tank' helm on it for a head. Every once in a while when I see it out of the...
After having looked at all the photos, it's obvious that you have both superior skills and a heck of a lot nicer workshop than I do. Fantastic stuff. I...
This turned up on another list I'm on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4746vgMS-w It's about timber-frame construction and log cabin building the old Norse...
Thanks. Watched most of it and am in great envy of the skill levels of the craftsmen. As a tangent, have you ever seen the PBS documentary about the guy who...
Turn your PC into a money making machine! http://vallartabanderas.com/towes.php?abonumber=257 Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:34:39 ______________ So she run on:Lize, hurry...
The title pretty much says it all. I have smallish pieces about the size of a sheet of paper (a few are long and narrow). What can I do with them? I hate to...
Host a "Make-it Take-it" day to make boxes for newcomers in your area. Lucien ... The title pretty much says it all. I have smallish pieces about the size of a...
If you want something you can use in the shop (if you use power tools); PUSH STICKS... I don’t know what you call these but, sheets to prevents drill bits...
Greetings Scot, How about: * push/pull hooks for oven racks * small hinged cover lap desks for scribes * wooden lantern frames * painted shields for kids play...
... A Reverence for Wood Picked it up many years ago, I like it. It's not any kind of a how-to or pattern book, it's more of a passing glance into various...
I keep pieces like that in a box near my workbench. They get used for all kinds of things: small projects shims, reenforcements, etc jigs, set-up spacers, etc ...
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Do you need any jigs for particular projects? 3/4 is stiff enough, and those pieces are a size that often goes into such things. Band saws and table saws can...
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... I like his _Museum of Early American Tools_ and his _Diary of an Early American Boy_ the best. His history isn't always right--he sometimes talks about...
So now I find that Roy Underhill has built not one but two spring-pole lathes with an under-slung, short pole and a walking beam. Both are based on 18th...
Di Vinci drew a fly wheel lathe I think..... On Nook tablet copy and paste options limited..... so you are going to have to look it up youself, sorry ... ...
References on period lathes tend to be a little thin. Besides Da Vinci's illustrations, which as I recall are spring-pole and great-wheel lathes. There is a...
Greetings, "The Book of Trades (Das Standebuch)" by Hans Sachs, published in 1568 shows several woodcuts with lathes in them. One for the turner, one for the...
The pewterer and the bellmaker in the V&A online version both show great wheel lathes, continuous rotation, requiring an assistant to provide the power....
Due to guilds the lathes of a pewterer and a bellmaker are unrelated to woodworking. I know of no refferances to a woodworkers lathe being anything other then...
... Well... Stuart King, in his history of the lathe (http://www.stuartking.co.uk/index.php/history-of-the-lathe-part-two-continuous-rotation/ ) disagrees with...
Lord Rhys ... Despite this, the complicated technology of the lathe itself transcends a single guild/profession. There is a period depiction of a lens-grinders...
I looked at Stuart King's history, and while I agree with a good part of what he says, I don't see any sources. At one point he says, "Leonardo is often...
